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HomeMy WebLinkAboutROCKY MOUNTAIN BATTERY & RECYCLING PUD - PRELIMINARY & FINAL - 51-89 - - SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATIONDeveid'"hent Services Office or the Director -n Citv of Fort Collins February 20, 1990 Mr. Dean R. Hoag Rocky Mountain Battery Service 1475 N. College Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80524 Dear Mr. Dean: s� This is to follow-up on our meeting of February 19, 1990 concerning your property at the above referenced address. Based on my review of your letter of January 31, the staff response to your letter and our conversation, I believe the staff advice to pursue the PUD, as opposed to rezoning, was well intended and achieved the results you expected, within the time frame anticipated. The additional costs you incurred to proceed with the PUD appear to involve architectural and site plan expenses. These are not unusual given the nature of the PUD process. Had you proceeded with the rezoning, in lieu of the PUD approach, the rezoning question would not have reached the City Council for second reading until February 6, 1990 and would not have become a reality until ten days later. The PUD process avoided having to go before City Council and was concluded by December 18, 1989. As indicated in the staff report, a copy of which you received, there was not full staff support for the rezoning approach. This was based on questions of "spot -zoning" and the probability that the Planning and Zoning Board could add to the rezoning the condition that all subsequent development of your property be reviewed as a PUD. This is referred to as the "PUD condition" and is typically added to zoning districts that are newly annexed into the City. Had this occurred, you would have been required to submit your warehouse plans using the PUD process after the rezoning. This would have delayed further your plan by as much as seven weeks following the rezoning process. In this event the same plan submittals would have been required. Taking the above into account, I would conclude that staff advice and your decision to pursue the PUD process saved you considerable time and uncertainty relative to a rezoning decision favorable to your request. 300 LaPorte Avenue • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (303) 221-6601 Dean R. Hoag February 20, 1990 Page 2 By City Code we are not empowered unexpected expenses incurred by the the fees were not out of the ordinary. • to reduce or waive fees to offset development processes. In this case At the present time, we are reviewing the City's PUD process in order to make it more customer friendly while protecting community values and quality of life expectations. The problems you described relative to the North College Avenue Corridor, in my opinion, warrant a closer look. We will proceed to review current development regulations and fees to see if the North College Avenue Corridor is at an economic development disadvantage to other areas of the City. Either myself or one of the development services staff members will be in contact with you to coordinate a meeting date, time and place. The objective of the meeting is to review the problems you and others are experiencing and to identify a course of action to improve the attractiveness of the Corridor for new development. With your help, as well as the help from other businesses and commercial real estate interests, we may be able to identify problems and potential solutions that could result in improved investment and development opportunities in the area. We look forward to working with you and others on what could become a very exciting, challenging and beneficial neighborhood improvement program. If you should have any questions, please call me. Sincerely, James M. Davis Director of Development Services JMD/dg cc: Steven C. Burkett, City Manager Dan Eckles, CCIM, Realtec Commercial Real Estate