HomeMy WebLinkAboutCITY OF FORT COLLINS VEHICLE STORAGE BUILDINGS - PDP - 23-03A - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - PLANNING OBJECTIVESK
Circulation:
Site will be accessed from two .drive ways along Wood Street. There will be no
parking of personal employee vehicles on site. All employee parking will occure
at the facility across Wood Street.
Maintenance:
• The site will be maintained by the City .ofFort Collins
(fli) Description of rationale behind assumptions and choices made by the applicant
The project is considered an accessory use to the existing City of Fort Collins
Wood Street Utilities Facility. Zoning considers the character of the site as
industrial and the site buffering and layout design reacts to the industrial
standards in the Land Use Code.
-(iv) Name of the Project
• City of Fort Collins Vehicle Storage Buildings
(vfl) How Conflicts Between land Uses are Being Avoided
Ample buffering along the south boundary of the site is provided to transition the
development into the residential area to the south.
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Statement of Planning Objectives
City`ot Fort Collins Vehicle Storage Buildings
The Fort Collins Vehicle Storage Facility is a development consisting of one heated
vehicle storage garage and two unheated garages. The goal of this project is to be the
first vehicle storage facility to achieve a,LEED`certification. In achieving this gooi,,many
green building practices will be used including maximizing day lighting, reduction of
energy use, use of recycled materials, xeriscape plantings, and several more green
building practice's intended to establish a higher environmental standard for vehicle
storage facilities. The following is a statement of planning objectives.
(1) Statement of appropriate City Plan Principals and Policies
The proposed Utilities Vehicle Storage is consistent with the City's Comprehensive
Plan as per the following
The location of the proposed Vehicle Storage facility and the Operation
Service Maintenance facility was chosen for its close proximity to the Wood
Street facilities including the streets, fleet service and building repair facilities.
Both of.the Fort Collins Comprehensive Plan Policies T-9 and Env-1. call for
reduced vehicle trips to ease traffic congestion and'to promote'befter air.
quality. By placing the proposed vehicle storage facility and the operations
facility adjacent to existing vehicle maintenance and operation facilities, the
vehicular trips city employees would need to make to access the proposed
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(ii) Open Space, Buffering, Landscaping, Circulation, Transition Areas, Wetlands and
Natural Areas
Open Space:
r The existing detention pond area at the north end of the site will be utililized for a
water quality treatment pond
Bufferina:
• To buffer the site from adjacent residential, A generous landscape buffer is
provided on the southern edge of the site. The existing 3 foot berm along the
south property line will be retained to further enhance the buffer area.
• A 23 foot landscape buffer from the sidewalk is also provided along the wood
street property line.
Landscaping:
Other than the existing irrigated turf being retained on the berm along the
southern property line and within portions of the right of way, the landscape
design will incorporate xericscape design principles.
Native shrubs and trees as well as perennials and grasses will be planted in the
buffer zones between West Vine and Wood Streets and the development. These
areas will have limited irrigation.
Inside the property native trees and non irrigated seed will be planted. This area
will only use irrigation during establishment.
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