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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCITY OF FORT COLLINS VEHICLE STORAGE BUILDINGS - PDP - 23-03A - REPORTS - PLANNING OBJECTIVESCirculation: s 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 .of,F.orf Collins (iti) 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 (vti) 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. �fnfomnnf of PIMMMInn nk;i 8vice P,,,,o') ^f I Statement of Planning Objectives `Cit bf Fort Collins Vehicle Storage Buildings The Fort Collins Vehicle Storage Facility is a development consistingof 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 goai,•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 fapilities will bg grggtly redoggd, (II) Open Space, Buffering, Landscaping, Circulation, Transition Areas, Wetlands and Natural Areas Open Space: t The existing detention pond area at the north end of the site will be utiiiiized 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. S#n#cmcn# n# Plnnninn r)hicr#ivice Pnnn 1 of >