Holiday Open House December 15th at Ramada Inn Neighborhood Meeting 5

Holiday Open House
December 15th at Ramada Inn
Neighborhood Meeting 5:30
Open House from 6:30
Hors-D’oeuvres and Bar

Airpark Village is in the process of amending the E Mulberry Corridor Plan. So far, the surrounding property owners (255) have given this site a basic development structure with three key decisions. They are:

1. The Flood Channel Alignment -The poll on alternatives came to 36 for new western alignment and 20 voted in favor of the old eastern alignment. (http://www.airparkvillage.com/Polling/default.htm)
2. The Road Network- A spine road (Parkway) was chosen by 34 and the loop alternative drew only 10 preferences. (http://www.airparkvillage.com/Development/Roads.htm). The access points into the neighborhood were discussed and are shown under the above hyperlink. Cross roads are Cul-de-Sacs.
3. The Land Use tally is- Main Street 23, Campus 10, Village 12, No Residential 9. This is a clear indication that adding residential is preferred in 84% of respondents.

Main Street Land Uses
This land use would be dominated by employment and commercial (50%) but have significant residential (40%) and marginal industrial uses (10%). This “Main Street” example would involve 10 to 30 local developers in competition with one another. It would use a Grid Pattern with multi-story buildings. It could also accommodate civic and entertainment uses.
It works well with the Parkway concept and will produce a setting that people are comfortable with.

Why We Included Residential and Reduced The Amount of Industrial?
There are already four residential neighborhoods nearby on the north side of the runway, so it is already a precedent. Residential use is also the most active market in Colorado. There has not been enough demand to in-fill the existing designated industrial areas in the neighborhood over the past twenty years. More industrial in this redevelopment will keep the values for industrial uses low and will cause much of this redevelopment to remain vacant for some time. Integrating residential into the mix of appropriate land uses is certainly a key component to balanced growth of the Fort Collins community.

Here are examples of proposed Densities within three categories below:
See: http://www.airparkvillage.com/Development/Density for illustrations)

Suburban .5 FAR The amount of building square footage is half as much as the amount of lot square footage. It can be configured as a one story building on half the site, a two story building on a quarter of the site and so forth. This is the least intense of the three choices, and is closest to the intensity of the existing industrial park.
Urban 1.0 FAR The amount of building square footage is exactly the same as the amount of lot square footage. It can be configured as a two story building on half the site, a 4 story building on a quarter of the site and so forth. This would be similar to the building intensity along College Ave in Old Town Fort Collins. This configuration allows for parking and buffering to occur on the rear of the property thereby protecting existing industrial uses.
Core 1.5 FAR The amount of building square footage is 1.5 times the amount of lot square footage. It can be configured as a three story building on half the site, a six story building on a quarter of the site, and so forth. This would be similar to the intensity of the block containing the Northern Hotel or the block containing the Empire Hotel in downtown Fort Collins.

Vote for what you feel is the most appropriate density that enhances neighborhood vitality
(http://www.projectpolling.com/AirParkVillage/DensityPoll.asp)