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<br />their development from the Lafayette Street right-of-way. This is a critical piece to developing a <br />project of this size and scope. Ms. Fickbohm wanted a design that would maintain the historical <br />flavor while improving the appearance and develop a continued interest in the Main Street area. <br />The building proposed is 5,000 square feet, she intends to utilize 1,500 square feet on the main <br />floor, the rest of the building will primarily be occupied by small one to two professional tenants. <br /> <br />Comments were received back from the City on February 14, 2000, and there were no major <br />revisions at that time. The only comment from the Fire Marshall was that she should negotiate a <br />formalized agreement with the Fire District for cost associated with the shared maintenance of the <br />concrete access driveway on Lafayette Street. At that point there was no reference to expanding <br />the driveway beyond 24 feet. At this time she has not been able to reach an agreement with the <br />Fire Board. She has also tried to negotiate access to the PUD from the North side and was <br />unable to do that with the neighbor to the North. The only issues in contention at this time are <br />the issues being raised by the Fire Board. <br /> <br />Bill Fox, Transplan Associates, 1375 Walnut Street, Suite 211, Boulder CO. Ms. Fickbohm <br />contracted Transplan to do a traffic study for the proposed development. Mr. Fox briefly went <br />through the findings. Mr. Fox stated that when there is no Fire Department activity this <br />application would take an offset driveway that is somewhere between 30 and 50 feet offset from <br />Lafayette Street and align it with Lafayette Street. That is typically a good thing to do from a <br />traffic access perspective. When there is Fire Department activity in the inbound condition as Fire <br />Fighters are arriving on to the site, there is the concern that as they come to this site they’re <br />distracted and headed for the fire station itself. His only observation there would be that this <br />intersection would require the same amount of care that any other intersection required on that <br />path to the firehouse. In the case of this driveway where it’s 24 feet wide now and that access is <br />occurring in the 24-foot wide concrete driveway the proposal is to make it 36 feet wide. If there <br />is an outbound car on the north edge of this widened driveway, there is still more concrete <br />pavement than what exists today to be used by inbound fire fighters. There is plenty of room to <br />accommodate that inbound movement even if there is outbound traffic at the same time. <br /> <br />Another concern would be the return of the fire trucks inbound in to the driveway circulating <br />around back. They have used turning templates to plot a turning path of a fire truck as it access <br />this driveway from either direction, recognizing that they are coming into a 25 foot wide <br />driveway. If there is outbound traffic in a 36 foot wide space, as proposed, there should be no <br />conflict whatsoever in terms of the ability to maneuver a fire truck into the driveway to get <br />around back as is currently done with the narrower driveway. There are advantages of aligning <br />the driveways for most of the periods when there is no fire activity and Mr. Fox does not believe <br />that with the added roof of the driveway that is proposed that aligning the driveway, making use <br />of that right-of-way for two purposes instead one represents a significant safety issue that is any <br />different than any other intersection nearby, in or out, for the fire department. <br /> <br />Commission Questions: <br /> <br /> <br /> 10 <br /> <br />