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From: Spencer Thompson
To: Brittany Korthauer
Date: 2/23/2007 11:32:54 AM
Subject: Re: PIP for Edelweiss Gartens Ph 12
well we run along Rock Prairie Road and the landscaping and irrigation at RPR and Rio Grand, though it
looks great, has rendered the sidewalk unusable
the plan is fine
>>>On 2/23/2007 at 10:59 am, Brittany Korthauer wrote:
Well, you are on the list as somebody to receive these emails....so act like your somebody. Just let me
know if you see any problems!! Thanks for being somebody or at least acting like your somebody.
Brittany Korthauer
Staff Assistant-Planning & Development
City of College Station
P.O. Box 9960
College Station, TX 77842
979.764.6252
"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like you do when
nobody's watching."
>>>Spencer Thompson 02/23/07 10:55 AM >>>
Ms Brittany,
I know that I probably seem like I'm somebody, I know that I probably look like I'm somebody and I'm
pretty sure that I sometimes act like I'm somebody...
... but really I'm not....
... so when you send stuff down here like this solely to me.... you're sending it to somebody who's not
somebody.
So, let me know what somebody needs to approve this and I'll go get somebody for you and have
somebody sign it.
thx
st
>>> On 2/23/2007 at 8:46 am, Brittany Korthauer wrote:
Please review and fax signed application to x3496.
Thanks
Brittany Korthauer
Staff Assistant-Planning & Development
City of College Station
P.O. Box 9960
College Station, TX 77842
979.764.6252
"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like you do when
nobody's watching."
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" .., CITY OF COI I FGE STATION
Planning dr Development Service
1101 Texas Avenue, P.O. Box 9960
College Station, Texas 77842
Phone 979.764.3570 / Fax 979.764.3496
MEMORANDUM
March 1, 2007 (see additional planning review comment#3)
TO: Steve Arden, fax: 846-0652
FROM: Grant Wencel, Staff Planner
SUBJECT: EAGLE AVE. & KLEIN LN (PIP) Private Improvement in Public ROW Permit
Edelwiess Gartens, Phase 12, Landscape/ Irrigation Plan
Staff reviewed the above-mentioned plan as requested. The following page is a list of staff
review comments detailing items that need to be addressed. Please address the comments
and submit the following information for further staff review:
Three (3) revised Landscape / Irrigation Plans
Please note that the Easement Dedication Sheet and necessary documents are required prior
to the issuance of a building permit. If there are comments that you are not addressing with the
revised site plan, please attach a letter explaining the details. If you have any questions or need
additional information, please call me at 979.764.3570.
Attachments: Staff review comments
pc:
Case file #07-00500037
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Grant Wencel - Fwd: Staff Review PIP 07-00500037 Page 1
From: Josh Norton
To: Wencel, Grant
Date: 3/5/2007 11:39 am
Subject: Fwd: Staff Review PIP 07-00500037
>>>"Steve Arden"<s.d.ardensuddenlink.net>03/04/07 2:09 PM>>>
Josh,
In response to the engineering comments:
#1.An estimate of the future relocation of improvements I would presume to be$16,000,which is the same amount we expect to
spend for installation of the
streetscape and the amount of the total valuation on the original application.
#4.Comments in City planning meetings through the years are always consistent with the desirability of streetscape which we
have attempted to install through
the last 12 to 15 years.We are the people that planted several miles of streetscape in Edelweiss Estates and Edelweiss
Gartens,partially to meet the
City's preference but also to hide the miles of cedar fencing. Due to the hierarchy of street sizing(which I am not criticizing),
College Station has an inordinate
number of homes backing to collector streets.The best solution to make those long stretches of fence visually acceptable is
to cover them with vegetative
screening.
Unfortunately every other year the City creates a new rule that if implemented would preclude the streetscape. It would be
impossible to deposit another$16,000,
raising the total cost to$32,000,with the City for the possibility of replacing plants if utility repairs are necessary.We must
again ask for a waver to a rule that
was probably intended for a different type of PIP.
Although there are utilities immediately adjacent in an easement within the Edelweiss Gartens Phase 12 subdivision,there are
no utilities under the proposed
plantings.
It is understood that in the event that plants are removed or damaged for any reason,the Edelweiss Gartens HOA will have to
repair or replace the plants at
the sole expense of the HOA.This is no different than existing streetscape adjacent to Phase 1 along Victoria, Phase 6 along
both Victoria and Eagle, Phase 4
along both sides of Brandenburg Lane,and Phase 8 along Eagle.
Similarly,this is the same request and understanding for the HOA to maintain plantings as is in several Phases of Edelweiss
Estates.Only once that I am
aware,in the last 15 years has the was it necessary for the City to make utility repairs under HOA plants within a street ROW.
When underground electrical work
was completed along the side of Edelweiss St.,the crew literally,simply stuck the yaupon back in the ground.The HOA did a
little clean up but the plants
survived. No cost to anyone.Not bad history for either the City or the HOA,.although the HOA was ready to bear an expense if
it occurred.
If there is more to obtaining the requested waver, please let me know the route or contact people.
Your helpfulness is appreciated.
Steve Arden
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(1 i 01 C&_)LLt;ci;S IA i ION
Planning 6Development Services
1101 Texas Avenue, P.O. Box 9960
College Station, Texas 77842
Phone 979.764.3570 / Fax 979.764.3496
MEMORANDUM
TO: Steve Arden, fax: 846-0652
FROM: Grant Wencel, Staff Planner
SUBJECT: EAGLE AVE. & KLEIN LN (PIP) Private Improvement in Public ROW Permit
Edelwiess Gartens, Phase 12, Landscape/ Irrigation Plan
Staff reviewed the above-mentioned plan as requested. The following page is a list of staff
review comments detailing items that need to be addressed. Please address the comments
and submit the following information for further staff review:
Three (3) revised Landscape / Irrigation Plans
Please note that the Easement Dedication Sheet and necessary documents are required prior
to the issuance of a building permit. If there are comments that you are not addressing with the
revised site plan, please attach a letter explaining the details. If you have any questions or need
additional information, please call me at 979.764.3570.
Attachments: Staff review comments
pc:
Case file #07-00500037
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