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Home My WebLink AboutDRB1300790, JJN17'Y 07-EVEDWYAMENT �';estg �view Boar; ��n Re ` I 71 F 0 S IV IIDepai'lment allif Communit, IIDevelopment", 75 South ii ,'0 n a , Vail, CoilbiraAaii 816111,57" t : 970.479.2.139 fax 970.479.24-52, web. www. iiiil Project Name: WOODS RESIDENCE SEPARATION REQUEST DRB Number: DRB130079 Project Description: SEEKING PERMISSION TO SEPARATE THE PRIMARY UNIT FROM THE SECONDARY UNIT. Participants: OWNER CAROL WOODS SCHMIDT QUALIFIE 03/26/2013 3901 S GILPIN ST CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, CO 80113 APPLICANT CAROL WOODS SCHMIDT QUALIFIE 03/26/2013 3901 S GILPIN ST CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, CO 80113 Project Address: 401 BEAVER DAM CR VAIL Location: Legal Description: Lot: 2 Block: 4 Subdivision: VAIL VILLAGE FILING 3 Parcel Number: 2101 - 071 - 1100 -2 Comments: Motion By: Kjesbo Second By: Gillette Vote: 5 -0 -0 Conditions: BOARD /STAFF ACTION Action: DENIED Date of Approval: 04/22/2013 Planner: Warren Campbell DRB Fee Paid: $20.00 m I D 75 South Frontage Road TOWN OF VAIL MAR 25 2013 Vail, CO 81657 Tel: 970 -479 -2128 C C 1 ( '15D6& www.vailgov.com TOWN OF VA�. Development Review Coordinator Application for Design Review Separation Request General Information: This application is required for requesting separation of a dwelling unit or garage from the primary structure. The following Vail Town Code sections that are applicable to this application can be found at vailgov.com under Vail Information — Town Code On -line: See Section 14 -10 -6, prohibiting the separation of dwell- ing units and /or garages from the primary structure. Significant site constraints must be present to allow a separation. All projects requiring design review must receive approval prior to submitting a building permit application. An applica- tion for Design Review cannot be accepted until all required information is received by the Community Development De- partment, as outlined in the submittal requirements. The project may also need to be reviewed by the Town Council and or the Planning and Environmental Commission. Design review approval lapses unless a building permit is issued and construction commences within one year of the approval. Fee: $0 Single Family Q Duplex Multi - Family Commercial Description of the Request: Permission to separate the primary unit from the secondary unit. Please read the attached letter describing the unique circumstance on our lot. Thank you. Physical Address: 401 Beaver Dam Circle, Vail. CO Parcel Number: 2101 - 071 -11 -002 (Contact Eagle Co. Assessor at 970 - 328 -8640 for parcel no.) Property Owner: Carol Woods Schmidt Qualified Personal Residential Trust II Mailing Address: 3901 South Gilpin Street, Englewood, CO 80113 Phone: 303 - 761 -6842 Owner's Signature: Primary Contact/ Owner Representative: Carol Schmidt Mailing Address: 3901 South Gilpin Street, Englewood. CO 80113 30q_7F1 _r,AA9 E -Mail: carolwschmidt @msn.com For Office Use Only: Cash CC: Visa / MC Last 4 CC # Fee Paid: Meeting Date: Planner: Zoning: Location of the Proposal: Lot: Block: it Fax: Phone: 303 - 788 -0128 Exp. Date: Auth # Check # Received From: E• 1 Subdivision: Land Use: Carol Schmidt 3901 South Gilpin Street Englewood, CO 80113 March 22, 2013 Community Development Department Town of Vail 75 South Frontage Road Vail, CO 81657 Attn: David Rhoades, Development Review Coordinator Re: 401 Beaver Dam Circle request to separate units Dear Members of the Design Review Board, The sole purpose of my request to separate is to save an extraordinary stand of spruce trees. We have been in Vail since the 60's and own one of the few original Vail chalets which badly needs renovation. This project is not speculative or for development. It is to provide living space for each of our two adult children and their families. We have contracted with Gordon Pierce's architectural firm, Resort Design Architects, and The George Schaeffer Construction Co. We are not maxing out the GRFA. We hope to build into the natural beauty of our lot, to Vail standards, what will be an asset to both our family and our neighborhood. Our lot is a unique 5 sided shape. One half of the lot is barren where the house is located and the other side of the lot is heavily forested. Unfortunately, there is no choice but to build into the forest. We will have to cut down trees; however, we will be able to save some beautiful spruce if we are not required to build a connecting unit. We must cut down more trees in order to build the connector, plus the disruption in digging the connector foundation will damage the root system of nearby trees, weakening them so that they will become more susceptible to the spruce beetle and some may eventually die. Also for this reason, we are planning to extensively renovate the existing house rather than tearing it down and digging a new foundation. Over the years we have sprayed and protected these trees. They are dense and healthy, will soften the look of new construction and are far more attractive than any connector; beautiful to look at from the open space below the house and the gondola above. Building one large duplex and not separating the units would take out all of the trees. Necessarily cutting down so many trees is killing me and that is why we are separating the units and why I am writing this letter in an attempt to save any trees we can. Englemann spruce grow to 100` to 200` in height and attain an age of 500 -600 years. Found in moist areas below 9300 feet, they are one of the most important forest trees in the Rocky Mountain forest ecosystem. The current building code is temporal. To cut down these huge irreplaceable spruce that are hundreds of years old is irreversible. I am attaching some very amateur photos I took to illustrate our lot and an architect's conceptual drawing to illustrate the connecting unit. Thank you for your service to the Town of Vail and taking your time to consider my heartfelt plea. Since I Carol Schmidt Carol Schmidt March 22, 2013 David Rhoades Development Review Coordinator Dear David. Thank you for talking with me in your office earlier this week and thank you for emailing me the Separation Request form. As we discussed, I am sending a personal request for separation now. Our architect will submit the entire project to DRB at a later date. Tom Frye, our architect, did suggest that I ask you if you could squeeze my request into the April 4th DRB meeting if there is time. Their guidance would be helpful in going forward with the architectural drawings. If this is not convenient, then please submit this for the April 18th meeting as I anticipated. I appreciate your help. 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GARBE 2289 CHAMONIX LANE #3 VAI L, COLORADO 81657 APRIL 17, 2013 Town of Vail Design Review Committee RE: Schmidt Residence on Beaver Dam Road Ladies and Gentlemen: This letter is submitted to you to support the principles of the design for the proposed project on the referenced property. I am a 23 -year resident of Vail. I believe the preservation of the forest and tree areas in and surrounding the Town of Vail is one of the great natural assets of our valley. The loss in recent years of numerous trees on the north side of the Vail Mountain make the preservation of the remaining trees, particularly the old growth, even more critical. I firmly believe that efforts by individual citizens to preserve old growth trees and natural wetlands should be supported. The Town of Vail guidelines for site development include these two features as part of its criteria. As General Manager of the Eagle Valley Water and Sanitation District for several years and as a Project Manager for a local engineering firm, I had the opportunity to work very closely with Jim and Carolyn Schmidt on an environmentally sensitive project for the relocation of a major sewer main. They demonstrated a strong desire to be environmentally correct and supported the best solution for all parties including minimizing the impact on the adjacent Town of Vail wetlands. Their sensitivity to potentially damaging impacts of the project and their willingness to make an extra effort to preserve and / or enhance the existing conditions on their property was accomplished at their own expense. I encourage the Committee to strongly consider a solution to the proposed new construction that has the least impact on the removal of the existing old growth trees. What has taken nature a hundred years to produce, we should not take away to fulfill a design issue; a variance or waiver to the design is more appropriate. /s/ Warren M. Garbe DRB April 17, 2013 DRB130079 Schmidt Residence Separation Request 14 -10 -6: RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT: A. The purpose of this section is to ensure that residential development be designed in a manner that creates an architecturally integrated structure with unified site development. Dwelling units and garages shall be designed within a single structure, except as set forth in subsection B of this section, with the use of unified architectural and landscape design. A single structure shall have common roofs and building walls that create enclosed space substantially above grade. Unified architectural and landscape design shall include, but not be limited to, the use of compatible building materials, architectural style, scale, roof forms, massing, architectural details, site grading and landscape materials and features. B. The presence of significant site constraints may permit the physical separation of units and garages on a site. The determination of whether or not a lot has significant site constraints shall be made by the design review board. "Significant site constraints" shall be defined as natural features of a lot such as stands of mature trees, natural drainages, stream courses and other natural water features, rock outcroppings, wetlands, other natural features, and existing structures that may create practical difficulties in the site planning and development of a lot. Slope may be considered a physical site constraint that allows for the separation of a garage from a unit. It shall be the applicant's responsibility to request a determination from the design review board as to whether or not a site has significant site constraints before final design work on the project is presented. This determination shall be made at a conceptual review of the proposal based on review of the site, a detailed survey of the lot and a preliminary site plan of the proposed structure(s). C. The residential development may be designed to accommodate the development of dwelling units and garages in more than one structure if the design review board determines that significant site constraints exist on the lot. The use of unified architectural and landscape design as outlined herein shall be required for the development. In addition, the design review board may require that one or more of the following common design elements such as fences, walls, patios, decks, retaining walls, walkways, landscape elements, or other architectural features be incorporated to create unified site development. 14 -10 -6: RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT: A. The purpose of this section is to ensure that residential development be designed in a manner that creates an architecturally integrated structure with unified site development. Dwelling units and garages shall be designed within a single structure, except as set forth in subsection B of this section, with the use of unified architectural and landscape design. A single structure shall have common roofs and building walls that create enclosed space substantially above grade. Unified architectural and landscape design shall include, but not be limited to, the use of compatible building materials, architectural style, scale, roof forms, massing, architectural details, site grading and landscape materials and features. B. The presence of significant site constraints may permit the physical separation of units and garages on a site. The determination of whether or not a lot has significant site constraints shall be made by the design review board. "Significant site constraints" shall be defined as natural features of a lot such as stands of mature trees, natural drainages, stream courses and other natural water features, rock outcroppings, wetlands, other natural features, and existing structures that may create practical difficulties in the site planning and development of a lot. Slope may be considered a physical site constraint that allows for the separation of a garage from a unit. It shall be the applicant's responsibility to request a determination from the design review board as to whether or not a site has significant site constraints before final design work on the project is presented. This determination shall be made at a conceptual review of the proposal based on review of the site, a detailed survey of the lot and a preliminary site plan of the proposed structure(s). C. The residential development may be designed to accommodate the development of dwelling units and garages in more than one structure if the design review board determines that significant site constraints exist on the lot. The use of unified architectural and landscape design as outlined herein shall be required for the development. In addition, the design review board may require that one or more of the following common design elements such as fences, walls, patios, decks, retaining walls, walkways, landscape elements, or other architectural features be incorporated to create unified site development. (Ord. 29(2005) § 82: Ord., 9 -21 -1999) �( I -Ae S-,te, Carol Schmidt April 17, 2013 Request to separate units 401 Beaver Dam Circle, Vail, CO Design Review Board SIGNIFICANT SITE CONSTRAINTS 14 -10 -6 B Residential Development Stands of Mature Trees Engelmann spruce are one of the most important forest trees in the Rocky Mountain forest ecosystem. They are found in moist areas below 9300 feet, grow to 100 to 200 feet in height and attain an age of 500 to 600 years. Wetlands Please refer to the wetlands delineation on the attached wetlands boundary survey. Existing Structures The existing structures are shown on the wetlands boundary survey. UNIFIED SITE DEVELOPMENT 14 -10 -6 C Residential Development Architectural and Landscape Design Common design elements will be apparent in the architecture and landscape plans. The garage will be connected to the existing house and the garage of the new unit will be connected to that unit. Additional unification may be achieved with walls. pno,jj 61 �-Ae- v„OO li ca rtf el-f' fl q, 17 13 V 11 (Z) N W S ##4 Rebar LOT 2 40 20 0 40 md� I Scale in Feet &LAI (3 9 Found Cap #6821 Wet'l -and /'Area = 'Ill. I I acres Total .Area of Property — 0.62 acres 1...e gend Property Boundary Wetland Boundary 4 T P 4 Vest est Pit 0 — Split rail fence I Wetlaiid Boundary Survey ("Ompleted 81"26.1"99. Property Bomidary data from llaso survev mat) mmarea by Starbuck Surveyors & 17, iigl.tieers (undated).