July 5, 2017
Dear Applicant and/or Consultant:
Subject: Albrecht Rezone, P-17-003
The purpose of this letter is to provide you with the review agency responses to the above named development application that have been received to-date by Planning and Community Development.
You are encouraged to directly contact those agencies that did provide review comments if the comments require additional action by the applicant/applicant’s representative. You are also encouraged to directly contact those agencies that did not provide review comments if such response is required by state statutes and the El Paso County Land Development Code.
EL PASO COUNTY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Planning Division
1. Pages 27-31 of the title commitment are not legible. Please scan them in like all the other pages. Keep in mind that whatever you upload will replace the old version so all other title commitments will need to be included in the same PDF.
2. Please submit a word version of the legal description. This legal will be sent to our GIS department to change the zoning maps once the request is approved. If the legal were incorrect, it would result in the wrong properties being rezoned.
3. See attached for the redline drawings.
Engineering Division
1. No Engineering Comments
EL PASO COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT
Parks
The Planning Division of the Community Services Department has reviewed the Albrecht Rezone application and has the following comments of behalf of El Paso County Parks.
The El Paso County Parks Master Plan (2013) shows no open space, park facilities, or trails intersected by or within the project area. The project site is located near the intersection of Judge Orr Road and North Ellicott Highway. The proposed Judge Orr Road and Log Road Bicycle Routes are both located approximately 1 mile west of the site, while the proposed Black Squirrel Creek Primary Regional Trail is located approximately 3.75 miles southwest of the property. The subject property is not located within any Candidate Open Space, although the Judge Orr Road Candidate Open Space is located approximately 2 miles west of the property.
These comments are being provided administratively, as this application does not require Park Advisory Board consideration.
Sincerely,
Ross A. Williams Park Planner Planning Division
Community Services Department
Cc:
Elaine Kleckner
Environmental
The El Paso County Environmental Division has completed its review of the Albrecht Rezone P-17-003. Our review consisted of the following items: wetlands, federal and state listed threatened or endangered species, general wildlife resources and noxious weeds.
We have reviewed the submittal and have no comments at this time.
The applicant is hereby on notice that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have regulatory jurisdiction over wetland and threatened and endangered species issues, respectively. It is the applicant’s responsibility, and not El Paso County’s, to ensure compliance with all applicable county, state, and federal laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Colorado Noxious Weed Act and El Paso County Weed Management Plan.
We appreciate the opportunity to comment on this project. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at (719) 520-7845.
EL PASO COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
El Paso County Public Health has no issue with the requested zone change from the current PUD back to the original A-35 zoning provided there is compliance with the content of these comments.
All future structures and any existing structure constructed on any of the existing properties within the 308 acre overall site that generate wastewater must install and/or have an approved permit for an Onsite Wastewater Treatment System (OWTS) per Chapter 8 of the El Paso County Board of Health Regulations. El Paso County Public Health will respond as required to all concerns of the Upper Black Squirrel Ground Water Management District (UBSGWMD) regarding any property where an approved OWTS may not be installed when such concerns are submitted as complaints to El Paso County Public Health.
Individual private wells must meet the minimum setback requirements from OWTS components as required by the Onsite Wastewater Treatment System (OWTS) Regulations within Chapter 8 of the El Paso County Board of Health Regulations.
Mike McCarthy, R.E.H.S.
El Paso County Public Health
Environmental Health Division
719.575.8602
01July2017
EL PASO COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT
The Board of Directors and District Conservationist have no comments at this time. Thank you
EL PASO TELLER COUNTY 911
No action for 911 All street names previously approved Justin
MOUNTAIN VIEW ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, INC.,
Mountain View Electric Association, Inc. (MVEA) has these comments about the following:
Project Name: Albrecht Rezone Project Number: EA-16-098, P-17-003
Description: Approval is being requested to rezone eight (8) parcels consisting of approximately 308 acres from Planned Unit Develop (PUD) to Agricultural (A35). These parcels, owned by several landowners is located north of Judge Orr Road and west of Ellicott Highway .
This area is within MVEA certificated service area. MVEA continues to serve this area according to our extension policy. Information concerning service under MVEA policy can be obtained by contacting the Engineering Department of MVEA. With existing MVEA facilities within these parcels of land, if there is any removal or relocation of facilities it will be at the expense of the applicant.
MVEA has no objection to the rezone of these parcels.
If additional information is required, please contact our office at (719) 495-2283.
Sincerely,
Cathy Hansen-Lee
Engineering Administrative Assistant
THE UPPER BLACK SQUIRREL CREEK
The Upper Black Squirrel Creek Ground Water Management District does not have issue with the rezone and is fine with that. However, the District would like to see these properties get into compliance. There are three campers, on three different lots in the Albrecht subdivision currently which have been there all winter, have not moved, that are living without electricity, wells, and septic. They are skirted in and we are assuming they are dumping their waste into the ground as the campers have not moved. We will be sending a letter to the Health Department as well on this.
Comments received from any of the non-responding agencies following the issuance of this letter will be forwarded to the applicant/applicant’s representative and will be added to the end of this letter for record keeping purposes.
Due to the number of comments and necessary revisions to the plan(s) an additional detailed review will be necessary. Please address the comments as listed above. A detailed letter needs to accompany the revisions to allow for an expeditious re-review timeframe. The letter should include each comment listed above and, immediately thereafter, include a response from the applicant addressing the comment.
If any review agency has an issue that needs resolution or requires a revision, you will need to provide the necessary documents, drawings, etc., to the Planning and Community Development Department in the form of a resubmittal. The Planning and Community Development Department will then forward the resubmitted items directly to the appropriate review agency. If you have any questions pertaining to specific agency comments please contact the appropriate agency directly.
Please contact me if you would like to schedule a meeting with myself or the multi-disciplinary team.
When all the comments have been addressed and corrections made please submit the required documents as requested on the attached resubmittal matrix.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me at (719) 520-6313.
Best Regards,
Nina Ruiz, PM/Planner II
El Paso County Planning and Community Development Department
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