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Home My Public Portal AboutTBP 2015-06-17 Town Manager Newsletter June 16, 2015 th The June 17 Town Board meeting has been cancelled because many of the Trustees will be attending the Colorado Municipal League Conference this week. The next st meeting will be July 1. Planning The Planning Department is still very busy with development review and building permit review. Our building permits are now going directly into Laserfiche, our document management software. The Town Planner is finalizing the location and design of additional trailhead signage in Fraser. The Town has received the six Keep American Beautiful (KAB)/Coca Cola Bins. The Town of Fraser is the only entity in Colorado to receive the grant! Look for them soon around Fraser. The Town is expected to track and report the amount of recyclables collected with the bins over a 12 month period. ArcGIS Online is a collaborative, cloud-based platform that allows members of an organization to use, create, and share maps, scenes, apps, and data, and access authoritative basemaps and ready-to-use apps. Fraser moved into the cloud-based platform this year and the following is a status report since the beginning of the year:  Extensive work with public works has been done to prepare for summer inspections. The water and sanitation GIS database was restructured to better accommodate inspections data and the new procedures for performing inspections. Maps and services were setup for mobile editing in the field with a tablet and the Collector app, allowing for inspection reports to be filled out in real time as the crew is on-site. Data is synced to the cloud when back in the office and Adam is able to track progress and Jodi downloads and extracts the data for updating information in the master database. With this new setup, not only more comprehensive data will be available through interactive maps, but data is being verified and made more complete, and inspections can be tracked more efficiently and information is more accessible to town staff.  Town maps are being developed for the website to better provide information to the public. An interactive zoning map will soon be embedded on the Planning and Zoning webpage, so that citizens can easily look up zoning information without having to download a large PDF map. FAQs about town services, amenities and attractions will be available on the website. And we will be rolling out new/updated maps and apps Town of Fraser PO Box 370, Fraser, CO 80442 office 970-726-5491 fax 970-726-5518 www.frasercolorado.com soon: address locator, property information finder, parks and open space explorer, and a points of interest and parking map.  More services – map layers are being made available online.  Services are being maintained and updated with new features/edits  Aerials – new 2014 imagery will be available on ArcGIS Online soon.  Custom basemap covering the Towns of Fraser and Winter Park is continually being improved and updated. In 2008, Grand County Water & Sanitation District #1 (GCWSD) converted decommissioned sewage lagoons into augmentation reservoirs. Records indicate that the reservoirs are lined with a blended clay liner to reduce seepage loss. However, a definite liner was not observed during the lagoon conversion project. GCWSD has noted that an unacceptable loss of stored water was occurring through the Reservoir 2 liner, located in the northwest portion of the property. GCWSD is currently constructing liner improvements and adding below grade storage capacity to Reservoir 2. In October 2014, the Planning Commission approved a Development Permit for Grand Valley Flooring (GVF) for property located at 76891 US Highway 40. This property is sandwiched between the GCWSD ponds to the southeast and Rocky Mountain Moonshine to the northwest. The permit approval allows for the construction of a 5,000 square foot pre-manufactured, metal, commercial building to house GVF and potentially 2 other businesses yet to be determined. The Town Planner is currently working with two businesses (located on US40) on their Business Enhancement Grant applications. The hope is to schedule these soon on an upcoming Town Board agenda. The flowering baskets are here for selected businesses! The flowering baskets for businesses is another result of the Community Revitalization Partnership (CRP) Program. The CRP report recommended that the Town develop programs and initiatives to improve the overall appearance of Fraser, especially along important corridors. This Thank you for your continued program is an ongoing effort in community revitalization. support! We all recognize that Fraser’s ability to provide quality municipal services and infrastructure is directly related to the economic success of the local business community. 2 Planning Commission On June 10, 2015, the Planning Commission approved a Development Permit for Murdoch’s Ranch & Home Supply! So, the next step is a building permit. It is anticipated that a permit will be submitted by the end of month and the store opening by year end. The exterior material board and site plan details are available for viewing at Fraser Town Hall. Thanks to staffers and PC for making this happen. We are very fortunate that the owners have filled the Also space so quickly. Kudos to Craig Clark for drawing Murdoch’s to Fraser. The Final Plat public hearing for Elk Creek at Grand Park was continued until June 24, 2015. Grand Park Development LLC, the applicant, is proposing 71 single-family lots to be platted and constructed in five (5) phases on approximately 17 acres. The Commission is in receipt of a major subdivision proposal: The Meadows at Grand Park: Grand Park Development LLC, the applicant, is proposing 30 single family dwellings on 11.4 acres on Planning Area 3WC. The Commission is also in receipt of a Use by Special Review permit application for a Wastewater Treatment Facility. Cornerstone Winter Park Holdings, LLC has requested consideration of a Use by Special Review and Development Permit for a new wastewater treatment facility. This facility would be located generally behind the Fraser Valley Center along the east side of CR72. The facility is proposed to provide service to the property known as Byers Peak Ranch and would discharge into Elk Creek. A public hearing has been scheduled for June 24, 2015. The Planning Commission received the Strategic Planning Economic Development Group Power Point that was handed out at the last Town Board meeting. There is much interest to join the Town Board in the “What is Economic Development discussion?” Public Works The Public Works Department completed the annual water system leak detection survey in the south system (Rendezvous & Grand Park areas) late last week. Staff is preparing public notification materials for our sewer line replacement and rehabilitation project between Norgren and Carriage this August. A survey of the utility easement will be performed in advance of the project start so that property owners will have sufficient time to remove their belongings out of the easement prior to the work start date, yet TBD. Weather precipitation continues to slow down progress on this project. With warmer, drier weather slated for the week of June 15th, the contractor hopes to make some big strides. Waterline installation continued this week to the top of CR804. The end of the waterline trench was protected with a steel plate and marked with traffic cones. Additional traffic control was installed earlier to enhance public and worker safety. 3 Late afternoon Friday 6/12/15, detour signage has been temporally removed opening up CR 804 to two-way traffic. Each Friday afternoon the construction site is shut down for the weekend and detour routing signs are laid face down and the “Road Closed” signage is removed from the CR804/Cranmer intersection to fully open CR804 to two-way traffic. Slurry Seal RFP’s came back well over budget so a new RFP will be issued for a simple seal coat application to the asphalt bike/pedestrian trails. The work will be scheduled for some time in August/September. The hanging baskets are here and will be ready for distribution soon. Seasonal gardening staff has been hired. Cozens Ranch Open Space: Construction activities continue on the 42-inch pipe crossing- Drainage Alignment project. This work is an extension of the pipe crossing project that started in the fall of 2013 as a result of big water run-off in the spring of 2014. This additional work has involved the construction of a new swale to convey storm water flows from the west side of SH40 to the Fraser River. All of the work being performed is under the authorization of our ‘Nation Wide Permit 43- Stormwater Management Facilities’ through our valid US Army Corps permit. The upstream section of the new swale was filled in and the swale shaped to accept flows; log waddles and check-dams were installed to minimize sediment transport; the lower section of the swale was shaped to allow flows to move freely to the river; the lower section of the original feeder ditch (now abandoned) that fed the upper pond was also filled following written approval for a modification to our original permit by the US Army Corps. The Department is in a hold pattern waiting for the earth materials to dry out so that staff can make final grade adjustments, place top soil and duff and re-vegetate. The final item remaining, placement of a rock lined run-down channel into the Fraser River, will not take place until late August/September as this is the only time construction activities can take place in the waters of the US, per our permit. PSCo (Xcel) has rescheduled their 1,100' bore replacement of the 8" high pressure transmission gas line in the easement area south of CR 8 between Hwy 40 and Wapiti Drive to Monday July 6, 2015. This is an approx. 6-8 week project from mobilization to restoration. They will be making a request to the Board for an extension to the work hours, currently sunrise to sunset, to allow for one 24-hour operational period during the time when they need to pull the new pipe through the bore hole. This process must be completed in a single pull process to maintain the integrity of the bore hole and in an effort to minimize the duration of the project construction time frame. More to come as the Public Works Director receives it! There will not be a closure of Wapiti Dr. during this time; however, the travel lanes at CR8 & Wapiti will be reduced in width for a few days to allow the contractor to make the tie-in of the new pipe into the existing pipe works at the Babey valve set in Wapiti Dr. Public Works staff in partner with youth volunteers for the Timberline Lodge Group will be doing trail maintenance activities along the southern section of the Fraser River Trail from CR804 to the Mountain Man Park in Rendezvous this coming June 17th, weather dependent. 4 For Further Information Please feel free to contact me Jeff Durbin 970-726-5491x202 jdurbin@town.fraser.co.us 5