Fire rescue training center proposed

Windsor Severance Fire Rescue’s proposed training center on Great Western Drive would occupy a 68,999-square-foot site zoned heavy industrial, with a training building and a live-fire facility. The building is listed at 5,320 square feet gross, 5,749 net and 22 feet, 9¼ inches tall; the plan provides 18 parking spaces, including two electric-vehicle spaces, four bike spaces and two accessible spaces, one van-accessible. The live-fire structure would be made from used shipping containers to mimic a multistory building for firefighter interior-fire training, using wood fires; it would be non-habitable, have no utilities or permanent staff, and use a fire truck for water. The town planning director approved a minor adjustment to tree requirements in a landscape buffer because the Greeley Water Line Easement prevents planting the required number. The street-front plan provides seven of eight required trees, citing a ditch and utilities. Open space must remain undeveloped, and permanent structures there require the town manager’s prior written consent.