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City of Fort Collins
LAND USE REVIEW COMMISSION
2022 Annual Report
BACKGROUND:
The Land Use Review Commission (LURC) consists of seven members. Meetings were held
the second Thursday of every month over the Zoom virtual platform, hybrid format, and in-
person. The Board may also meet as needed in order to convene special meetings and did so
once in 2022 (July 1). The Commission did not meet in October 2022 due to lack of appeals.
The commission members who served in 2022 were: Shelley La Mastra, Ian Shuff, John
McCoy, Taylor Meyer, Dave Lawton, Nathanial Coffman and Katie Vogel. The annual election
of officers resulted in Shelley La Mastra being elected as chairperson and Ian Shuff as vice-
chairperson.
City Council liaison to the Board during 2022 was Shirley Peel. Staff support was provided by
Noah Beals, Kory Katsimpalis, Shar Manno, Katie Claypool, Claire Havelda and Aaron Guin.
2022 YEAR IN REVIEW:
Thirty-one (31) applications for variances to the Land Use Code were submitted to the LURC
in 2022. In comparison, the number of applications for variances was forty-nine (49) in 2021;
fifty-five (55) in 2020, forty-six (46) in 2019, forty-seven (47) in 2018; thirty-eight (38) in 2017;
forty-one (41) in 2016; fifty-one (51) in 2015; thirty-five (35) in 2014; twenty-seven (27) in 2013;
and twenty-six (26) in 2012.
Nineteen (19) of the variance requests were approved; six (6) were denied; three (3) were
approved with specific conditions; three (3) were withdrawn and one (1) was rescheduled to
2023. (One item received both an approval and a denial related to specific portions of the
request, resulting in a decision total which exceeds the amount of requests by one (1)).