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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY June 21, 2022
City Council
STAFF
Brad Buckman, Manager, Civil Engineering
Claire Havelda, Legal
SUBJECT
Second Reading of Ordinance No. 070, 2022, Repealing Sections 23-90 to 23-95 and Amending Section 24-1
of the Code of the City of Fort Collins Regarding Neighborhood Entry Signs.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on June 7, 2022, deletes City Code redundancy. The
City’s Sign Code was adopted in 2017 as part of the Land Use Code. This makes City Code Sections 23-90 to
23-95 and 24-1(4)-(5) unnecessary.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
ATTACHMENTS
1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, June 7, 2022 (w/o attachments) (PDF)
2. Ordinance No. 070, 2022 (PDF)
Agenda Item 12
Item # 12 Page 1
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY June 7, 2022
City Council
STAFF
Brad Buckman, Manager, Civil Engineering
Claire Havelda, Legal
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 070, 2022, Repealing Sections 23-90 to 23-95 and Amending Section 24-1 of
the Code of the City of Fort Collins Regarding Neighborhood Entry Signs.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to delete City Code redundancy. The City’s Sign Code was adopted in 2017 as part
of the Land Use Code. This makes City Code Sections 23-90 to 23-95 and 24-1(4)-(5) unnecessary.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
The City updated its Sign Code into the Land Use Code in 2017 following the Supreme Court’s decision in Reed
v. Town of Gilbert. City Code Sections 23-90 through 23-95 regulating Neighborhood Entry Signs were thereby
made unnecessary as the Sign Code now regulates these signs. References to neighborhood signs in City
Code Section 24-1 are also being deleted.
ATTACHMENT 1
COPY
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ORDINANCE NO. 070, 2022
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
REPEALING SECTIONS 23-90 TO 23-95 AND AMENDING SECTION 24-1
OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
REGARDING NEIGHBORHOOD ENTRY SIGNS
WHEREAS, on August 15, 2017, City Council amended its Land Use Code Sign
Regulations to ensure compliance with the Supreme Court’s direction in Reed v. Town of Gilbert
that sign regulation must be content and viewpoint neutral; and
WHEREAS, on August 15, 2017, City Council adopted Ordinance No. 088, 2017
amending Land Use Code (“LUC”) Sections 3.8.7.1, 3.8.7.2, 3.8.7.3, 3.8.7.4, 3.8.7.5, and 3.8.7.6,
collectively referred to as the “City of Fort Collins Sign Code” or the “Sign Code”; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the Sign Code is to comprehensively regulate the design,
location, installation, display, operation, repair, maintenance and removal of signs in a manner that
advances the City’s compelling interests while safeguarding free speech and complying with Reed;
and
WHEREAS, prior to the Sign Code update, the City regulated “Neighborhood Signs” in
City Code Sections 23-90 to 23-95 and 24-1(4)-(5) & (7); and
WHEREAS, Sections 23-90 to 23-95 and 24-1(4)-(5) & (7) of the City Code were made
redundant by adoption of the Sign Code; and
WHEREAS, City Council finds it is in the City’s best interest to repeal City Code Sections
23-90, 23-91, 23-92, 23-94, and 23-95 and amend Section 24-1.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and
findings contained in the recitals set forth above.
Section 2. That Chapter 23, Article III, Division 4 is hereby deleted in its entirety and
held in reserve.
Section 3. That Section 24-1 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 24-1. Signs on streets, sidewalks and public rights-of-way prohibited; removal;
exceptions; permit.
Notwithstanding the provisions of § 17-42, the following signs shall be permitted on streets,
sidewalks and other areas owned by the City:
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. . .
(4) Signs placed by the City on bus benches and bus shelters displaying advertisements,
provided that:
a. Any bus shelters displaying advertising signs shall be located either: (1)
within three hundred (300) feet of any existing commercial/ retail or industrial use,
(2) within three hundred (300) feet of any land zoned to permit any
commercial/retail or industrial use, or (3) along any arterial street provided that no
residential uses front on such arterial street within three hundred (300) feet of such
bus shelter; and
b. If signs are placed on bus benches or bus shelters by a private contractor
pursuant to a contract between the City and said contractor, such contract shall
specify the content, size, placement, illumination, design and material to be used
for the construction of the benches or shelters, and the signs placed thereon, so as
to minimize the visual impacts of such signs on the general public and surrounding
properties.
(5) Portable signs permitted under Article IV of this Chapter.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 7th day of
June, A.D. 2022, and to be presented for final passage on the 21st day of June, A.D. 2022.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 21st day of June, A.D. 2022.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk