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Lisa Poppaw, District 2 Fort Collins, Colorado
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WORK SESSION
August 26, 2008
1. Call Meeting_to Order.
2. South College Corridor Plan Update. (1 hour discussion)
Since Fall 2007, staff has been working with area businesses, property owners and
residents in the preparation of a South College Corridor Plan. The process is now
entering its final phase, and the purpose of this work session is to get feedback from
Council on the main ideas and direction of the Plan so that adjustments can be made in
the process or content before the Plan document is drafted this fall.
3. Fort Collins Climate Action Plan. (1 hour discussion)
In 1999, Fort Collins was among the first communities in the nation to adopt a
community-wide greenhouse gas reduction goal and a plan to meet it. Good progress has
been made over the past 8 years but Fort Collins was not on track to meet the 2010 goal.
In 2007, a citizen task force was convened to develop an updated Plan and recommend a
future direction. In May 2008, City Council set visionary new community-wide
greenhouse gas goals for 2020 and 2050 that align with the State goals. Council also
expressed interest in continuing short-term progress and stated the intent to reduce 2012
emissions to 2.466 million tons of carbon dioxide (comparable to the original 2010 goal).
After a year of evaluating strategies and considering cost-effectiveness, the Climate Task
Force completed its recommendations in June 2008, including 16 aggressive strategies to
reduce emissions in all sectors. The short-term strategies would more than meet the 2012
intent. The Task Force also recommended qualitative long-term strategies for making
progress towards the new 2020 goal. City staff subsequently evaluated the strategies,
updated the assumptions and made adjustments, where necessary. The result is a list of
strategies that were recommended by the Climate Task Force, carefully vetted by staff,
and now proposed for inclusion in an updated Fort Collins Climate Action Plan. The
purpose of this work session is to receive Council's comments about the strategies prior
to the final round of public outreach; to clarify the relationship between the Climate Plan,
energy policy and trash services study, and identify key Council decision points for
implementing climate protection activities.
4. Other Business.
5. Adournment.