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Home My WebLink AboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 07/19/2005 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 080, 2005, APPROPRI ITEM NUMBER: 14 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: July 19, 200s FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Kathleen Bracke Chip Steiner SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 080, 2005, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue in the Transportation Services Fund to Be Used to Conduct the Downtown River District Improvement Project. RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance. FINANCIAL IMPACT Pursuant to an Intergovernmental Agreement between the Downtown Development Authority (the "DDA") and the City of Fort Collins, the DDA is providing $200,000 to the City to conduct the Downtown River District Improvement Project (the "Project"). The City will provide an in- kind contribution to the project, of up to $100,000, through staff time and departmental resources. The DDA cash contribution will be used to hire a consultant team to assist with this project. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The DDA and the City's departments of Transportation Planning, Engineering, Advanced Planning, and Utilities have initiated this Project to address the lack of sufficient public infrastructure to support infill development and redevelopment in the Downtown River Corridor area. This Project will be co-managed by the City and the DDA. The first phase of the Project includes detailed design/preliminary engineering and cost estimating of needed transportation and utility improvements for the area including Jefferson, Willow, Lincoln, and Linden Streets. The transportation and utility improvements suggested by this Project will help the area achieve the visions and goals set forth by City Plan and the Downtown River Corridor Implementation Program. July 19, 2005 -2- Item No. 14 BACKGROUND The ultimate goal of the Project is to implement the recommended improvements suggested by many planning projects and studies completed for this area in recent years. The first phase of the Project includes detailed design work for the necessary transportation and utility improvements for the area including Jefferson, Willow, Lincoln and Linden Streets. Subsequent phases of the Project will include securing construction funding, final engineering, and construction of the identified infrastructure improvements. This project specifically addresses many of the high priority projects listed in the Downtown River Corridor Implementation Program report: 1. Linden,Willow, and Lincoln Streetscape Improvements (1st priority); 2. Linden/Jefferson intersection project(1st priority); 3. Lincoln Avenue Bridge—part of streetscape improvements (1st priority); 4. Jefferson/Riverside Streetscape Improvements, portion along Jefferson only (1st priority); 5. Linden/Willow Urban Design Features (2nd priority); 6. Gateway Features (3rd priority). This project will use the overall Downtown River Corridor Implementation Program and other recent applicable planning projects as a guide and develop detailed engineering drawings for the streetscape/roadways and utility improvements throughout this area. The design will address roadway width, alignment, location, grade, surface treatment, on-street parking, and streetscape/lighting features plus resolve railroad, drainage, utility, natural features, and environmental issues. The improvements will address all modes of transportation. In addition, the project will include design plans for the following intersections: Jefferson/Linden, Jefferson/Lincoln, Willow/Linden, Willow/Lincoln. The designs will address interim and ultimate improvement levels and include cost estimates and a recommended phasing process as well as potential funding strategies. This project will include an extensive public involvement process, including potentially affected interests such as the property and business owners within the project area, multiple City departments, the Transportation Board and Planning and Zoning Board (as well as others as appropriate), City Council, DDA, Downtown Business Association, Colorado Department of Transportation, and railroad companies. The construction of the identified infrastructure improvements will be accomplished in the future by private development and/or redevelopment projects within the district. ATTACHMENTS 1. Downtown River District Improvement Project—Infrastructure Design Map ATTACHMENT1 k � c u Q W (µ d- Kl- ��",., V {� � or LL LU a c a \ r r y .. iz LU o '-oz .L '�•' 1} SP'�' ��.' Y d , .1. W�yW�yyy''o 6 o y, aa LU 47 d' 1 a. 12 J 1. z Oz z f �C O OW �q 3 Z Jn 0 Q C zM 'j JN= W J F v � ORDINANCE NO. 080, 2005 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FUND TO BE USED TO CONDUCT THE DOWNTOWN RIVER DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PROJECT WHEREAS, the City's departments of Transportation Planning, Engineering, Advance Planning,and Utility Services are partnering with the Downtown Development Authority("DDA") to conduct a Downtown River District Improvement Project (the "Project"); and WHEREAS, the purpose of the Project is to address the lack of sufficient public infrastructure to support infill development and redevelopment in the Downtown River Corridor area; and WHEREAS, the first phase of the Project will include detailed design/preliminary engineering and cost estimating of needed transportation and utility improvements for the area including Jefferson Street, Willow Street,Lincoln Avenue, and Linden Street; and WHEREAS, the transportation and utility improvements that may result from this Project fit within the visions and goals as set forth by City Plan and the Downtown River Corridor Implementation Program; and WHEREAS, the City and the DDA have entered into an intergovernmental agreement, whereby the DDA has agreed to provide the City with$200,000 to conduct the Project,and the City has agreed to provide in-kind contributions,of up to$100,000,in the form of staff time and available departmental resources; and WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins (the "Charter") permits the City Council to make supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year,provided that the total amount of such supplemental appropriations,in combination with all previous appropriations for that fiscal year, does not exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year•, and WHEREAS,City staff has determined that the appropriation of the payment from the DDA as referenced above will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Transportation Services Fund - Downtown River District Improvement project to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received during any fiscal year; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City Council to appropriate the sum of$200,000 in the Transportation Services Fund,representing payment from the DDA for their share of costs associated with the Downtown River District Improvement Project. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated revenue in the Transportation Services Fund - Downtown River District Improvement project, the sum of TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($200,000),representing the Downtown Development Authority's share of costs associated with the Downtown River District Improvement Project. Introduced,considered favorably on first reading,and ordered published this 19th day of July, A.D. 2005, and to be presented for final passage on the 16th day of August, A.D. 2005. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading this 16th day of August, A.D. 2005. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk