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WORK SESSION
January 12, 2010
1. Call Meeting to Order.
2. Dr. Tony Frank, CSU. (30 minute presentation)
General comments regarding CSU initiatives and CSU/City partnerships.
3. Update: Fort Collins Green Building Program. (staff: Doug Swartz and Felix Lee; 45
minute discussion)
The City Council identified advancing green building as a priority to support attainment
of Climate Action Plan, Energy Policy and Water Conservation Plan goals. In 2010, an
interdepartmental team led by Utilities will develop an integrated framework and specific
elements of the Green Building Program (GB Program). The City’s Roadmap for
Coordinated and Enhanced Green Building Services, completed in 2007 with extensive
input from a variety of City departments and community stakeholders, provides the
starting point for this effort.
The goal of the Green Building Program is to ensure building projects increasingly align
with the community’s triple-bottom-line goals of a vibrant economy, healthy community
and sustainable environment for all citizens. The GB Program will support the green
building transition already occurring in the market place. It will lead to quality building
projects that can demonstrate substantive, measurable results. As part of an integrated
framework addressing the built environment, the GB Program should also dovetail with
larger scale neighborhood and urban-scale green initiatives. City processes related to
green building will be relatively simple and easily navigated.
The GB Program will develop and subsequently implement several priority elements, in
three general areas, to create an integrated framework with measurable objectives. These
areas are 1) foundational, related to how the GB Program is designed and implemented;
2) regulatory (minimum green building codes); and 3) voluntary, market-based, above-
code mechanisms to encourage higher levels of green building. These priorities reflect a
balance of regulatory and voluntary approaches, and provide a mechanism to track
progress.
Code aspects of the GB Program will focus first on residential building, using the
National Green Building Standard™ as a template. Staff will monitor the on-going
development of two national commercial green building standards for their potential to
become the basis for the local code.
Staff will coordinate multiple opportunities for technical and stakeholder input to the GB
Program, with potential links to the public outreach planned for the update to City Plan
and the Transportation Master Plan. The engagement process will include technical
advisory committees for residential code development and on-going updates to boards,
commissions and the public.
Green building code development will continue throughout 2010, with a goal of adoption
by early 2011. Effective dates for the new standards will be determined through the
process and in consultation with City Council.
4. Economic Health/Financial Issues Update. (staff: Darin Atteberry, Mike Freeman, and
Josh Birks; 45 minute discussion)
The overall economic health goal is to “promote a healthy, sustainable economy
reflecting the values of our unique community in a changing world.” The City has strong
partnerships with diverse organizations, strategic marketing and promotion of the area to
new and expanding businesses, and the City continues to focus on retaining and growing
quality primary jobs while also focusing on retaining and building the retail sector.
In 2009 the City faced challenges such as broad economic slowdown, decrease in sales
tax collections, decrease in use tax collections, and financing difficulties for developers.
Fort Collins has not been immune to the global economic climate, yet has economic
strengths unique to the community and has generally fared better than others. Fort
Collins has a highly educated workforce, an innovative and globally-focused university,
supportive culture for entrepreneurs, and diverse industries.
5. Other Business.
6. Adjournment.