HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - SUMMARY AGENDA - 11/06/2012 - SUMMARY AGENDAKaren Weitkunat, Mayor
Kelly Ohlson, District 5, Mayor Pro Tem Council Chambers
Ben Manvel, District 1 City Hall West
Lisa Poppaw, District 2 300 LaPorte Avenue
Aislinn Kottwitz, District 3
Wade Troxell, District 4 Cablecast on City Cable Channel 14
Gerry Horak, District 6 on the Comcast cable system
Darin Atteberry, City Manager
Steve Roy, City Attorney
Wanda Nelson, City Clerk
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REGULAR MEETING
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Proclamations and Presentations
5:30 p.m.
A. Proclamation Declaring November 2012 through November 2013 as Year of the Natural Areas.
B. Proclamation Declaring November as American Music Month.
C. Proclamation Declaring November as National Family Caregiver Month.
D. Proclamation Declaring November as Alzheimer’s Awareness Month.
E. Proclamation Declaring November 10-18 as National Homelessness Awareness Week.
Regular Meeting
6:00 p.m.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER.
2. ROLL CALL.
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3. AGENDA REVIEW:
• City Manager Review of Agenda.
• Consent Calendar Review.
This Review provides an opportunity for Council and citizens to pull items from the Consent
Calendar. Anyone may request an item on this Calendar be “pulled” off the Consent
Calendar and considered separately.
N Council opportunity to pull Consent Calendar items.
(will be considered under Item No. 34)
N Citizen opportunity to pull Consent Calendar items.
(will be considered under Item. No. 38)
4. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION
5. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION FOLLOW-UP
This is an opportunity for the Mayor or Councilmembers to follow-up on issues raised during Citizen
Participation.
CONSENT CALENDAR
The Consent Calendar consists of Items 6 through 30. This Calendar is intended to allow the City Council
to spend its time and energy on the important items on a lengthy agenda. Staff recommends approval of
the Consent Calendar. The Consent Calendar consists of:
! Ordinances on First Reading that are routine
! Ordinances on Second Reading that are routine
! Those of no perceived controversy
! Routine administrative actions.
Individuals who wish to make comments regarding items remaining on the Consent Calendar or wish to
address the Council on items not specifically scheduled on the agenda must first be recognized by the
Mayor or Mayor Pro Tem. Before speaking, please sign in at the table in the back of the room. The
timer will buzz once when there are 30 seconds left and the light will turn yellow. The timer will buzz again
at the end of the speaker’s time. Each speaker is allowed 5 minutes. If there are more than 6 individuals
who wish to speak, the Mayor may reduce the time allowed for each individual.
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BUDGET CONSENT ITEMS
6. Second Reading of Ordinance No. 107, 2012, Being the Annual Appropriation Ordinance of the Fort
Collins Downtown Development Authority Relating to the Annual Appropriations for the Fiscal Year
2013 and Fixing the Mill Levy for the Downtown Development Authority for Fiscal Year 2013.
Ordinance No. 107, 2012, unanimously adopted on First Reading on October 16, 2012, sets the
Downtown Development Authority (DDA) 2013 Operations and Maintenance Budget amount of
$769,440 to be appropriated for fiscal year 2013 for the administrative operations budget;
appropriates the 2013 Line of Credit Draw in the amount of $1,000,000; sets the amount of
$3,197,535 for debt service payments to be appropriated for fiscal year 2013; and sets the 2013 Mill
Levy for the Fort Collins DDA at five (5) mills, unchanged since tax year 2002. The approved Budget
becomes the Downtown Development Authority’s financial plan for 2013.
7. Items Relating to Water and Electric Development Fees and Charges for 2013.
A. Second Reading of Ordinance No. 113, 2012, Amending Chapter 26 of the City Code to
Revise Water Rates and Charges.
B. Second Reading of Ordinance No. 115, 2012, Amending Chapter 26 of the City Code to
Revise Electric Development Fees and Charges.
The proposed water increase is a flat 4% across the board to all customer classes. Electric
development fees are proposed to decrease an average of 2.4% for residential and decrease an
average of 1.6% for commercial development. There are no changes in the monthly rates for
wastewater or stormwater services being proposed for 2013. Both Ordinances were unanimously
adopted on First Reading on October 16, 2012.
NON- BUDGET CONSENT ITEMS
8. Consideration and Approval of the Minutes of the October 16, 2012 Regular Meeting and the October
23, 2012 Adjourned Meeting.
9. Second Reading of Ordinance No. 108, 2012, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue from
Colorado Parks and Wildlife in the Conservation Trust Fund for the Fossil Creek Trail at East Trilby
Road.
This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on October 16, 2012, appropriates a
$200,000 trail grant received from Colorado Parks and Wildlife for the completion of the Fossil Creek
Trail at East Trilby Road.
10. Second Reading of Ordinance No. 109, 2012, Appropriating a Grant from Great Outdoors Colorado
for the City’s Portion of Larimer County’s Poudre River Corridor and Regional Trail Initiative Grant.
This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on October 16, 2012, appropriates a grant
received from Great Outdoors Colorado in the amount of $737,597. The funds will be used as part
of Fort Collins’ portion of the Poudre River Corridor & Regional Trail Initiative project. The grant
request includes open space acquisitions, trail easements, and trail development along the Poudre
River from Fort Collins to Greeley. The total grant project cost is $8,074,826, with the Great Outdoors
Colorado grant being in the amount of $5,098,150. The City of Fort Collins portion of the project is
$1,558,880, with the Great Outdoors Colorado grant amount being $737,597.
11. Second Reading of Ordinance No. 110, 2012, Approving a Fourth Amendment to the Fort Collins-
Timnath Intergovernmental Agreement Regarding Cooperation on Annexation, Growth Management,
and Related Issues, Eliminating Original Terms Related to the Boxelder Overflow Project and
Establishing the Terms of Cost Sharing for Design Engineering of Substituted Improvements in the
Boxelder Basin.
On February 17, 2009, the City of Fort Collins (City) and the Town of Timnath (Timnath) entered into
an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) regarding annexations, growth management, and related
issues. The IGA resolved certain differences that had arisen between the City and Timnath
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concerning a variety of planning and growth management issues. The IGA sets forth provisions for
the funding, design and construction of the Boxelder Overflow Project. The IGA has been amended
three times since for items such as the extension of deadlines for approval of the respective growth
management areas and the deletion of all references to Timnath’s possible purchase of the Vangbo
property.
The parties have determined that development of the Boxelder Overflow Project originally
contemplated by Timnath as described in the Intergovernmental Agreement is neither feasible nor
desirable, and have further identified a mutually beneficial alternative approach to address flood
impacts in the Boxelder Creek Basin as it impacts Timnath and Fort Collins, referred to as the
Boxelder Creek Flood Mitigation Projects. In order to move forward cooperatively to further
investigate, conceptually plan and preliminarily design the Boxelder Creek Flood Mitigation Projects,
the parties desire to apply toward those Projects a portion of the funds previously paid into an escrow
account by Fort Collins in accordance with Article 7 of the Intergovernmental Agreement. This
Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on October 16, 2012, approves the Fourth
Amendment to the Intergovernmental Agreement in order to clarify and document the City and
Timnath’s intentions and mutual rights and responsibilities with respect to the Boxelder Overflow
Project and Boxelder Creek Flood Mitigation Projects.
Between First Reading and Second Reading the proposed Amendment has been revised to
specifically allow for Timnath to carry out the funding of the Boxelder Creek Flood Mitigation Projects
through the Timnath Development Agency.
12. Items Relating to the I-25/SH 392 Interchange Project.
A. Second Reading of Ordinance No. 117, 2012, Establishing a Special Fee to Be Paid by the
Owners of Property Within Close Proximity to the Reconstructed Interchange at the
Intersection of Interstate 25 and State Highway 392.
B. Second Reading of Ordinance No. 118, 2012, Approving the First Amended
Intergovernmental Agreement Pertaining to the Development of the Interstate 25/State
Highway 392 Interchange.
On December 21, 2010, the City Council approved an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the
Town of Windsor pertaining to the development of the I-25 interchange at the intersection of State
Highway 392. The IGA states that, by March 31, 2011, the City and Windsor will take certain actions
to implement the fee requirements identified in the IGA. City Council has adopted several resolutions
extending this deadline, the most recent extension being to October 16, 2012.
Ordinance No. 117, 2012, will establish the specifics of a special fee to be paid by the Property
Owners near the interchange. The fee includes two parts and is summarized as follows:
• The first part of the fee is in proportion to the anticipated appreciation in property value as a
result of the interchange improvements. This amount has been determined from an
appraisal report prepared by a licensed MAI appraiser (the "Foster Study").
• The second part of the fee is based on the relative impacts that the development or
redevelopment of the properties will have on the Interchange, as measured by the estimated
number of additional vehicular trips that will be generated by the developed use of the
properties.
Based on negotiation with the Property Owners, the City and Town have created a second option for
Property Owners. Property Owners signing an agreement with the City would be permitted to defer
payment of the entire amount of the fee until their properties are developed or redeveloped, the
amount of their fee would be capped at the amount estimated in the agreement, and no interest would
accrue on their fee for a period of two years from the date of execution of the agreement.
Ordinance No. 118, 2012, adopts the modified IGA first approved by City Council on December 21,
2010, now revised to be consistent with the implementation of the fees as described above. Both
Ordinances were unanimously adopted on First Reading on October 23, 2012.
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13. First Reading of Ordinance No. 119, 2012, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue in the General Fund
to the Fort Collins Housing Authority to Fund Affordable Housing and Related Activities.
The Fort Collins Housing Authority paid the City of Fort Collins $15,457 as the 2010 and 2011
payments for public services and facilities. The Authority requests that the City refund the Payment
in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) to fund sorely needed affordable housing-related activities and to attend to
the low-income housing needs of Fort Collins residents.
Resolution 1992-093 reinstated the requirement that the Authority make annual PILOT payments to
the City. The City may spend the PILOT revenues as it deems appropriate in accordance with law,
including remitting the funds to the Authority if the Council determines that such remittal serves a valid
public purpose. The Council has remitted the PILOT payment to the Authority since 1992.
14. First Reading of Ordinance No. 120, 2012, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue from Great
Outdoors Colorado in the Conservation Trust Fund for the Fossil Creek Trail at County Road 38E
Project.
The City has received the grant payment from Great Outdoors Colorado for the construction of the
Fossil Creek Trail at County Road 38E project. Great Outdoors Colorado had awarded the City a
Special Opportunity Grant for the completion of the Fossil Creek Trail from north of Cathy Fromme
Prairie to the Spring Canyon Community Park. Construction of the project was completed this past
spring.
15. First Reading of Ordinance No. 121, 2012, Amending the City Code to Increase the Amounts of the
Capital Improvement Expansion Fees Contained in Chapter 7.5 of the City Code so as to Reflect
Inflation in Associated Costs of Services.
The City Code requires annual adjustments to certain building permit related fees. Capital
Improvement Expansion fees and Neighborhood Parkland fees are to follow the changes in the
Denver-Boulder-Greeley Consumer Price Index (CPI). Street Oversizing fees are adjusted by the
changes posted in the Engineering News Record (ENR). The CPI has increased 1.8% and the ENR
has increased 1.6%. Additionally the Code is being updated to reference to the most recent
amended manual, The ITE Trip Generation Manual, 8th Edition, 2008.
Staff is working with a consultant who specializes in capital impact fees to re-evaluate the underlying
assumptions and formulas used to calculate the City’s fees. A presentation is scheduled for a work
session on February 12, 2013 and formal consideration on March 5, 2013.
16. First Reading of Ordinance No. 122, 2012, Amending Chapter 15 of the City Code Pertaining to
Contractor Licenses.
Community Development and Neighborhood Services is responsible for the enforcement of the
contractor licensing requirements found in Chapter 15 of the City Code. The changes proposed will
update the current Code by:
• clarifying minimum experience and qualification requirements at the application stage
• creating license categories that better align with the adopted residential and commercial
building codes
• streamlining the application and project verification process
• establishing registration requirements for the currently non-licensed category of workers
• increasing minimum liability amounts to recognized industry levels.
17. Items Relating to the Naming of Arterial and Collector Streets.
A. First Reading of Ordinance No. 123, 2012 Amending Section 24-91 of the City Code
Regarding the Naming of Arterial and Collector Streets.
B. Resolution 2012-100 Updating the List of Names for Arterial and Collector Streets.
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This Ordinance amends the City Code relating to naming new arterial and collector streets so that City
Council ,rather than the developer, would select the name of the new street. The Resolution will
update the current list of names for arterial and collector streets.
18. First Reading of Ordinance No. 124, 2012, Amending Section 2-427 of the City Code Relating to
Membership of the Transportation Board.
The Transportation Board currently consists of eleven members appointed by the City Council, and
is one of the larger advisory boards. At the end of 2012, the terms of four members will expire. One
of those members is not eligible for reappointment because that member has met the Council-
adopted two term limit. Another member is eligible but is not interested in reappointment. This
provides an opportunity for Council to consider changes to the size of the Board without negatively
impacting any current members. This opportunity was presented to the Board by staff, and the Board
voted to recommend that the Council reduce the size from eleven to nine members. This Ordinance
amends the City Code to reduce the size of the Board to nine members.
19. First Reading of Ordinance No. 130, 2012, Amending the Land Use Code by Designating Certain
Types of Multi-family Housing Development Projects as Being Subject to Planning and Zoning Board
Review.
On October 9, 2012, Council directed staff to draft an ordinance amending the Land Use Code (LUC)
to require larger multi-family housing developments (50 dwelling units, or 75 bedrooms) to be
reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Board (Type 2). A Type 2 review requires that the developer
hold a pre-submittal neighborhood meeting. The benefit to the neighborhood meeting is that the
public is given an opportunity to provide input on a project while it is still in the early stages of
development. In recent months a large amount of multi-family housing developments have been
appealed by concerned citizens to Council based on the assertion that the projects are not compatible
with adjacent neighborhoods. This proposed procedural change seeks to provide more opportunity
for the public to participate in the development review process for multi-family housing projects.
20. First Reading of Ordinance No. 125, 2012 Amending Section 26-543 of the City Code to Update the
Stormwater Master Drainage Plans to Include Basin-Specific Water Quality Best Management
Practices and Stream Restoration.
The City of Fort Collins’ Stormwater Master Plan has been updated to include stormwater quality and
stream restoration projects, alongside the already identified stormwater flood control projects. The
Master Plan update utilizes results and information obtained from the Stormwater Utility Repurposing
program in conjunction with basin and stream specific recommendations obtained from the following
two program efforts:
A. Basin-Specific Stormwater Quality Best Management Practices (BMP)
Selected Plans; and,
B. Stream Restoration and Stability Study and Prioritization with the Multi
Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) Tool.
The BMP Selected Plans include recommendations for the treatment of stormwater within portions
of the City that developed prior to the adoption of stormwater quality criteria. The majority of the BMP
projects include the retrofit of existing stormwater detention ponds to include water quality treatment
facilities. Funding for the construction of the identified BMP and stream restoration projects will be
drawn from existing stormwater fees. This funding request is included in the current 2013/2014
Budgeting for Outcomes (BFO) process for Environmental Health.
21. First Reading of Ordinance No. 126, 2012, Authorizing the Conveyance of City-owned Property
Known as the Maxwell Farm and Related Water Rights Subject to a Conservation Easement and
Authorizing a Related Raw Water Transfer Agreement.
The Natural Areas Department (NAD) purchased the 137-acre Maxwell Farm, along with 12 shares
of North Poudre Irrigation Company (NPIC) water, with the intent of placing it under a conservation
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easement to help conserve a buffer between Fort Collins and Wellington; protect the open space and
scenic values adjacent to I-25; and, sell it as an agricultural property with limited development rights.
These purposes are supported by the Natural Areas Land Conservation and Stewardship Plan, the
Council-adopted master plan for the Department. The land has been leased to Larry Maxwell, the
previous owner, for farming and livestock feeding since the initial purchase in 2009.
Natural Areas and Utilities have worked out an agreement for the NAD to sell eleven of the twelve
NPIC shares to Utilities for approximately 50% of the estimated market value, which is $14,000 per
share (based on recent sales information from NPIC). In exchange, Utilities will enter into a raw water
transfer agreement with the buyer of Maxwell Farm, and per the terms of the agreement, Utilities will
transfer the equivalent of eleven shares of NPIC water on an annual basis to the Maxwell Farm in
perpetuity. The advantage to Utilities is that water decreed solely for agricultural use derived from
other Utilities-owned NPIC shares, can be substituted for water decreed for municipal use derived
from the eleven NPIC shares, which Utilities can use. The buyer will purchase the remaining share
of NPIC water as it is a NPIC policy that a farm must own at least some NPIC water in order to
receive any rented or transferred water. The single NPIC share to be owned by the buyer will also be
tied to the land by the conservation easement agreement.
The funds received from the sale of the land and water will be used to conserve additional land and
water.
22. First Reading of Ordinance No. 127, 2012, Authorizing the Conveyance of City-owned Property
Known as the Vangbo Property Subject to a Conservation Easement.
The Vangbo Property was purchased by the Natural Areas Department (NAD) in 2005 with the intent
to place a conservation easement on the property to conserve the open space and scenic values
along the I-25 corridor and then sell it as an agricultural property with limited development options.
These purposes are supported by the Natural Areas Land Conservation and Stewardship Plan, the
Council-adopted master plan for the Department. The land is currently leased to Alison Person, a
neighboring landowner, for grazing. Staff recommends selling the 105-acre Vangbo property and
associated ditch and water rights with a reserved conservation easement to Alison Person for
$300,000. The conservation easement does not allow any future development, but does give the
landowner the option to request the purchase of one building envelope on the property from a future
City Council. The undeveloped portion would remain in agricultural use.
23. First Reading of Ordinance No. 128, 2012, Authorizing the Conveyance of a Non-Exclusive Drainage
Easement on City Property to Cloud Peak Ranch, LLC.
Cloud Peak Ranch, LLC is planning a 39.53 acre residential development called Mail Creek Crossing
PLD/PD located just north of Bacon Elementary School on South Timberline Road. This development
will require the construction of off-site stormwater outfall improvements on adjacent property to the
north in order to connect with a stormwater pipe in Kechter Road. The alignment of these
improvements will cross the northwest corner of a property owned by the City’s Social Sustainability
Department. The City’s 16-acre property was purchased in 2006 as a Land Bank property and is
currently leased as a residential/horse property. In order to facilitate the installation of the planned
improvements, the developer has requested a 2,346 square foot non-exclusive drainage easement
from the City in the northwest corner of the City property adjacent to Kechter Road.
24. First Reading of Ordinance No. 129, 2012, Authorizing the Conveyance of a Non-Exclusive Utility
Easement on City Property to the Nunn Telephone Company.
Nunn Telephone Company (NTC) currently provides telephone and internet services to portions of
northwest Weld County and northeast Larimer County. With an increase in demand from their
customers for broadband services, NTC has begun upgrading copper based telephone lines to fiber
optic broadband lines. NTC has requested a utility easement from the City of Fort Collins across a
portion of Meadow Springs Ranch in order to install approximately 7.0 miles of fiber optic line as part
of this upgrade project. The proposed easement alignment would follow an abandoned state highway
now used by the City as an access road to the City’s property.
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25. Resolution 2012-101 Authorizing a Revocable Permit for Brinkman Construction, Inc. to Access City
Property to Complete Mitigation Activities for the Construction of Tilden Street.
In 2008, Council adopted Ordinance No. 030, 2008, authorizing the dedication of a portion of City
property located at 2313 Kechter Road as Tilden Street. The property located west of the City
property has been planned as the Kechter Crossing development. Tilden Street is located along the
property boundary between the two properties. The developer of Kechter Crossing, Brinkman
Construction, Inc., plans to begin construction of its development soon, including work within the new
right-of-way of Tilden Street. This work will require the relocation of a number of site improvements
in the right-of-way areas that are owned by the City. City staff has asked the Developer to relocate
and replace a number of these site improvements elsewhere on the City property. The revocable
permit will allow the developer access to the City property to perform the requested mitigation
activities.
26. Resolution 2012-102 Naming Three Alleys Within the Block Bounded by South College Avenue, West
Laurel Street, South Mason Street and West Myrtle Street.
The Downtown Development Authority has completed a capital improvement project to enhance three
public alleys in the aforementioned block. In conjunction with this project, the City of Fort Collins is
preparing to name these three alleys. The three proposed names are “Dalzell Alley,” “Corbin Alley,”
and “Wattles Alley.” If approved, the alley naming will simplify way-finding for pedestrians, bicyclists,
drivers, delivery personnel and emergency responders.
27. Resolution 2012-103 Making Findings of Fact and Related Determinations Regarding the Appeal of
the August 7, 2012 Administrative Hearing Officer’s Decision Regarding the Aspen Heights PDP.
On August 16, 2012, the City of Fort Collins Hearing Officer issued a written decision approving
Aspen Heights PDP, with one condition ensuring proper landscaping associated with the clubhouse.
On August 30, 2012, Mr. Tom Lawton filed a Notice of Appeal seeking redress of the Hearing
Officer’s decision.
On October 30, 2012, City Council voted 5 - 0 to modify the Hearing Officer’s decision by requiring
the following:
1. It shall be a condition of approval of the PDP that the applicant provide a shuttle bus
for use of project residents, with the understanding that if there is insufficient
ridership demand to sustain such shuttle bus, then the applicant may apply for a
minor amendment to the approved Final Plan to reduce or eliminate the shuttle bus
requirements of this condition.
2. It shall be a condition of approval of the P.D.P. that the applicant shall, at the time
of submittal of the Final Plan and in consultation with City staff, enhance the design
of the naturalized drainage channel transecting the property in such a manner as to
provide an increased width and vegetation diversity; and to enhance the regional
stormwater detention pond through variation in grading patterns and vegetation
diversity, to the extent reasonably feasible.
In order to complete the record regarding this appeal, Council should adopt a Resolution making
findings of fact and finalizing its decision on the Appeal.
28. Postponement of Resolution 2012-099 Adopting a Water Supply and Demand Management Policy
to November 20, 2012.
At the October 30, 2012 Adjourned Meeting, Council voted to postpone consideration of this
Resolution to November 6 to allow time for staff to revise the Water Supply and Demand
Management Policy, based on Council’s input. There is not adequate time to make these revisions
and provide supporting material before the publication of the November 6 agenda. Staff requests
postponement of consideration of this Resolution to November 20, 2012.
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29. Routine Deeds.
Three quit claim deeds, encompassing 105 easements within the Southwest Enclave Annexation
from Poudre Valley REA. These easements were transferred to the City along with the purchase of
Poudre Valley REA’s electric systems in the annexation.
30. Routine Easement.
Easement for construction and maintenance of public utilities from TAV Property Management, Inc.,
to install an electric transformer at 504 South College Avenue.
END CONSENT
31. Consent Calendar Follow-up.
This is an opportunity for Councilmembers to comment on items adopted or approved on the Consent
Calendar.
32. Staff Reports.
33. Councilmember Reports.
34. Consideration of Council-Pulled Consent Items.
DISCUSSION ITEMS
The method of debate for discussion items is as follows:
! Mayor introduces the item number and subject; asks if formal presentation will be made
by staff
! Staff presentation (optional)
! Mayor requests citizen comment on the item (five-minute limit for each citizen)
! Council questions of staff on the item
! Council motion on the item
! Council discussion
! Final Council comments
! Council vote on the item
Note: Time limits for individual agenda items may be revised, at the discretion of the Mayor, to ensure
all citizens have an opportunity to speak. Please sign in at the table in the back of the room.
The timer will buzz when there are 30 seconds left and the light will turn yellow. It will buzz again
at the end of the speaker’s time.
35. Consideration of the Appeal of the August 9, 2012 Zoning Board of Appeals Decision to Approve a
Variance to Allow the Existing Off-premise Sign (Billboard) Located in the BNSF Railroad Right of
Way at 190 West Prospect Road to Be Removed and Reinstalled at a New Location Within the Same
Railroad Right of Way at 190 West Prospect Road. (staff: Peter Barnes; 10 minute staff presentation
90 minute discussion)
On August 9, 2012, the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) considered Appeal #2714, submitted by the
City of Fort Collins Engineering Department. This Appeal was for a variance to Section 3.8.7(P) of
the City of Fort Collins Land Use Code (LUC), which prohibits the construction of new off-premise
signs. The variance was requested in order to allow the existing off-premise sign in the BNSF
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way 70 feet west of its current location. The sign’s current location is in direct conflict with the
guideway alignment for the MAX BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) project. The ZBA unanimously approved
the variance request as authorized by Section 2.10.1 of the LUC.
On August 23, 2012, Richard L. Anderson (the Appellant) filed a Notice of Appeal with the City Clerk.
The Appellant alleges that the ZBA:
A. Failed to conduct a fair hearing in that:
1. The Board considered evidence relevant to its findings which was grossly
misleading;
2. The Board substantially ignored its previously established rules of procedure;
3. The Board exceeded its authority and jurisdiction.
B. The Board failed to properly interpret and apply relevant provisions of the Land Use Code.
36. Second Reading of Ordinance No. 114, 2012, Amending Chapter 26 of the City Code to Revise
Electric Rates, Fees and Charges. (staff: Brian Janonis, Lance Smith; no staff presentation; 5 minute
discussion)
The 2013 electric rate increases which average 4.33% are proposed to vary by customer class from
3.35% to 5.33%. The proposed changes will impact individual electric customers more or less than
the customer class averages and will vary by season. This Ordinance was adopted on First Reading
on October 16, 2012, by a vote of 6-1 (Nays: Kottwitz).
37. Resolution 2012-104 Accepting Advisory Opinion and Recommendation No. 2012-2 of the Ethics
Review Board. (staff: Steve Roy; 5 minute staff presentation; 30 minute discussion)
Under City Code Section 2-569, City Councilmembers may present to the Council Ethics Review
Board inquiries regarding the application of state or local ethical rules to actual or hypothetical
situations involving potential conflicts of interest. On October 22, 2012, and October 30, 2012, the
Ethics Review Board met for the purpose of responding to an inquiry submitted to the Board by Mayor
Weitkunat. The question submitted by the Mayor is whether, in the Board’s opinion, she would have
a conflict of interest in participating in upcoming decisions of either the City Council or the Urban
Renewal Authority regarding the possible redevelopment of the Foothills Mall. The Mayor has
presented the question because of the proximity of her residence to the redevelopment site. As
required by the Code, the Board has forwarded its opinion and recommendations to the full Council
for its consideration. Adoption of the Resolution would indicate that the majority of the Council agrees
with the Board’s opinion and recommendations.
38. Consideration of Citizen-Pulled Consent Items.
39. Other Business.
40. Adjournment.
a. Motion to adjourn to 6:00 p.m., Thursday, November 8, 2012.
Every Council meeting will end no later than 10:30 p.m., except that: (1) any item of business commenced
before 10:30 p.m. may be concluded before the meeting is adjourned and (2) the City Council may, by
majority vote, extend a meeting until no later than 12:00 a.m. for the purpose of considering additional items
of business. Any matter which has been commenced and is still pending at the conclusion of the Council
meeting, and all matters scheduled for consideration at the meeting which have not yet been considered
by Council, will be continued to the next regular Council meeting and will be placed first on the discussion
agenda for such meeting.