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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY December 15, 2015
City Council
STAFF
Dan Weinheimer, Policy & Project Manager
SUBJECT
Resolution 2015-114 Adopting the City's 2016 Legislative Policy Agenda.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to consider and adopt the City's 2016 Legislative Policy Agenda. Each year the
Legislative Review Committee (LRC) develops a legislative agenda to assist in the analysis of pending
legislation and regulation. The Legislative Policy Agenda is used as a guide by Council and staff to determine
positions on legislation and regulation pending at the state and federal levels and as a general reference for
the City's state legislators and congressional delegation.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
The Legislative Policy Agenda includes policies on issues that affect the quality of life and governance of our
community. It is used as a guide by Council and staff to determine positions on pending legislation, and as a
general reference for citizens, community organizations, state legislators and congressional delegation. The
2016 Agenda was developed with input from City staff and reviewed by the Legislative Review Committee.
Fort Collins' Legislative Policy Agenda includes 2016 priorities - issues that are of immediate concern to the
City Council and items that are expected come before the 2016 General Assembly session. The Legislative
Policy Agenda also attempts to capture positions on wide-ranging issues that may impact City operations and
community quality of life. These positions reflect a great deal of historical community input, discussion by City
Council's Legislative Review Committee (LRC), the expertise of staff, and statewide policy discussions.
CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS
The Legislative Policy Agenda contains a number of policies that speak to economic impacts. The Finance
section contains several statements that address the need to protect the City’s revenue base. It also calls for
support for legislation “that promotes sustainable economic development.” Other policy statements that
support sound fiscal practices are included throughout the document.
BOARD / COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION
Staff has shared the draft Legislative Policy Agenda with City boards or commissions via email seeking input
and comment. Feedback has been included in the final document as appropriate.
PUBLIC OUTREACH
No public outreach was conducted on this document.
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ATTACHMENTS
1. 2016 Legislative Policy Agenda REDLINE (PDF)
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY AGENDA
2015 2016
Adopted
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TOPIC PAGE
INTRODUCTION 4
FORT COLLINS LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE 5
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW PROCESS 5
2015 2016 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES 6
LEGISLATIVE POLICY STATEMENTS 123
COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD LIVABILITY
AFFORDABLE HOUSING 12
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW AND INSPECTION 13
PLANNING AND LAND USE 13
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY 14
URBAN AGRICULTURE 15
CULTUREAL AND RECREATION
CULTURAL SERVICES 163
PARKS AND RECREATION 163
ECONOMIC HEALTH
FINANCE 175
INVESTMENTS 185
PRIVATIZATION 186
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 186
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
AIR QUALITY 2017
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 2118
NATURAL AREAS AND OPEN LANDS 2119
OIL AND GAS 2219
RECYCLING AND SOLID WASTE 202
UTILITY SERVICES 231
ENERGY 241
WATER SUPPLY AND QUALITY 242
HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
HOME RULE 263
HUMAN RESOURCES 264
RISK MANAGEMENT 274
SOVEREIGN AND GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY 275
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 285
COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD LIVABILITY
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AFFORDABLE HOUSING 27
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW AND INSPECTION 27
PLANNING AND LAND USE 28
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY 29
URBAN AGRICULTURE 29
SAFE COMMUNITY
FIRE PROTECTION 2930
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT 301
MARIJUANA 302
PUBLIC SAFETY 312
TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION 334
CITY LEGISLATIVE STAFF 356
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INTRODUCTION
Fort Collins is a community of more than 1585,3000 residents located at the foot of the
Rocky Mountains along Colorado’s Front Range. Incorporated in 1873, the City has
grown to become the commercial, educational and cultural hub of northern Northern
Colorado. The City adopted a home rule charter in 1954 and operates under a Council-
Manager form of government.
The Fort Collins City Council annually adopts a broad set of policy statements meant to
convey positions on issues that affect the quality of life and the governance of our
community.
The City is a data-driven municipal organization that strives to fulfill its mission,
“Exceptional exceptional service for an exceptional community,” through a vision of
providing world-class municipal services through operational excellence and a culture of
innovation. City leaders seek innovative solutions to issues facing the community and are
often willing to leverage emerging technologies.
The 2015 2016 City of Fort Collins Legislative Policy Agenda identifies a broad range of
important issues for the City of Fort Collins. The Fort Collins City Council annually
adopts a broad set of policy statements meant to convey positions on issues that affect the
quality of life and the governance of our community. The Agenda expresses policies and
positions on issues that affect the quality of life and the governance of our community.
Our policy agenda is structured to address areas of local concern and also to reflect the
strategic planning that guides City of Fort Collins organizational resource allocation and
decision making.
The City’s Legislative Priorities are issues Fort Collins is focused on in the 2015 2016
Colorado General Assembly and United States Congress. These priority topics, similar to
the City’s overall policies, are reviewed and updated annually. Revisions to the policy
agenda and priorities are adopted in November ahead of the Colorado General Assembly
session.
Partnership and interagency collaboration are important methods for achieving optimal
legislative outcomes. On many federal and state issues, Fort Collins shares the concerns
of others within the community, within the region and other communities statewide. In
these cases, Fort Collins will seek opportunities to leverage additional resources and
participate in regional dialogue to achieve shared outcomes.
The City identified seven outcome areas to ensure appropriate and effective resource
allocation supporting the community’s priorities:. Fort Collins’ outcome areas include
Culture and Recreation; , Economic Health,; Environmental Health; , High Performing
Government,; Neighborhood Livability; , Safe Community; , and Transportation. The
Policy Agenda identifies specific City Council-adopted goals associated with the policy
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statements. This alignment is important for City staff to ensure that advocacy supports
specific desired outcomes.
CITY OF FORT COLLINS
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE
The Legislative Review Committee (LRC) is a representative group of Council members
that reviews and reacts to proposed legislation on behalf of City Council and the City. In
taking a position on particular bills, the LRC interprets and applies the various policies
that are included in the Legislative Policy Agenda.
Council Members presently serving on the Legislative Review Committee are:
1. Councilmember Wade TroxellGino Campana, Chair
Councilmember Ross Cunniff
2. Councilmember Lisa PoppawRay Martinez
3. Councilmember Ross Cunniff
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW PROCESS
Bills introduced in the Colorado General Assembly, or United States Congress, and as
well as federal, state or county regulations or rulemakings are reviewed by the Legislative
Policy Manager. Bills, regulations and rules addressing a stated legislative priority, or
adopted policy position, may be brought to the LRC for to discussion of an official City
position. Once a position is adopted on a bill, the Legislative Policy Manager conveys
that information to the appropriate state or federal representative and advocates for the
City’s adopted position.
Staff liaisons support the LRC by contributing expertise in various areas of municipal
service. The input offered by staff experts is invaluable in analyzing impacts of
legislative, regulatory and rulemaking proposals to Fort Collins operations and the
community. Fort Collins also works with community partners to support local projects
and staff collaborates with representatives of other municipalities on mutually-held
priorities. Fort Collins actively seeks innovative partnerships to leverage positive
outcomes for residents.
The City works closely with the Colorado Municipal League (CML) and the National
League of Cities (NLC) on many legislative items facing cities. Fort Collins also works
with the Colorado Association of Municipal Utilities (CAMU), which represents 29
municipal utilities throughout the state on utility issues. In addition, Fort Collins actively
participates in the Colorado Water Congress State Affairs Committee to address water-
related issues.
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LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
Objective: Cooperate with stakeholders on refinement of Urban Renewal
Authority laws
Issue: An Urban Renewal Authority (URA) is a tool in place to identify and
revitalize areas of communities deemed blighted and provide a funding mechanism to
encourage redevelopment. The main funding source for URA is Tax Increment Financing
(TIF) generated through property taxes. In its best intention, urban renewal restores
economic vitality and improves the safety of a designated area. Redeveloping urban areas
is much harder and more expensive than new development in “greenfield sites”, thus the
use of urban renewal and tax increment financing responds to larger, more costly
infrastructure needs. The state of Colorado has empowered local authorities to use Urban
Renewal Authorities to encourage revitalization and the elimination of blight in these
areas.
URA law has been frequently modified by the General Assembly, including many
changes supported by the City. Fort Collins supports dialogue on URA refinement but
does not support bills that would eliminate the use of URA or TIF.
Fort Collins attempts to use URA and TIF judiciously but also recognizes the concerns
raised by counties, special districts and school districts about the use of TIF. URA is an
important and useful tool for Fort Collins in addressing community blight and
encouraging redevelopment rather than sprawl. The City has engaged regional partners in
an attempt to develop an equitable formula and process for utilizing URA in Larimer
County. Fort Collins has sought to identify a mechanism to balance Larimer County costs
for providing service in URA areas and to shared constituents.
2015 URA reform law (HB15-1348) institutes several changes that the City will be
implementing in its URA practices. Key changes to URA law add additional members
from county, special districts and school district to a URA Board and a negotiated use of
tax increment funds before the City could utilize them. Fort Collins is already working on
adopting HB 1348 changes.
The City would like to see clarifications made to HB 1348 as language included in the
new law does not conform to URA statute and it is unclear how this new law impacts
projects already under development.
Objective: Support local control of oil and gas operations
Issue: Fort Collins, like many other Colorado communities, has taken steps to
address oil and gas extraction. Those efforts have been limited by the Colorado Oil and
Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) rules. Fort Collins supports studying and better
understanding the health and community impacts of oil and gas extraction.
Fort Collins seeks the following:
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Increased local flexibility to regulate oil and gas activity within its incorporated
borders
Limiting the proximity of large-scale oil and gas sites to the City limits in order to
minimize community impacts
Mitigation measures that balance developing oil and gas resources with
community environmental and human health
Additional information about the chemicals being injected into the ground,
especially during hydraulic fracturing
Greater knowledge and control of air emissions from extraction processes and
production equipment
Enhanced right for communities to regulate oil and gas as an industrial practice
and therefore apply local zoning practices to operators
Better balance between surface land ownership and mineral rights ownership
Fort Collins intends to use existing programs like the Local Government Designee (LGD)
to its their fullest potential, but will also seek legislative remedies to areas of greatest
concern. Fort Collins will also work with other interested communities to address oil and
gas operation concerns. The City is monitoring the work of the Governor’s appointed Oil
and Gas Task Force and will provide comments as permitted.
Objective: Advocate solutions to nuisance and safety issues related to railroad
proximity
Issue: Communities throughout the United States are wrestling with issues
related to railroad proximity. – Tthese include the transport of hazardous materials, rail
car safety, train horn noise, transparency related to rail cargo and train switching. These
issues affect quality of life for residents and business owners and can result in
catastrophic disasters in cases of derailment.
Fort Collins has two active railroad corridors and is working regionally, through the
Colorado Municipal League (CML) and National League of Cities (NLC), to raise the
profile of rail proximity issues. In addressing rail safety and rail proximity issues, the
City has active relationships with Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) and Union
Pacific (UP) railroad companies and has cultivated a relationship with the federal
regulatory body – the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).
In order to clean our air, reduce auto congestion and improve quality of life, several
federal agencies including the EPA, HUD and the Federal Transit Administration are
encouraging Transit Oriented Development. The idea behind Transit Oriented
Development is to bring residents closer to mass transit lines so that they can use mass
transportation, and so that downtown revitalization can occur. The Mason Corridor Bus
Rapid Transit, which began operation in 2014, is one example. At the same time, the
FRA train horn rule in effect is discouraging the development community and residents
from locating around transit. Reform is needed.
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Trains have regained preference for transporting goods and materials. The increased use
of rail has added pressure to the system and identified several safety concerns – track
maintenance, tanker car safety, and notification of hazardous materials to public safety
leaders. Fort Collins will work to the following goals at a state and national level:
Engagement with railroad companies
Development of a “proximity issues” dialogue between railroad and local
governments on a broad suite of topics
Notification about hazardous material shipments passing through communities
Ensuring track maintenance and train car safety
Collaboratione with railroads to train local emergency personnel
Solution-oriented use of technology and innovation to improve conflict areas
Promote Encouraging the FRA to improveement of existing federal and state
regulations to identify reasonable safety protections
Objective: Support allowing local governments to provide broadband and
enhanced communication services
Issue: In 2005, the Colorado General Assembly passed SB 152, “Competition in
Utility and Entertainment Services.” The legislature’s stated intent behind the act was
predictability, uniformity, and fairness in the cable television, telecommunications and
high-speed Internet access industries, especially where affected by municipal actions.
SB 152 prohibits local governments from directly or indirectly providing cable television
service, telecommunications service or advanced service. “Advanced service” is defined
as “high-speed internet access capability in excess of two hundred fifty six kilobits per
second both upstream and downstream.” Wired and wireless broadband services are
included in this category.
Fort Collins Information Technology Department can provide wired and wireless
broadband services to City offices and City-owned facilities, but is precluded from doing
so by state law. The City supports modifying or repealing the provisions of SB05-152 to
allow municipalities to provide this “advanced service” in their own buildings and
facilities.
Objective: Support marijuana law clarifications and alignment with Colorado
Constitution
Issue: The passage and implementation of Amendment 64 legalized adult use
marijuana in Colorado. The Fort Collins City Council approved limited adult use
marijuana businesses and sales in addition to existing medical marijuana businesses.
Fort Collins seeks clarification on the following items:
Conflicts that exist between state and federal laws regarding marijuana possession
Enforcement of the new law and its impacts on local staff and public safety
resources
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Rules pertaining to packaging and labeling marijuana and products containing
marijuana
Effectively funding prevention of under-21 possession and use
Community public safety
Limiting THC content per serving size and restricting packaging to a single
serving
In addition to adult use marijuana, communities across the United States that have
authorized medical marijuana are struggling with implementation and the need for a
single, viable distribution system. At the core of the issues with both medical and adult
use marijuana is the classification of the drug. Marijuana is currently classified as a
Schedule 1 drug., Tthis designation means it cannot be prescribed by a doctor or handled
through the same distribution channels as other prescribed drugs. As a result, different
states have adopted approaches in conflict with federal laws. In Colorado, medical
marijuana may be recommended by a doctor but not prescribed. Work is needed at the
federal level to clarify this issue. The federal classification should be re-evaluated to
consider allowing more medical research. If it is determined that marijuana fits one of the
other classifications and does have medical benefits, it could be included in the existing
drug delivery system.
Objective: Participate in federal, state and regional efforts to foster resilient
communities
Issue: Making communities more resilient to disaster and the effects of a
changing climate has become more important to Colorado communities over the last
several years as natural disasters have caused significant human and property loss.
Resilience has become a term used to describe hardening vulnerable community
infrastructure and preparing for predictable hazards in order to soften the blow on citizens
and infrastructure.
Making Fort Collins and Northern Colorado more resilient involves providing decision-
makers hazard mitigation analysis and scientific data, then using that information to
invest in complementary systems. Northern Colorado’s experience is that resilience must
be a regional effort that pays off through coordinated advanced planning and investment.
Resiliency efforts are important because they impact a broad set of critical services
including:
Land use
Utility operations
Transportation infrastructure
Sustainability services
Health
Safety
Emergency Response
Disaster recovery
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Fort Collins has adopted aggressive climate action and greenhouse gas reduction goals.
The City supports policies and legislation helping communities to achieve specific
greenhouse gas reductions, gather scientific data supporting climate actions and to invest
in needed infrastructure to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
City staff are working to develop action items to achieve the Climate Action Plan goals.
These goals may be assisted and promoted through legislative and regulatory actions.
Success in achieving the City’s climate action goals may be enhanced through
partnership with communities that have adopted similarly aggressive climate action and
adaptation goals. Action in the transportation and energy sectors will be important drivers
for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving both climate and resilience goals.
The Fort Collins community is just one member of a regional “waste shed” in Northern
Colorado. The City acknowledges this interdependence, and the role that state legislation
can, and should, play in applying broad measures such as setting a state waste diversion
goal and helping to support related strategies, which could also serve to reduce carbon
emissions and create opportunities for waste-to-energy applications when ultra-low
pollution conversion technology is used.
Objective: Support regional transportation infrastructure connectivity with an
emphasis on funding an integrated, multi-modal system
Issue: Funding for vital transportation infrastructure continues to be a high
priority for the City of Fort Collins. Transportation infrastructure is a critical element to
supporting community and regional economic health, safety and quality of life.
The City supports a long-term reauthorization of the nation’s surface transportation law
with a focus on transit, livable community planning, comprehensive regional
investments, revitalization of existing infrastructure, pedestrian and bicycle
infrastructure, and approaches that decrease petroleum consumption and reduce carbon
pollution.
We strongly support preservation of federal funding levels and full allocation of federal
motor fuel taxes and other federal transportation trust funds for their intended purposes.
In addition, we urge development of a new, more stable, long-range transportation
funding mechanism that doesn’t rely upon fuel tax revenues. Fuel tax is no longer a
sustainable method of funding the nation’s transportation infrastructure needs.
Fortneeds. Fort Collins seeks a solution to secure critical funding of the nation’s highway
and bridge projects. Allowing the Highway Trust Fund to become insolvent would be
devastating to the City’s transportation infrastructure and have impacts throughout the
Northern Colorado economy.
A key transportation funding priority for Fort Collins is Interstate 25 (I-25) in Northern
Colorado. The highway has become a pinch point in the regional transportation inventory
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that limits access to and from Fort Collins for residents, visitors, and the delivery of
goods and services. Immediate funding to widen north I-25 is needed to sustain the
region’s economic growth. The City is an active part of the I-25 Coalition whose primary
goal is to accelerate construction of a third lane in each direction of I-25 as identified in
the I-25 North Project (from State Highway 6 to State Highway 14).
Actions that may expedite the improvement and expansion of northern sections of I-25
include:
A Transportation Revenue Anticipation Notes (TRANS) bond II ballot initiative
(TRANS bonds were previously used to help fund the $1.67 billion T-REX I-25
improvements in the south Denver Metro area)
State of Colorado General Fund dollars going to transportation (maintenance &
capital construction)
Modification to SB 228 for maintenance as long as it’s tied to TRANS bond (SB
228 provides a mechanism for the State to transfer funds from the General Fund
to CDOT for strategic transportation capital infrastructure projects)
Extending SB 228 for 10 years beyond projected five-year transfer required in law
Tax credit legislation for specific highway projects
The City supports a long-term reauthorization of the nation’s surface transportation law
with a focus on transit, livable community planning, comprehensive regional
investments, revitalization of existing infrastructure, pedestrian and bicycle
infrastructure, and approaches that decrease petroleum consumption and reduce carbon
pollution.
Objective: Pursue federal policies and resources needed to attain City-adopted
climate action goals
Issue: Fort Collins has adopted aggressive climate action and greenhouse gas
reduction goals. The City supports policies and legislation helping communities to
achieve specific greenhouse gas reductions, gather scientific data supporting climate
actions and to invest in needed infrastructure to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The "Empowering Local Clean Energy Action" federal policy agenda identifies key
policies and resources needed for local governments to sustain cleaner energy progress.
These include investments in federal programs such as the Department of Energy’s
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants, EPA's Climate Showcase
Communities, HUD's Sustainable Communities, and other programs that provide direct
support for local sustainability initiatives.
Fort Collins supports clarification at the federal and state levels of Property Assessed
Clean Energy (PACE) programs. PACE financing, an alternative to a loan, is designed to
encourage the installation of renewable-energy systems and improve energy efficiency by
helping property owners overcome the barrier of high up-front energy equipment and
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installation costs. Home energy efficiency can be a significant contributor to community
energy efficiency and GHG-reduction goals.
Objective: Support comprehensive water resource management
Issue: Water resources from the Mountain West to California are stressed by
many factors – environmental, population growth and aging infrastructure. Local water
resource planning efforts ensure adequate supply to residents through managing the
City’s water rights portfolio, encouraging increased efficiency and expanding storage.
Fort Collins will support efforts to address water needs, preserve its water rights
portfolio, and to encourage conservation of water resources. The conservation of water
resources extends to support for Cache la Poudre River restoration projects.
Fort Collins will participate in the developmentimplementation of the Colorado Water
Plan and the development of the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)
Waters of the United States rulemakings affecting water storage, use , quality and
conservation.
Objective: Support waste stream management, reduction and resource
strategies
Issue: The Fort Collins community is just one member of a regional “waste
shed” in Northern Colorado. The City acknowledges this interdependence, and the role
that state legislation can, and should, play in applying broad measures such as setting a
state waste diversion goal and helping to support related strategies, which could also
serve to reduce carbon emissions and create opportunities for waste-to-energy
applications when ultra-low pollution conversion technology is used.
The City relies on regional and state-wide infrastructure and systems for conventional
landfill disposal alternatives such as commercial-scale composting, bio-digesters,
recycled-content manufacturers, and specialty landfills. We can be more effective at
meeting the community’s waste reduction goals through partnerships aimed at reduction,
management and resources strategies.
HB07-1288, the Recycling Resources Economic Opportunity Act, will sunset in 2017.
The City supports extending the provisions of this bill, which established a grant fund for
recycling projects using revenue from a seven-cents/ton surcharge on trash placed in
Colorado landfills. The City supports the grant program and further seeks steps to
increase funding for this high-performing recycling program.
Objective: Support a comprehensive approach to reduce the impacts of poverty,
housing affordability and homelessness
Issue: Poverty and homelessness are persistent issues in Fort Collins and across
Colorado. Fort Collins is committed to making homelessness rare, short-lived and non-
recurring. The City is interested in developing local solutions to these persistent problems
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through collaboration and innovation. The City plays both a convening and leadership
role among the many community service providers – seeking to foster sustainable
solutions to complex social issues through a combination of City involvement and
leadership.
Fort Collins supports solutions to address poverty within the community such as:
Create Fully resource an state affordable housing fund
Implement funding for the Earned Income Tax Credit
Fix the Child Care Tax Credit
Develop or expand programs that ensure a smooth transition from foster care to
independence
Increase funding for mental health care/programs
Increase development of condominiums by addressing construction defect law
reform
Adopt standardized state-level tools to respond to homelessness
Pilot innovative programs to address housing and homelessness
Objective: Support the innovation economy
Issue: Innovation is a key attribute of the City organization and is also important
to the community. Fort Collins has numerous drivers of innovation, intellectual property
and inventions with an educated resident base, Colorado State University, federal
research labs, and a long list of innovative companies. As a result, Fort Collins has a
culture and support system that nurtures an innovation economy with the City often
serving as a living laboratory for ideas and new technologies.
The City will maintain and enhance its innovation economy through:
Supporting efforts to simplify the commercialization of intellectual property
Efforts to increase the available capital to support innovation and new business
formation
Efforts that support the spin-off and development of intellectual property from
research institutes, private business, and higher education
Efforts to encourage the retention of new and innovative businesses in the
community
Supporting business incubation, primarily through the commercialization of
intellectual property, with strong partnerships
Application of innovative technologies and approaches to improve city City
programs and services
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY STATEMENTS
Community and Neighborhood Livability
Strategic Outcome
Provide a high quality built environment and support quality, diverse neighborhoods
Strategic Objectives
1. Improve access to a broad range of quality housing that is safe, accessible and
affordable.
2. Preserve the significant historical character of the community.
3. Direct and guide growth in the community through appropriate planning,
annexation, land use and development review processes.
4. Preserve and provide responsible access to nature.
5. Preserve and enhance the City’s sense of place.
6. Promote health and wellness within the community.
7. Leverage and improve collaboration with other service agencies to address the
prevention of homelessness, poverty issues and other high priority human service
needs.
8. Expand organizational and community knowledge about diversity, and embrace
cultural differences.
9. Develop clear goals, strategic definition and description of the City’s social
sustainability role within the community.
10. Address neighborhood parking issues.
11. Maintain and enhance attractive neighborhoods through City services, innovative
enforcement techniques, and voluntary compliance with City codes and
regulations.
12. Foster positive and respectful neighbor relationships and open communication, as
well as provide and support conflict resolution.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The City of Fort Collins supports policy and funding mechanisms that help the City
develop and maintain affordable housing for our community.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Maintain or enhance current levels of funding for affordable housing throughout
Colorado.
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2. Increase local government’s ability to regulate, manage or generate alternative
sources of funding for affordable housing, including public-private partnerships.
3. Protect the rights of low-income and/or disabled residents in tenant-landlord
disputes, especially as it relates to safety issues.
4. Retain flexibility for City to adopt and enforce rental terms that allow it to
appropriately maintain and manage City-owned affordable rental properties.
5. Amend construction defect laws to reasonably balance safe and reliable housing
with needed condominium construction.
6. Increase the amount of affordable, accessible, sustainable and high-quality
housing in communities.
7. Develop strategies that balance the cost of services provided to the chronically
homeless with the cost of providing permanent supportive housing.
8. Create a standardized statewide approach to addressing homelessness.
9. Invest in innovative approaches to address the causes of homelessness.
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW AND INSPECTION
Fort Collins City Council adopts a land use code, zoning and new and existing property
inspection protocol. The City supports retention of home-rule control in aligning
development review and inspections with local priorities. In recent sessions, state
legislators have introduced measures aimed at having local inspectors provide inspection
for building types outside existing responsibilities without additional resources provided
to conduct this work.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Financially compensate jurisdictions or agencies for additional work of
inspectors through fees or other means.
2. Give local governments choices in accepting additional inspection work.
3. Allow local governments to determine the time needed to conduct
development review and inspection timelines.
PLANNING AND LAND USE
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Effective local land use planning and land development regulation contributes to the
quality of life enjoyed primarily by Fort Collins residents, yet shared regionally within
Larimer County. State legislation can influence local governments’ ability to develop
and implement land use plans for their communities.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Require regional cooperation in land use and transportation planning, and foster
sustainable development, without unduly constraining the City’s home rule
powers.
2. Prohibit the annexation of land that is located within the boundaries of a Growth
Management Area that was legally established by an intergovernmental
agreement between a municipality and a county by any municipality not a party to
the agreement.
3. Limit the definition of a compensable taking and/or the definition of vested
property rights beyond the provisions of existing law.
4. Retain local government authority to impose development impact fees.
5. Increase cities’ ability to regulate industrial land uses like oil and gas exploration
and extraction.
6. Foster equitable public housing policies that balance protection of tenants and
landlords.
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
Fort Collins has implemented a triple-bottom line-oriented Sustainability Service Area in
an effort to ensure community resources are allocated by considering equally human,
environmental and economic benefits. Social Sustainability is the practice of ensuring
healthy social systems so that people in our community can thrive. We do this through
programs, policies, and partnerships that provide equity and opportunities for all.
Therefore the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Maintain or increase the funds available through the state and federal government
for community-focused non-profits to provide human services and housing
support.
2. Adequately fund K-12 and public post-secondary institutions to ensure
opportunity for youth.
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3. Provide funding for before and after school programs and school out days aimed
at at-risk populations and low- to moderate-income households.
4. Enhance neighbor relations by improving the resources available to community
mediation and restorative justice programs.
5. Provide communities with resources to address chronic homelessness.
6. Provide reasonable accommodation and expand access for special populations,
including individuals with disabilities, seniors, at-risk youth, people with mental
health needs, and households needing affordable childcare.
URBAN AGRICULTURE
In 2011, City Plan, our community's comprehensive plan, was updated and contained
four goals related to local food production. Staff has worked to align our policies and
regulations with the goals outlined in our comprehensive plan. We have updated the Land
Use Code to permit urban agriculture in all zone districts, allow farmers markets in more
zone districts, allow a greater number and types of animals to be raised, and exempted
hoop houses from the building permit process in order to facilitate year-round production.
The City has also been an active participant in the Northern Colorado Food Cluster which
convenes stakeholders to advance local food initiatives. Locally grown food is a critical
step towards a more sustainable community.
Therefore the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Provide options for urban farmers to have longer-term access to the land required
for food production.
2. Provide all citizens access to healthy foods.
3. Address supply chain needs to support urban farmers.
4. Diversify the production, consumption and distribution of local food products.
5. Adopt food production practices that support innovative and efficient irrigation
practices.
Cultureal and Recreation
Strategic Outcome
Fort Collins provides diverse cultural and recreational amenities
Strategic Objectives
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1. Improve low and moderate income citizen access to, and participation in, City
programs and facilities
2. Develop effective marketing strategies that drive optimal attendance and revenue
3. Develop effective Operation and Maintenance (O&M) funding alternatives for
City subsidized facilities and programs
4. Maintain and enhance the current culture, recreation and parks systems
5. Plan, design and implement citywide park, recreation and trail improvements
6. Develop a clear strategic definition and description of the City’s role in the
culture and arts while leveraging partnerships with other community
organizations
7. Promote a healthy community and responsible access to nature
CULTURAL SERVICES
The City recognizes that art and culture are important to the quality of life in our
community and is committed to providing the citizens of Fort Collins with excellent
cultural services.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Fund cultural services activities promoting the education, entertainment and
enrichment of the community.
2. Facilitate the creation, performance and presentation of the arts.
3. Protect and preserve our cultural heritage.
4. Expand access and inclusion for all citizens to cultural events.
PARKS AND RECREATION
The City is committed to providing the community with excellent parks and recreation
services and facilities. Our citizens enjoy a better quality of life, improved health, less
crime and a greater sense of community because of our quality parks and recreation
programs.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Maintain or enhance funding for parks, trails, forestry, horticulture and recreation
services and facilities.
2. Provide maximum local discretion to use Great Outdoors Colorado and other
sources to fund municipal government projects addressing local needs and
priorities.
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3. Sustain availability of Great Outdoors Colorado grants to municipalities in equal
or greater funding levels.
4. Enhance the City’s ability to provide quality parks and recreation services and
facilities for its citizens.
5. Enhance the protection of community trees and natural assets against invasive
species, pests and other threats.
6. Expand access and inclusion for all citizens to community recreational
opportunities.
ECONOMIC HEALTH
Strategic Outcome
Promote a healthy, sustainable economy reflecting community values
Strategic Objectives
1. Align economic health goals and strategy across all levels of the organization and
refine and agree upon the economic tools the City uses
2. Improve policies and programs to retain, expand, incubate and attract primary
employers where consistent with City goals
3. Support workforce development and community amenities initiatives that meet
the needs of employers within the City
4. Improve effectiveness through collaboration with economic-health oriented
regional partners
5. Sustain high water quality to support the community and water-dependent
businesses
6. Maintain utility systems and services; infrastructure integrity; and stable,
competitive rates
7. Support sustainable infill and redevelopment to meet climate action strategies
8. Preserve the City’s sense of place
9. Provide transparent, predictable and efficient processes for citizens and businesses
interacting with the City
10. Address Downtown parking issues identified in the adopted Parking Plan,
including funding, convenient access, and integrated transit and alternative mode
solutions
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11. Encourage the development of reliable, ultra-high speed internet services
throughout the community
FINANCE
As a municipality, the City of Fort Collins faces many complex financial issues. Strong
fiscal planning, prudent debt management and preservation of the City’s revenue base are
vital in maintaining and improving the City’s financial health. Considering the known
impacts of legislation on the City’s business community can help foster a stronger tax
base and retain a strong quality of life.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Maintain or expand municipal authority to establish alternative funding
mechanisms, including financing tools such as public improvement fees (PIF) and
certificates of participation (COP).
2. Increase funding for higher education, specifically Colorado State University and
Front Range Community College.
3. Promote the equitable treatment of sales and use taxes to residents and
corporations residing or doing business in Colorado by limiting exemptions.
4. Recognize the importance of sales and use tax to local, self-collecting
municipalities and equitably distribute sales tax collections on e-commerce
transactions.
5. Maintain or increase the City’s revenue base (sales, use and property taxes).
INVESTMENTS
The Fort Collins City Council has adopted investment policies to be used by the City.
The policies are reviewed and updated periodically to ensure the safety and quality of the
portfolio to maintain liquidity and to maximize portfolio earnings.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Protect, without unnecessarily restricting, the government entities’ investment
portfolios.
2. Provide adequate transparency of the City’s investment activity.
3. Provide municipalities freedom to participate in investments that meet their
adopted strategic objectives.
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4. Does not restrict cities’ ability to adopt their own investment policies.
PRIVATIZATION
The City of Fort Collins utilizes outside contracts for procurement of many goods and
services. This practice of privatization provides citizens with a balance of quality and cost
efficiency.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Enable cities to choose the provision of services through private enterprise in a
manner that fosters cost effective, sustainable, quality services.
1.2.Maintain local control concerning the awarding of contracts and the
accountability of local officials for those actions.
1.3.Reject mandates that increase the complexity and cost of services without
improving those services.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Fort Collins seeks to maintain a healthy and resilient economic base of businesses. The
City works closely with businesses to retain and invest in alignment with the Council’s
Action Plan. A healthy and resilient economy for Fort Collins will include:
Diverse jobs that enable citizens and businesses to thrive
Reflects the values of our unique community in a changing world
An innovative, creative, and entrepreneurial atmosphere
Strong partnerships and collaboration with the private sector, educational
institutions, and other organizations
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Promote sustainable economic development.
2. Retain local governments’ use of tax increment financing as a tool to support
Downtown Development Authorities and Urban Renewal Authorities, taking into
consideration the land use impacts of such legislation (e.g., sprawl) and the
compelling interests and concerns of other taxing entities.
3. Adopt clarifying language to HB15-1348 to address ambiguity and confusion
created by the drafters. Specifically, address standard use of terms and arbitration
process, and ensure intent that the law does not impact projects already underway.
4. Encourage adopting innovative solutions to governmental and community
problems.
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Strategic Outcome
Promote, protect and enhance a healthy and sustainable environment
Strategic Objectives
1. Improve and protect wildlife habitat and the ecosystems of the Poudre
River and other urban streams
2. Achieve environmental goals using the Sustainability Assessment
framework
3. Implement indoor and outdoor air quality improvement initiatives
4. Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by creating a built environment
focused on green building and mobile emission reductions
5. Demonstrate progress toward achieving net zero energy within the
community and the City organization using a systems approach
6. Engage citizens in a way to educate and change behavior toward more
sustainable living practices
7. Increase the community’s resiliency and preparedness for changes in
climate, weather and resource availability
8. Protect and monitor water quality, and implement appropriate
conservation efforts and long-term water storage capability
9. Meet or exceed all environmental regulations
10. Conserve and restore biodiversity and habitat
11. Demonstrate progress toward achieving zero waste within the community
and the City organization
AIR QUALITY
The City’s Air Quality Plan establishes a strong overall goal to “continually improve Fort
Collins air quality.”
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Adopt programs and policies that improve public health and air quality.
2. Ensure air quality standards are protective of public health and welfare.
3. Enhance local government authority to improve air quality beyond minimum
State state or fFederal requirements.
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4. Promote strategies to improve regional air quality, recognizing that air pollution
does not follow jurisdictional boundaries.
5. Assure that fFederal, sState and cCounty agencies have adequate authority and
resources (funding and personnel) to enforce air quality regulations.
6. Promote voluntary actions to reduce air pollution.
7. Reduce vehicle emissions by:
Using the price mechanisms of the free market to shift citizen and business
travel behavior toward actions that reduce vehicle emissions and vehicle miles
of travel, including removing hidden cost subsidies to motor vehicle users
Employing economic incentives, and disincentives and other market
approaches that support clean air
Encouraging behavior changes, such as reducing vehicle idling of vehicles
Implementing State state motor vehicle emissions testing programs consistent
with City air quality goals
8. Provide authority for local governments to implement vehicle emissions
reductions programs.
9. Strengthen tailpipe emission and fuel economy standards for all vehicles
including reducing the impact of “rolling coal” and nitrous oxide emissions.
10. Promote advanced low emission vehicle technology.
11. Encourage or promote lower carbon alternative fuels.
12. Reduce or eliminate residential wood smoke emissions in order to achieve
compliance with air quality standards.
13. Reduce fossil fuel consumption in the transportation and building sector.
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
The City of Fort Collins encourages local, state and national efforts to protect and
enhance our environment. Additionally, the City has a policy goal to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions 20% percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 80% percent below 2005
levels by 2030 and 100% percent below 2005 levels by 2050. The goals call for Fort
Collins to be carbon neutral by 2050.
Therefore the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Enhance Fort Collins’ resilience to impacts of climate change.
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2. Establish greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets.
3. Establish market-based incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
4. Develop strategies to prevent pollution.
5. Maintain and protect the Colorado self-audit law.
6. Evaluate and address impacts of climate change on water demand and supply.
NATURAL AREAS AND OPEN LANDS
The City has a vigorous program to protect natural areas and other important open lands
within Fort Collins, within our Community Growth Management Area, and regionally.
The City works in partnership with other communities, Larimer County, private land
trusts, Great Outdoors Colorado, community groups, and state and federal agencies to
achieve community and regional conservation goals.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Maintain or enhance tax incentives available to private landowners for voluntary
land conservation.
2. Expand the effectiveness of existing protection for wetlands, wildlife habitats, and
other sensitive natural areas.
3. Provide additional funding for land conservation programs.
4. Protect the Cache la Poudre River.
5. Increase the availability of Great Outdoors Colorado grants to municipalities in
amounts equal to or greater than are currently offered.
OIL AND GAS
Oil and gas extraction activity and associated health and environmental impacts are a
concern for Fort Collins and many communities in along the Front Range of Colorado.
Fort Collins hasThere is a portion of a small oil field within its Fort Collins’ incorporated
boundaries, and hasthe City has entered into an Operator Agreement, or Memoranduma
of Understanding (MOU), that stipulates the operations, maintenance and inspection
process for that operator’s local holdings. Citizens in Fort Collins residents have
expressed continuing concern about the human and environmental health impacts from
oil and gas operations, and particularly from the hydraulic fracturing treatment used on
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most Colorado wells. In November 2013, voters approved a five-year moratorium on oil
and gas extraction in order to study its property value and human health impacts.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Encourage state, federal or academic studies evaluating the impacts of oil and gas
operations on human health and property values.
2. Establish baseline air pollutant levels and understand the ongoing contributions of
the oil and gas industry to air pollution.
3. Provide local government the authority to inspect oil and gas sites and ensure
operator compliance through enforcement of federal, state and local regulations.
4. Allow communities to understand and evaluate impacts of oil and gas on water
quality.
5. Allow greater local regulation of oil and gas exploration activities within
municipal boundaries.
6. Better balance surface ownership with mineral right ownership.
7. Allow local governments the ability to apply municipal zoning on oil and gas
extraction and storage activities.
8. Maintain the current formula allocation of severance tax to impacted jurisdictions
so that they might address impacts from resource extraction.
RECYCLING AND SOLID WASTE
The City of Fort Collins endorses a multi-pronged approach to waste minimization that
includes recycling, re-use, composting and source reduction. Additionally, the City has
adopted a goal of diverting 75% percent of community waste by 2020; 90% percent by
2025 and 100% percent by 2030.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Clarify and broaden the regulatory authority of local government to ensure the
efficient management of recyclable material and solid waste.
2. Encourage integrated waste management planning and implementation, including
but not limited to creation of a State state waste diversion goal.
3. Provide incentives and funding for programs that promote waste reduction, reuse
and recycling, and development of related infrastructure.
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4. Enable “buy recycled” or “environmentally preferable purchasing” policies for
government agency procurement.
5. Continue or increase funding for programs to collect and monitor data on trash
volumes, rates of diversion from landfill disposal and economic impacts of
recycling.
6. Require greater producer responsibility, such as “take back” regulations that assist
consumers to appropriately recycle electronic equipment (e-waste).
7. Establish a deposit fee on beverage containers and that would be used to pay for
recycling programs.
8. Strengthen the “renewable energy” standard; oppose expanding the definition to
include pyrolysis (burning of materials).
9. Minimize waste by developing methods to use waste as an asset, recognizing the
economic benefits and job creation opportunities that occur when resource
recovery is developed as an alternative to landfill disposal for waste products.
10. Partner with neighboring agencies and stakeholders to create facilities and
infrastructure for regionally managing waste to its “highest and best” use.
UTILITY SERVICES
It is critical that the City operate its electric distribution, drinking water, stormwater and
wastewater services in a financially sound, reliable, safe and environmentally acceptable
manner. Like other municipal utilities across the country, Fort Collins is faced with many
new and evolving challenges associated with changes in the industry, the agereplacement
and security of its infrastructure and the necessity of managing a changingdevelopment
and retention of a knowledgeable workforce.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
ENERGY
1. Maintain or improve the reliability of energy delivery to all customers.
2. Promote energy affordability and safety for residents, businesses and institutions.
3. Support reductions of the community’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from energy
use in accordance with the Climate Action Plan (CAP) Framework (March 2015).
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Current community GHG goals are a reduction of 20 percent from 2005 levels by
2020, 80 percent by 2030 and carbon neutral by 2050.
4. Retain more of our community’s energy expenditures in the local economy.
5. Foster local economic opportunity in energy efficiency, production and operation.
6. Increase our community’s resilience to potential energy and climate related
disruptions.
7. Maintain infrastructure security while minimizing restriction to the Utility’s ability to
manage security as an integral part of the system.
8. Provide technical assistance to local government that balances local design and
implementation of greenhouse gas reduction strategies.
9. Establish uniform standards for the reduction of carbon emissions.
10. Remove financing barriers for energy efficiency, and encourage and fund energy
efficiency and conservation while allowing local customization of the programs.
11. Reduce community energy use and net energy use of existing buildings.
12. Incent renewable energy production, including wind power, and provide for
“State Implementation Plan” credits for renewable energy (excluding residential
wood burning and corn-based ethanol) and energy efficiency.
13. Reject attempts to prevent or inhibit provision of municipal electric service in
newly annexed areas.
14. Foster smart grid technology adoption and grid modernization.
WATER SUPPLY AND QUALITY
1. Maintain or expand the authority delegated to the sState to administer federally
mandated water, stormwater and wastewater environmental regulatory programs
(primacy).
2. Enact reasonable water quality control regulations that are cost effective and can
show tangible benefits.
3. Enable local watershed protection planning.
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4. Provide cities the flexibility to enhance in-stream flows to preserve or improve the
natural environment of the stream while protecting the integrity of Colorado’s
appropriation doctrine and City water supply.
5. Recognize the importance of infrastructure security while minimizing restriction to
the Utility’s ability to manage security as an integral part of the system.
6. Stipulate adequate funding for local governments to implement mandated programs.
7. Remove barriers to financing for water conservation projects.
8. Fund recovery and treatment of Cache la Poudre and other waterways impacted
natural disasters.
9. Enable the City to develop and protect its water supply under Colorado’s
appropriation doctrine without adversely affecting in-stream flows or the natural
environment of the stream.
High Performing Government
Strategic Outcome
Deliver an efficient, innovative, transparent, effective and collaborative city government
Strategic Objectives
1. Improve organizational capability and effectiveness – professional development,
leadership, change management, strategic thinking, fiscal literacy and staff
engagement.
2. Improve core Human Resources systems and develop a total reward system.
3. Align similar jobs and skill sets across the organization to address succession
planning and career progression.
4. Strengthen methods of public engagement and reach all segments of the
community.
5. Optimize the use of technology to drive efficiency and productivity, and to
improve services.
6. Enhance the use of performance metrics to assess results.
7. Develop and implement enterprise-wide processes in appropriate areas – “Plan,
Do, Check, Act” process improvement tool, safety, strategic planning, council and
strategic plan tracking tool, budgeting, project management.
8. Assess effectiveness of safety initiatives, develop and implement safety initiatives
to achieve safety goals, and continue to focus on employee health and wellness.
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9. Improve productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, customer service and citizen
satisfaction in all areas of the municipal organization.
10. Implement leading-edge and innovative practices that drive performance
excellence and quality improvements across all Service Areas.
11. Proactively influence policy at other levels of government regulation.
12. Promote a values-driven organizational culture that reinforces ethical
behavior, exercises transparency and maintains the public trust.
13. Continuously improve the City’s governance process.
HOME RULE
The City of Fort Collins is a home rule municipality under Article XX (Article 20) of the
Colorado Constitution, which grants home rule municipalities “full right of self-
government in local and municipal matters.” Home rule authority affords the citizens of
Fort Collins greater access to government and increased opportunity for participation and
contribution to the decision decision-making process.
Home rule is of utmost importance to the City of Fort Collins. The City recognizes,
however, that there are particular areas in which insistence on local control may be
untimely or unwise. Therefore, proposed modifications must be reviewed on a case-by-
case basis to determine when it is in the City's best interest to assert home rule authority
and when the City should support statewide intervention. For example, the City must be
free to regulate local activities that primarily impact the area within the City's boundaries,
such as the speed of local traffic or the effects of particular land use developments. On
the other hand, the cumulative effect of these and other activities has substantial
statewide ramifications thatwhich may call for statewide regulation, so that, for example,
state regulation may be needed to effectively manage overall growth and development in
the state, traffic congestion in major transportation corridors and environmental quality.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Strengthen home rule authority of municipal governments.
2. Reject State or Federal intervention in matters of local concern and which that
unnecessarily or adversely affect the City’s ability to manage pursuant to its home
rule authority.
HUMAN RESOURCES
The City of Fort Collins is committed to the safety and well-being of its employees. The
City works diligently to be an efficient and responsible steward of tax dollars while
ensuring that employees receive fair and competitive compensation and benefits. The
City believes that its citizens, through their elected representatives on City Council, are in
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the best position to determine appropriate City employee compensation, benefits, and
policies.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Enhance the City’s ability to decide employment issues, including collective
bargaining, arbitration, compensation, benefits and leaves.
2. Expand the City’s ability to offer health, welfare and wellness services for
employees.
3. Maintain current state funding for police officer death and disability benefits.
4. Reject returning employees with defined contribution plans to defined benefit
plans if there is a cost to local government.
RISK MANAGEMENT
The City of Fort Collins recognizes the dual purpose of the workers’ compensation
system – providing benefits promptly to injured employees in a cost-effective manner and
minimizing costly litigation. Council also recognizes that the City’s self-insurance
program is a cost- efficient method to insure workers’ compensation and that government
intervention or taxation can negatively impact the City.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Improve administrative efficiency within the Division of Workers’ Compensation.
2. Resist increased insurance premium costs to employers.
3. Limit or reduce administrative burdens or taxes to self-insurance programs.
4. Limit insurance claim litigation.
5. Increase the City’s options and ability to manage workers’ compensation claims;
oppose actions like removing existing offsets to workers’ compensation benefits
or limiting the City’s ability to designate treating physicians.
6. Reject efforts to presumptively expand workers’ compensation coverage to
illnesses or injuries that are not work related.
SOVEREIGN AND GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY
The Fort Collins City Council recognizes that the complexity and diversity of City
operations and services required to meet the needs of the citizens of Fort Collins may
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expose the City and its officers and employees to liability for damage and injury. The
Council further recognizes that City officers and employees must be confident that they
have the City’s support in the lawful and proper performance of their assigned duties and
responsibilities.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Protect the interests of municipalities and their officers and employees in the
lawful and proper performance of their duties and responsibilities.
2. Discourage baseless and frivolous claims and demands made against
municipalities, their officers and employees.
3. Maintain or enhance municipal liability protections and municipal immunity.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
The City of Fort Collins encourages a competitive, open market for cable and
telecommunications services in order to ensure the public has access to a variety of
programming and services at the lowest cost possible.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statement:
1. Maintain and enhance local franchising authority to preserve local governments’
ability to negotiate in the public interest for cable channel space, institutional
networks and public education and government programming.
2. Re-establish the rights of municipalities to provide low cost, accessible
telecommunications services and related infrastructure.
3. Revise or repeal SB05-152 so that municipalities may offer high-speed and
“advanced service” broadband to residents.
4. Permit municipalities to offer high speed internet, Wi-Fi and other enhanced
telecommunication services to residents, schools, academic institutions and
businesses.
5. Allow municipalities to provide telecommunication services within City-owned
facilities and on City property.
6. Enhance exclusive digital communication networks for public safety personnel
use during emergencies.
Community and Neighborhood Livability
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Strategic Outcome
Provide a high quality built environment and support quality, diverse neighborhoods
Strategic Objectives
Improve access to a broad range of quality housing that is safe, accessible and
affordable.
Preserve the significant historical character of the community.
Direct and guide growth in the community through appropriate planning,
annexation, land use and development review processes.
Preserve and provide responsible access to nature.
Preserve and enhance the City’s sense of place.
Promote health and wellness within the community.
Leverage and improve collaboration with other service agencies to address the
prevention of homelessness, poverty issues and other high priority human service
needs.
Expand organizational and community knowledge about diversity, and embrace
cultural differences.
Develop clear goals, strategic definition and description of the City’s social
sustainability role within the community.
Address neighborhood parking issues.
Maintain and enhance attractive neighborhoods through City services, innovative
enforcement techniques, and voluntary compliance with City codes and
regulations.
Foster positive and respectful neighbor relationships and open communication, as
well as provide and support conflict resolution.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The City of Fort Collins supports policy and funding mechanisms that help the City
develop and maintain affordable housing for our community.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Maintain or enhance current levels of funding for affordable housing throughout
Colorado.
2. Increase local government’s ability to regulate, manage or generate alternative
sources of funding for affordable housing, including public-private partnerships.
3. Protect the rights of low-income and/or disabled residents in tenant-landlord
disputes, especially as it relates to safety issues.
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4. Retain flexibility for City to adopt and enforce rental terms that allow it to
appropriately maintain and manage City-owned affordable rental properties.
5. Amend construction defect laws to reasonably balance safe and reliable housing
with needed condominium construction.
6. Increase the amount of affordable, sustainable and high-quality housing in
communities.
7. Develop strategies that balance the cost of services provided to the chronically
homeless with the cost of providing permanent supportive housing.
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW AND INSPECTION
Fort Collins City Council adopts a land use code, zoning and new and existing property
inspection protocol. The City supports retention of home-rule control in aligning
development review and inspections with local priorities. In recent sessions, state
legislators have introduced measures aimed at having local inspectors provide inspection
for building types outside existing responsibilities without additional resources provided
to conduct this work.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Financially compensate jurisdictions or agencies for additional work of
inspectors through fees or other means.
2. Give local governments choices in accepting additional inspection work.
3. Allow local governments to determine the time needed to conduct
development review and inspection timelines.
PLANNING AND LAND USE
Effective local land use planning and land development regulation contributes to the
quality of life enjoyed primarily by Fort Collins residents, yet shared regionally within
Larimer County. State legislation can influence local governments’ ability to develop
and implement land use plans for their communities.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Require regional cooperation in land use and transportation planning, and foster
sustainable development, without unduly constraining the City’s home rule
powers.
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2. Prohibit the annexation of land that is located within the boundaries of a Growth
Management Area that was legally established by an intergovernmental
agreement between a municipality and a county by any municipality not a party to
the agreement.
3. Limit the definition of a compensable taking and/or the definition of vested
property rights beyond the provisions of existing law.
4. Retain local government authority to impose development impact fees.
5. Increase cities’ ability to regulate industrial land uses like oil and gas exploration
and extraction.
6. Foster equitable public housing policies that balance protection of tenants and
landlords.
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
Fort Collins has implemented a triple-bottom line-oriented Sustainability Service Area in
an effort to ensure community resources are allocated by considering equally human,
environmental and economic benefits. Social Sustainability is the practice of ensuring
healthy social systems so that people in our community can thrive. We do this through
programs, policies, and partnerships that provide equity and opportunities for all.
Therefore the City supports the following policy statements:
Maintain or increase the funds available through the state and federal government
for community-focused non-profits to provide human services and housing
support.
Adequately fund K-12 and public post-secondary institutions to ensure
opportunity for youth.
Provide funding for before and after school programs and school out days aimed
at at-risk populations and low- to moderate-income households.
Enhance neighbor relations by improving the resources available to community
mediation and restorative justice programs.
Provide communities with resources to address chronic homelessness.
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Provide reasonable accommodation and expand access for special populations,
including individuals with disabilities, seniors, at-risk youth, people with mental
health needs, and households needing affordable childcare.
URBAN AGRICULTURE
In 2011, City Plan, our community's comprehensive plan, was updated and contained
four goals related to local food production. Staff has worked to align our policies and
regulations with the goals outlined in our comprehensive plan. We have updated the Land
Use Code to permit urban agriculture in all zone districts, allow farmers markets in more
zone districts, allow a greater number and types of animals to be raised, and exempted
hoop houses from the building permit process in order to facilitate year-round production.
The City has also been an active participant in the Northern Colorado Food Cluster which
convenes stakeholders to advance local food initiatives. Locally grown food is a critical
step towards a more sustainable community.
Therefore the City supports the following policy statements:
Provide options for urban farmers to have longer-term access to the land required
for food production.
Provide all citizens access to healthy foods.
Address supply chain needs to support urban farmers.
Diversify the production, consumption and distribution of local food products.
Adopt food production practices that support innovative and efficient irrigation
practices.
Safe Community
Strategic Outcome
Provide a safe place to live, work, learn and play
Strategic Objectives
1. Provide facilities and training capabilities to support a high caliber police force.
2. Optimize the use of technology to drive efficiency, productivity and customer
service.
3. Align staffing levels to deliver services that meet community expectations and
needs, and increase public safety operational efficiency.
4. Protect life and property with natural, aesthetically pleasing flood mitigation
facilities through building codes and development regulations.
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5. Develop and implement emergency preparation, response and recovery plans
across the organization in collaboration with other community efforts.
6. Improve safety for all modes of travel including vehicular, pedestrian and
bicycles.
7. Use data to focus police efforts on reducing crime and disorder within the
community.
8. Improve community involvement, education and regional partnerships to make
our community safer and stronger.
9. Partner with Poudre Fire Authority to provide fire and emergency services.
10. Provide a high-quality, sustainable water supply that meets or exceeds all public
health standards and supports a healthy and safe community.
FIRE PROTECTION
The Fort Collins City Council recognizes the critical importance of maintaining a safe
environment and protecting the lives and property of the citizens of Fort Collins.
Therefore the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Institute a sState fire code, the code of choice being the 2012 International
Building and Fire Code, and allow municipalities to adopt their own amendments.
2. Reject limits to local enforcement of the International Fire Code as adopted with
local amendments, or imposing inspection requirements or preventing collection
of permit or inspection fees as required by the local jurisdiction.
3. Enhance life safety and property protection through installation of fire protection
systems in structures when appropriate.
4. Strengthen the City’s ability to prohibit the use and sale of fireworks and allow
counties and fire districts to prohibit and otherwise control fireworks.
5. Promote fire safety, education and prevention with the goal of reducing injury,
loss of life and property damage.
6. Allow local jurisdictions to implement open burning restrictions.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
It is an important concern of the City to safeguard Fort Collins’ health and environmental
safety by reducing risks from the unauthorized release of hazardous materials or
hazardous waste.
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Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Allow the City to continue controlling risks from hazardous materials use, storage
and transportation through the International Building and Fire Code and related
local amendments.
2. Allow Fort Collins to adopt local regulations for hazardous materials, including
review and approval of the location of facilities that use or store hazardous
materials or hazardous waste.
3. Strengthen the enforcement of hazardous materials regulations.
4. Strengthen the diversion of hazardous waste from landfills.
5. Establish greater flexibility and more options for local government in the
management of publicly-owned areas thought to have asbestos asbestos-
containing soils while maintaining responsible site management practices.
6. Prevent and penalize improper storage and disposal of hazardous or exploration
and production (E&P) wastes from oil and gas operations within municipal
boundaries.
7. Preserve community safety by ensuring emergency responders have all available
information needed to effectively address disasters and maintain public well-
being.
8. Ensure hazardous materials are not stored or used within the 100-year floodplain.
MARIJUANA
In 2012, Colorado voters approved Amendment 64, which legalizes the possession of
adult-use or recreational marijuana in the state. During the same election Fort Collins
residents voted to approve the use of medical marijuana within the Citycity. Federal law
maintains that marijuana is a schedule 1 drug and, as such, can neither be possessed and
used, nor researched.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Regulate medical and retail marijuana manufacturemanufacturing, distribution
and dispensaries.
2. Clarify the implementation and local rights and responsibilities related to
Amendment 64.
3. Clarify and align federal marijuana law with the Colorado Constitution.
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4. Protect communities’ ability to raise necessary funds to maintain public safety
and enforce marijuana possession laws.
5. Prevent under-21 access to marijuana.
6. Clarify the rights of individuals, landlords and homeowner associations in
limiting or preventing growing or consuming marijuana in multi-family
dwellings.
7. Provide additional state marijuana enforcement resources, especially for field
enforcement.
8. Limit THC content per serving size and restrict packaging to a single serving.
PUBLIC SAFETY
The Fort Collins City Council recognizes the critical importance of maintaining public order,
providing a safe environment, and protecting the lives and property of the citizens of Fort
Collins.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Develop treatment and intervention programs, especially for youth, which have
the potential to reduce incidents of violence in the community.
2. Provide greater protection to victims of crime.
3. Maintain or enhance the City’s right to use camera enforcement of traffic laws,
reduces operational restrictions on the use of camera enforcement, and increases
the fines associated with violations.
4. Establish protocols and funding for shared, statewide emergency response
communications.
5. Reject initiatives that have the potential to compromise officer safety.
6. Establish minimum training criteria and professional mediator certification that
formally legitimizes the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
7. Regulate the use of cell phones by a motorists while operating a vehicle.
8. Preserve or increase funding for treatment of mental illness and substance abuse
disorders.
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9. Maintain or enhance a statewide database of concealed weapons permits.
10. Seek to reduce community flood risks.
11. Reduce cities’ liability for prisoners’ self-inflicted wounds while in police custody
or detention facilityies.
12. Restrict access to illegal substances.
13. Require greater producer responsibility, such as “take back” for prescription drugs
to avoid these substances being abused or being disposed of into the water supply.
14. Clarify the qualifications for what types and purposes a business may obtain and
use a state liquor license.
15. Define what qualifies as a “meal” when calculating the percentage of meals
served for a liquor license.
16. Increasing state, regional and local disaster resilience.
17. Promote efforts to reduce conflict between community members and law
enforcement.
18. Encourage the voluntary use of body-worn camera technology on officers and
development of community-specific standards for the use of cameras and their
data.
19. Develop grant programs for police department use to fund the purchase, training
and deployment of body-worn cameras and the retention of footage.
Transportation
Strategic Outcome
Provide for safe & and reliable multi-modal travel to, from, and throughout the city
Strategic Objectives
1. Improve safety of all modes of travel.
2. Improve transit availability and grow ridership through extended hours, improved
headways, and Sunday service in appropriate activity centers.
3. Fill the gaps for all modes of travel and improve the current transportation
infrastructure while enhancing the aesthetic environment.
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4. Improve traffic flow for all modes of transporting people, goods and information
to benefit both individuals and the business community.
5. Create and implement long-term transportation planning and help local and
regional transportation networks operate at a high level of efficiency, including
the airport.
6. Support efforts to achieve climate action goals by reducing mobile emissions and
supporting multiple modes of transportation.
7. Create and implement planning, engineering and financial strategies to address
adequate infrastructure within the northeast area of Fort Collins.
TRANSPORTATION
The City actively promotes the safety and ease of traveling to, from and throughout the
community using a variety of modes of transportation. Additionally, the City’s policy is
to encourage the use of alternative transportation whenever appropriate.
Therefore, the City supports the following policies:
1. Facilitate cooperative programs among government agencies in order to help the
City meet its basic transportation needs, including transit, street, highway, road and
bridge construction and maintenance, and safe corridors for bicyclists and,
pedestrians and those using mobility aid devices.
2. Reject reductions to the present allocation formula of 60% percent state, 22%
percent counties, and 18% percent municipalities for Highway User Tax Fund
(HUTF) or any appropriations from the State state using the same formula.
3. Explore and analyze alternative funding methods to meet transportation
infrastructure needs.
4. Fund analysis and implementation of inter- and intra-regional transit linkages,
including future commuter rail connectivity.
5. Facilitate regional planning for various modes of transportation with the goal of
providing practical solutions to reduce reliance on single single-occupant vehicles.
6. Encourage flexibility in federal funding and regulations in order to better meet the
needs of small to medium medium-size communities.
7. Encourage or incent locatingon of affordable housing near transit for greatest
accessibility.
8. Preserve the guaranteed levels of federal funding for transportation and allocation
of all federal motor fuel taxes and other federal transportation trust funds for their
intended transportation purposes.
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9. Broaden the definition of the gasoline tax to a “fuel tax” that encompasses other
fuel options as they become more prevalent.
10. Increase local governments’ ability to prevent railroad trains from blocking street
and highway grade crossings for unreasonable time periods.
11. Foster dialogue between railroad operators and communities aimed at solutions to
rail proximity issues.
11.12. Facilitate the implementation of railroad quiet zones in municipalities and
reduce train horn decibel and duration requirements in existing federal rule.
12.13. Reject divesting key highway roads in urban areas from the State state and
make them the sole responsibility of local jurisdictions.
13.14. Maintain safe operation of railroads through timely track inspections, joint
training and communication between railroad and emergency personnel, and the use
of safe equipment.
15. Develop financing programs for Interstate 25 improvements.
16. Explore solutions to improve bicycle safety and fund implementation projects in
communities.
17. Clarify federal and state regulations in order to preserve local governments’ ability
to utilize unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for service-related purposes.
18. Ensure local government has access to test the use of UAVs in service delivery.
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CITY OF FORT COLLINS LEGISLATIVE CONTACTS
Legislative Review Committee
Name District/Title Email Phone
Councilmember Gino Campana District 3 gcampana@fcgov.com (970) 460-6329
Councilmember Ross Cunniff District 5 rcunniff@fcgov.com (970) 420-7398
Councilmember Ray Martinez District 2 raymartinez@fcgov.com (970) 690 3686
Wendy Williams Assistant City Manager wwilliams@fcgov.com (970) 416-2899
Carrie Daggett City Attorney cdaggett@fcgov.com (970) 416-2463
Dan Weinheimer Legislative Policy
Manager
dweinheimer@fcgov.com (970) 416-2253
Legislative Staff Liaison Members
Topic Area Name Title Email Phone
Affordable Housing
and Social
Sustainability
Beth Sowder Social Sustainability
Director
bsowder@fcgov.com (970) 221-6752
Air Quality Lindsay Ex Environmental Program
Manager
lex@fcgov.com (970) 224-6143
Cable Television
Franchise
Carson Hamlin Cable Television
Manager
chamlin@fcgov.com (970) 221-6510
Climate and
Environmental
Protection
Lucinda Smith Environmental Services
Director
lsmith@fcgov.com (970) 224-6085
Elections, Liquor
Licensing, Medical
Marijuana Licensing
Wanda
Winkelmann
City Clerk wwinkelmann@fcgov.com (970) 416-2995
Cultural Services,
Parks and Recreation
Mike Calhoon Director of Parks mcalhoon@fcgov.com (970) 416-2079
Energy Lisa Rosintoski Utility Customer
Connections Manager
lrosintoski@fcgov.com (970) 416-2432
Finance Michael
Beckstead
Chief Financial Officer mbeckstead@fcgov.com (970) 221-6795
Economic Health Josh Birks Economic Health
Director
jbirks@fcgov.com (970) 221-6324
Fire Protection and
Hazardous Materials
Management
Bob Poncelow Division Chief, Poudre
Fire Authority
bponcelow@poudre-
fire.org
(970) 416-2871
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Poudre River Issues
Neighborhood and
Building Services
Mike Gebo Chief Building Official mgebo@fcgov.com (970) 416-2618
Planning and Land
Use
Tom Leeson Community
Development and
Neighborhood Services
Director
tleeson@fcgov.com (970) 221-6287
Public Safety Jerry Schiager Assistant Chief jschiager@fcgov.com (970) 416-2587
Recycling and Solid
Waste
Susie Gordon Senior Environmental
Planner
sgordon@fcgov.com (970) 221-6265
Risk Management Lance Murray Risk Manager lmurray@fcgov.com (970) 221-6807
Stormwater Jon Haukaas Water Engineering Field
Operations Manager
jhaukaas@fcgov.com (970) 221-6671
Transportation Mark Jackson Planning, Development
and Transportation
Deputy Director
mjackson@fcgov.com (970) 416-2029
Utilities Customer
Service
Lisa Rosintoski Utility Customer
Connections Manager
lrosintoski@fcgov.com (970) 416-2432
Water Supply and
Quality
Carol Webb Water Resource and
Treatment Operations
Manager
cwebb@fcgov.com (970) 221-6231
RESOLUTION 2015-114
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
ADOPTING THE CITY’S 2016 LEGISLATIVE POLICY AGENDA
WHEREAS, state and federal legislation may impact the citizens of Fort Collins,
affecting their quality of life; and
WHEREAS, such state and federal legislation may also influence the operations of
municipal governments, including the City; and
WHEREAS, the City has an interest in providing input on proposed legislation; and
WHEREAS, Councilmembers and staff are asked to state the City’s policy position on
legislation; and
WHEREAS, in addition on occasion the City has an interest in providing input on
proposed county, state and federal regulations; and
WHEREAS, establishing the City’s policy position assists the members of the Legislative
Review Committee in their review of, and response to, these matters, and assists City staff in
communicating and advocating the City’s policy position on the same.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED 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 the policy statements contained in the attached 2016 Legislative
Policy Agenda accurately reflect the City’s policies on these issues.
Section 3. That the City Council hereby adopts the 2016 Legislative Policy Agenda
attached hereto as Exhibit “A” and incorporated herein by this reference.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Fort Collins this
15th day of December, A.D. 2015.
_________________________________
Mayor
ATTEST:
_____________________________
City Clerk
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY AGENDA
2016
Adopted
December 15, 2015
EXHIBIT A
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TOPIC PAGE
INTRODUCTION 4
FORT COLLINS LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE 5
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW PROCESS 5
2016 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES 6
LEGISLATIVE POLICY STATEMENTS 12
COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD LIVABILITY
AFFORDABLE HOUSING 12
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW AND INSPECTION 13
PLANNING AND LAND USE 13
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY 14
URBAN AGRICULTURE 15
CULTURE AND RECREATION
CULTURAL SERVICES 16
PARKS AND RECREATION 16
ECONOMIC HEALTH
FINANCE 17
INVESTMENTS 18
PRIVATIZATION 18
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 18
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
AIR QUALITY 20
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 21
NATURAL AREAS AND OPEN LANDS 21
OIL AND GAS 22
RECYCLING AND SOLID WASTE 22
UTILITY SERVICES 23
ENERGY 24
WATER SUPPLY AND QUALITY 24
HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
HOME RULE 26
HUMAN RESOURCES 26
RISK MANAGEMENT 27
SOVEREIGN AND GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY 27
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS 28
SAFETY
FIRE PROTECTION 29
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT 30
MARIJUANA 30
PUBLIC SAFETY 31
TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION 33
CITY LEGISLATIVE STAFF 35
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INTRODUCTION
Fort Collins is a community of 158,300 residents located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains
along Colorado’s Front Range. Incorporated in 1873, the City has grown to become the
commercial, educational and cultural hub of Northern Colorado. The City adopted a home rule
charter in 1954 and operates under a Council-Manager form of government.
The City is a data-driven municipal organization that strives to fulfill its mission, “Exceptional
service for an exceptional community”, through a vision of providing world-class municipal
services through operational excellence and a culture of innovation. City leaders seek innovative
solutions to issues facing the community and are often willing to leverage emerging
technologies.
The 2016 City of Fort Collins Legislative Policy Agenda identifies a broad range of important
issues. The Fort Collins City Council annually adopts a broad set of policy statements meant to
convey positions on issues that affect the quality of life and the governance of our community.
Our policy agenda is structured to address areas of local concern and to also reflect the strategic
planning that guides City of Fort Collins organizational resource allocation and decision making.
The City’s Legislative Priorities are issues Fort Collins is focused on in the 2016 Colorado
General Assembly and United States Congress. These priority topics, similar to the City’s overall
policies, are reviewed and updated annually. Revisions to the policy agenda and priorities are
adopted in November ahead of the Colorado General Assembly session.
Partnership and interagency collaboration are important methods for achieving optimal
legislative outcomes. On many federal and state issues, Fort Collins shares the concerns of others
within the community, within the region and other communities statewide. In these cases, Fort
Collins will seek opportunities to leverage additional resources and participate in regional
dialogue to achieve shared outcomes.
The City identified seven outcome areas to ensure appropriate and effective resource allocation
supporting the community’s priorities. Fort Collins’ outcome areas include Culture and
Recreation; Economic Health; Environmental Health; High Performing Government;
Neighborhood Livability; Safe Community; and Transportation. The Policy Agenda identifies
specific City Council-adopted goals associated with the policy statements. This alignment is
important for City staff to ensure that advocacy supports specific desired outcomes.
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CITY OF FORT COLLINS
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE
The Legislative Review Committee (LRC) is a representative group of Council members that
reviews and reacts to proposed legislation on behalf of City Council and the City. In taking a
position on particular bills, the LRC interprets and applies the various policies that are included
in the Legislative Policy Agenda.
Council Members presently serving on the Legislative Review Committee are:
Councilmember Gino Campana, Chair
Councilmember Ross Cunniff
Councilmember Ray Martinez
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW PROCESS
Bills introduced in the Colorado General Assembly, United States Congress and federal, state or
county regulations or rulemakings are reviewed by the Legislative Policy Manager. Bills,
regulation and rules addressing a stated legislative priority, or adopted policy position, may be
brought to the LRC for discussion of an official City position. Once a position is adopted on a
bill, the Legislative Policy Manager conveys that information to the appropriate state or federal
representative and advocates for the City’s adopted position.
Staff liaisons support the LRC by contributing expertise in various areas of municipal service.
The input offered by staff experts is invaluable in analyzing impacts of legislative, regulatory
and rulemaking proposals to Fort Collins operations and the community. Fort Collins also works
with community partners to support local projects and staff collaborates with representatives of
other municipalities on mutually-held priorities. Fort Collins actively seeks innovative
partnerships to leverage positive outcomes for residents.
The City works closely with the Colorado Municipal League (CML) and the National League of
Cities (NLC) on many legislative items facing cities. Fort Collins also works with Colorado
Association of Municipal Utilities (CAMU) which represents 29 municipal utilities throughout
the state on utility issues. In addition, Fort Collins actively participates in the Colorado Water
Congress State Affairs Committee to address water-related issues.
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LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
Objective: Cooperate with stakeholders on refinement of Urban Renewal Authority
laws
Issue: An Urban Renewal Authority (URA) is a tool in place to identify and revitalize
areas of the city deemed blighted and provide a funding mechanism to encourage redevelopment.
The main funding tool for URA is Tax Increment Financing (TIF) generated through property
taxes. In its best intention, urban renewal restores economic vitality and improves the safety of a
designated area. Redeveloping urban areas is much harder and more expensive than new
development in “greenfield sites”, thus the use of urban renewal and tax increment financing
responds to larger, more costly infrastructure needs. The state of Colorado has empowered local
authorities to use Urban Renewal Authorities to encourage revitalization and the elimination of
blight in these areas.
Fort Collins attempts to use URA and TIF judiciously but also recognizes the concerns raised by
counties, special districts and school districts about the use of TIF. URA is an important and
useful tool for Fort Collins in addressing community blight and encouraging redevelopment
rather than sprawl. The City has engaged regional partners in an attempt to develop an equitable
formula and process for utilizing URA in Larimer County. Fort Collins has sought to identify a
mechanism to balance Larimer County costs for providing service in URA areas and to shared
constituents.
2015 URA reform law (HB15-1348) institutes several changes that the City will be
implementing in its URA practices. Key changes to URA law add additional members from
county, special districts and school district to a URA Board and a negotiated use of tax increment
funds before the City could utilize them. Fort Collins is already working on adopting HB 1348
changes.
The City would like to see clarifications made to HB 1348 as language included in the new law
does not conform to URA statute and it is unclear how this new law impacts projects already
under development.
Objective: Support local control of oil and gas operations
Issue: Fort Collins, like many other Colorado communities, has taken steps to address
oil and gas extraction. Those efforts have been limited by the Colorado Oil and Gas
Conservation Commission (COGCC) rules. Fort Collins supports studying and better
understanding the health and community impacts of oil and gas extraction.
Fort Collins seeks the following:
Increased local flexibility to regulate oil and gas activity within its incorporated borders
Limiting the proximity of large-scale oil and gas sites to the City limits in order to
minimize community impacts
Mitigation measures that balance developing oil and gas resources with community
environmental and human health
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Additional information about the chemicals being injected into the ground, especially
during hydraulic fracturing
Greater knowledge and control of air emissions from extraction processes and production
equipment
Enhanced right for communities to regulate oil and gas as an industrial practice and
therefore apply local zoning practices to operators
Better balance between surface land ownership and mineral right ownership
Fort Collins intends to use existing programs like the Local Government Designee (LGD) to
their fullest potential but will also seek legislative remedies to areas of greatest concern. Fort
Collins will also work with other interested communities to address oil and gas operation
concerns. The City will monitor and engage as appropriate in rulemaking hearings of the
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
Objective: Advocate solutions to nuisance and safety issues related to railroad proximity
Issue: Communities throughout the United States are wrestling with issues related to
railroad proximity. These include extended blockages of community intersections, the transport
of hazardous materials, rail car safety, train horn noise, transparency related to rail cargo and
train switching. These issues affect quality of life for residents and business owners and can
result in catastrophic disasters in cases of derailment.
Fort Collins has two active railroad corridors and three rail companies servicing the community
and is working regionally, through the Colorado Municipal League (CML) and National League
of Cities (NLC), to raise the profile of rail proximity issues. In addressing rail safety and rail
proximity issues, the City has active relationships with Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF),
Great Western Railway (GWR) and Union Pacific (UP) railroad companies and has cultivated a
relationship with the federal regulatory body – the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).
In order to clean our air, reduce auto congestion and improve quality of life, several federal
agencies including the EPA, HUD and the Federal Transit Administration are encouraging
Transit Oriented Development. The idea behind Transit Oriented Development is to bring
residents closer to mass transit lines so that they can use mass transportation, and so that
downtown revitalization can occur. The Mason Corridor Bus Rapid Transit, which began
operation in 2014, is one example. At the same time, the FRA train horn rule in effect is
discouraging the development community and residents from locating around transit. Reform is
needed.
Trains have regained preference for transporting goods and materials. The increased use of rail
has added pressure to the system and identified several safety concerns – track maintenance,
tanker car safety, and notification of hazardous materials to public safety leaders. Fort Collins
will work to the following goals at a state and national level:
Engagement with railroad companies
Development of a “proximity issues” dialogue between railroad and local governments
on a broad suite of topics
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Notification about hazardous material shipments passing through communities
Ensuring track maintenance and train car safety
Collaboration with railroads to train local emergency personnel
Solution-oriented use of technology and innovation to improve conflict areas
Promote improve existing federal and state regulations to identify reasonable safety
protections
Objective: Support marijuana law clarifications and alignment with Colorado
Constitution
Issue: The passage and implementation of Amendment 64 legalized adult use marijuana
in Colorado. The Fort Collins City Council approved limited adult use marijuana businesses and
sales in addition to existing medical marijuana businesses.
Fort Collins seeks clarification on the following items:
Conflicts that exist between state and federal laws regarding marijuana possession
Enforcement of the new law and its impacts on local staff and public safety resources
Rules pertaining to packaging and labeling marijuana and products containing marijuana
Effectively funding prevention of under-21 possession and use
Community public safety
Limiting THC content per serving size and restricting packaging to a single serving
In addition to adult use marijuana, communities across the United States that have authorized
medical marijuana are struggling with implementation and the need for a single, viable
distribution system. At the core of the issues with both medical and adult use marijuana is the
classification of the drug. Marijuana is currently classified as a Schedule 1 drug. This
designation means it cannot be prescribed by a doctor or handled through the same distribution
channels as other prescribed drugs. As a result, different states have adopted different
approaches in conflict with federal laws. In Colorado, medical marijuana may be recommended
by a doctor but not prescribed. Work is needed at the federal level to clarify this issue. The
federal classification should be re-evaluated to consider allowing more medical research. If it is
determined that marijuana fits one of the other classifications and does have medical benefits, it
could be included in the existing drug delivery system.
Objective: Participate in federal, state and regional efforts to foster resilient
communities and achieve Climate Action Plan goals
Issue: Making communities more resilient to disaster and the effects of a changing
climate has become more important to Colorado communities over the last several years as
natural disasters have caused significant human and property loss. Resilience has become a term
used to describe hardening vulnerable community infrastructure and preparing for predictable
hazards in order to soften the blow on citizens and infrastructure.
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Making Fort Collins and Northern Colorado more resilient involves providing decision-makers
hazard mitigation analysis and scientific data, then using that information to invest in
complementary systems. Northern Colorado’s experience is that resilience must be a regional
effort that pays off through coordinated advanced planning and investment.
Resiliency efforts are important because they impact a broad set of critical services including:
Land use
Utility operations
Transportation infrastructure
Sustainability services
Health
Safety
Emergency Response
Disaster recovery
Fort Collins has adopted aggressive climate action and greenhouse gas reduction goals. The City
supports policies and legislation helping communities to achieve specific greenhouse gas
reductions, gather scientific data supporting climate actions and to invest in needed infrastructure
to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
City staff are working to develop actions to implement in order to achieve the Climate Action
Plan goals. These goals may be assisted and promoted through legislative and regulatory actions.
Success in achieving the City’s climate action goals may be enhanced through partnership with
communities that have adopted similarly aggressive climate action and adaptation goals. Action
in the transportation and energy sectors will be important drivers for reducing greenhouse gas
emissions and achieving both climate and resilience goals.
The Fort Collins community is just one member of a regional “waste shed” in Northern
Colorado. The City acknowledges this interdependence, and the role that state legislation can,
and should, play in applying broad measures such as setting a state waste diversion goal and
helping to support related strategies, which could also serve to reduce carbon emissions and
create opportunities for waste-to-energy applications when ultra-low pollution conversion
technology is used.
Objective: Support transportation infrastructure connectivity with an emphasis on
funding an integrated, multi-modal system
Issue: Funding for vital transportation infrastructure will continue to be a high priority
for the City of Fort Collins. Transportation infrastructure is a critical element to supporting
community and regional economic health, safety and quality of life.
The City supports a long-term reauthorization of the nation’s surface transportation law with a
focus on transit, livable community planning, comprehensive regional investments, revitalization
of existing infrastructure, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and approaches that decrease
petroleum consumption and reduce carbon pollution.
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We strongly support preservation of federal levels of funding and allocation of all federal motor
fuel taxes and other federal transportation trust funds for their intended purposes. In addition, we
urge development of a new, more stable, long range transportation funding mechanism that
doesn’t rely upon fuel tax revenues. Fuel tax is no longer a sustainable method of funding the
nation’s transportation infrastructure needs.
Fort Collins seeks a solution to secure critical funding of the nation’s highway and bridge
projects. Allowing the Highway Trust Fund to become insolvent would be devastating to the
City’s transportation infrastructure and have impacts throughout the Northern Colorado
economy.
A key transportation funding priority for Fort Collins is Interstate 25 (I-25) in Northern
Colorado. The highway has become a pinch point in the regional transportation inventory that
limits access to and from Fort Collins for residents, visitors, and the delivery of goods and
services. Immediate funding to widen north I-25 is needed to sustain the region’s economic
growth. The City is an active part of the I-25 Coalition whose primary goal is to accelerate
construction of a third lane in each direction of I-25 as identified in the I-25 North Project (from
State Highway 6 to State Highway 14).
Actions that may expedite the improvement and expansion of northern sections of I-25 include:
A Transportation Revenue Anticipation Notes (TRANS) bond II ballot initiative (TRANS
bonds were previously used to help fund the $1.67 billion T-REX I-25 improvements in
the south Denver Metro area)
State of Colorado General Fund dollars going to transportation (maintenance & capital
construction)
Modification to SB 228 for maintenance as long as it’s tied to TRANS bond (SB 228
provides a mechanism for the State to transfer funds from the General Fund to CDOT for
strategic transportation capital infrastructure projects)
Extending SB 228 for 10 years beyond projected five-year transfer required in law
Tax credit legislation for specific highway projects
Objective: Support comprehensive water resource management
Issue: Water resources from the Mountain West to California are stressed by many
factors – environmental, population growth and aging infrastructure. Local water resource
planning efforts ensure adequate supply to residents through managing the City’s water rights
portfolio, encouraging increased efficiency and expanding storage. Fort Collins will support
efforts to address water needs, preserve its water rights portfolio, and to encourage conservation
of water resources. The conservation of water resources extends to support for Cache la Poudre
River restoration projects.
Fort Collins will participate in implementation of the Colorado Water Plan and the federal
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rulemakings affecting water storage, use, quality and
conservation.
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Objective: Support a comprehensive approach to reduce the impacts of poverty,
housing affordability and homelessness
Issue: Poverty and homelessness are persistent issues in Fort Collins and across
Colorado. Fort Collins is committed to making homelessness rare, short-lived and non-recurring.
The City is interested in developing local solutions to these persistent problems through
collaboration and innovation. The City plays both a convening and leadership role among the
many community service providers – seeking to foster sustainable solutions to complex social
issues through a combination of City involvement and leadership.
Fort Collins supports solutions to address poverty within the community such as:
Fully resource a state affordable housing fund
Implement funding for the Earned Income Tax Credit
Develop or expand programs that ensure a smooth transition from foster care to
independence
Increase funding for mental health care/programs
Increase development of condominiums by addressing construction defect law reform
Adopt standardized state-level tools to respond to homelessness
Pilot innovative programs to address housing and homelessness
Objective: Support the innovation economy
Issue: Innovation is a key attribute of the City organization and is also important to the
community. Fort Collins has numerous drivers of innovation, intellectual property and
inventions with an educated resident base, Colorado State University, federal research labs, and a
long list of innovative companies. As a result, Fort Collins has a culture and support system that
nurtures an innovation economy with the City often serving as a living laboratory for ideas and
new technologies.
The City will maintain and enhance its innovation economy through:
Supporting efforts to simplify the commercialization of intellectual property
Efforts to increase the available capital to support innovation and new business formation
Efforts that support the spin-off and development of intellectual property from research
institutes, private business, and higher education
Efforts to encourage the retention of new and innovative businesses in the community
Supporting business incubation, primarily through the commercialization of intellectual
property, with strong partnerships
Application of innovative technologies and approaches to improve City programs and
services
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY STATEMENTS
Community and Neighborhood Livability
Strategic Outcome
Provide a high quality built environment and support quality, diverse neighborhoods
Strategic Objectives
1. Improve access to a broad range of quality housing that is safe, accessible and affordable.
2. Preserve the significant historical character of the community.
3. Direct and guide growth in the community through appropriate planning, annexation,
land use and development review processes.
4. Preserve and provide responsible access to nature.
5. Preserve and enhance the City’s sense of place.
6. Promote health and wellness within the community.
7. Leverage and improve collaboration with other service agencies to address the prevention
of homelessness, poverty issues and other high priority human service needs.
8. Expand organizational and community knowledge about diversity, and embrace cultural
differences.
9. Develop clear goals, strategic definition and description of the City’s social sustainability
role within the community.
10. Address neighborhood parking issues.
11. Maintain and enhance attractive neighborhoods through City services, innovative
enforcement techniques, and voluntary compliance with City codes and regulations.
12. Foster positive and respectful neighbor relationships and open communication, as well as
provide and support conflict resolution.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The City of Fort Collins supports policy and funding mechanisms that help the City develop and
maintain affordable housing for our community.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Maintain or enhance current levels of funding for affordable housing throughout
Colorado.
2. Increase local government’s ability to regulate, manage or generate alternative sources of
funding for affordable housing, including public-private partnerships.
3. Protect the rights of low-income and/or disabled residents in tenant-landlord disputes,
especially as it relates to safety issues.
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4. Retain flexibility for City to adopt and enforce rental terms that allow it to appropriately
maintain and manage City-owned affordable rental properties.
5. Amend construction defect laws to reasonably balance safe and reliable housing with
needed condominium construction.
6. Increase the amount of affordable, accessible, sustainable and high-quality housing in
communities.
7. Develop strategies that balance the cost of services provided to the chronically homeless
with the cost of providing permanent supportive housing.
8. Create a standardized statewide approach to addressing homelessness.
9. Invest in innovative approaches to address the causes of homelessness.
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW AND INSPECTION
Fort Collins City Council adopts a land use code, zoning and new and existing property
inspection protocol. The City supports retention of home-rule control in aligning development
review and inspections with local priorities. In recent sessions, state legislators have introduced
measures aimed at having local inspectors provide inspection for building types outside existing
responsibilities without additional resources provided to conduct this work.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Financially compensate a jurisdiction or agency for additional work of inspectors
through fees or other means.
2. Give local governments choices in accepting additional inspection work.
3. Allow local governments to determine the time needed to conduct development
review and inspection timelines.
PLANNING AND LAND USE
Effective local land use planning and land development regulation contributes to the quality of
life enjoyed primarily by Fort Collins residents, yet shared regionally within Larimer County.
State legislation can influence local governments’ ability to develop and implement land use
plans for their communities.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
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1. Require regional cooperation in land use and transportation planning, and foster
sustainable development, without unduly constraining the City’s home rule powers.
2. Prohibit the annexation of land that is located within the boundaries of a Growth
Management Area that was legally established by an intergovernmental agreement
between a municipality and a county by any municipality not a party to the agreement.
3. Limit the definition of a compensable taking and/or the definition of vested property
rights beyond the provisions of existing law.
4. Retain local government authority to impose development impact fees.
5. Increase cities’ ability to regulate industrial land uses like oil and gas exploration and
extraction.
6. Foster equitable public housing policies that balance protection of tenants and landlords.
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
Fort Collins has implemented a triple-bottom line-oriented Sustainability Service Area in an
effort to ensure community resources are allocated by considering equally human, environmental
and economic benefits. Social Sustainability is the practice of ensuring healthy social systems so
that people in our community can thrive. We do this through programs, policies, and partnerships
that provide equity and opportunities for all.
Therefore the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Maintain or increase the funds available through the state and federal government for
community-focused non-profits to provide human services and housing support.
2. Adequately fund K-12 and public post-secondary institutions to ensure opportunity for
youth.
3. Provide funding for before and after school programs and school out days aimed at at-risk
population and low- to moderate-income families.
4. Enhance neighbor relations by improving the resources available to community
mediation and restorative justice programs.
5. Provide communities with resources to address chronic homelessness.
6. Provide reasonable accommodation and expand access for special populations, including
individuals with disabilities, seniors, at-risk youth, people with mental health needs, and
households needing affordable childcare.
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URBAN AGRICULTURE
In 2011, City Plan, our community's comprehensive plan, was updated and contained four goals
related to local food production. Staff has worked to align our policies and regulations with the
goals outlined in our comprehensive plan. We have updated the Land Use Code to permit urban
agriculture in all zone districts, allow farmers markets in more zone districts, allow a greater
number and types of animals to be raised, and exempted hoop houses from the building permit
process in order to facilitate year-round production. The City has also been an active participant
in the Northern Colorado Food Cluster which convenes stakeholders to advance local food
initiatives. Locally grown food is a critical step towards a more sustainable community.
Therefore the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Provide options for urban farmers to have longer-term access to the land required for
food production.
2. Provide all citizens access to healthy foods.
3. Address supply chain needs to support urban farmers.
4. Diversify the production, consumption and distribution of local food products.
5. Adopt food production practices that support innovative and efficient irrigation practices.
Culture and Recreation
Strategic Outcome
Fort Collins provides diverse cultural and recreational amenities
Strategic Objectives
1. Improve low and moderate income citizen access to, and participation in, City programs
and facilities
2. Develop effective marketing strategies that drive optimal attendance and revenue
3. Develop effective Operation and Maintenance (O&M) funding alternatives for City
subsidized facilities and programs
4. Maintain and enhance the current culture, recreation and parks systems
5. Plan, design and implement citywide park, recreation and trail improvements
6. Develop a clear strategic definition and description of the City’s role in the culture and
arts while leveraging partnerships with other community organizations
7. Promote a healthy community and responsible access to nature
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CULTURAL SERVICES
The City recognizes that art and culture are vitally important to the quality of life in our
community and is committed to providing the citizens of Fort Collins with excellent cultural
services.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Fund cultural services activities promoting the education, entertainment and enrichment
of the community.
2. Facilitate the creation, performance and presentation of the arts.
3. Protect and preserve our cultural heritage.
4. Expand access and inclusion for all citizens to cultural events.
PARKS AND RECREATION
The City is committed to providing the community with excellent parks and recreation services
and facilities. Our citizens enjoy a better quality of life, improved health, less crime and a
greater sense of community because of our quality parks and recreation programs.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Maintain or enhance funding for parks, trails, forestry, horticulture and recreation
services and facilities.
2. Provide maximum local discretion to use Great Outdoors Colorado and other sources for
funding municipal government projects addressing local needs and priorities.
3. Sustain availability of Great Outdoors Colorado grants to municipalities in equal or
greater funding levels.
4. Enhance the City’s ability to provide quality parks and recreation services and facilities
for its citizens.
5. Enhance the protection of community trees and natural assets against invasive species,
pests and other threats.
6. Expand access and inclusion for all citizens to community recreational opportunities.
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ECONOMIC HEALTH
Strategic Outcome
Promote a healthy, sustainable economy reflecting community values
Strategic Objectives
1. Align economic health goals and strategy across all levels of the organization and refine
and agree upon the economic tools the City uses
2. Improve policies and programs to retain, expand, incubate and attract primary employers
where consistent with City goals
3. Support workforce development and community amenities initiatives that meet the needs
of employers within the City
4. Improve effectiveness through collaboration with economic-health oriented regional
partners
5. Sustain high water quality to support the community and water-dependent businesses
6. Maintain utility systems and services; infrastructure integrity; and stable, competitive
rates
7. Support sustainable infill and redevelopment to meet climate action strategies
8. Preserve the City’s sense of place
9. Provide transparent, predictable and efficient processes for citizens and businesses
interacting with the City
10. Address Downtown parking issues identified in the adopted Parking Plan, including
funding, convenient access, and integrated transit and alternative mode solutions
11. Encourage the development of reliable, ultra-high speed internet services throughout the
community
FINANCE
As a municipality, the City of Fort Collins faces many complex financial issues. Strong fiscal
planning, prudent debt management and preservation of the City’s revenue base are vital in
maintaining and improving the City’s financial health. Considering the known impacts of
legislation on the City’s business community can help foster a stronger tax base and retain a
strong quality of life.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Maintain or expand municipal authority to establish alternative funding mechanisms,
including financing tools such as public improvement fees (PIF) and certificates of
participation (COP).
2. Increase funding for higher education, specifically Colorado State University and Front
Range Community College.
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3. Promote the equitable treatment of sales and use taxes to residents and corporations
residing or doing business in Colorado by limiting exemptions.
4. Recognize the importance of sales and use tax to local, self-collecting municipalities and
equitably distribute sales tax collections on e-commerce transactions.
5. Maintain or increase the City’s revenue base (sales, use and property taxes).
INVESTMENTS
The Fort Collins City Council has adopted investment polices to be used by the City. The
policies are reviewed and updated periodically to ensure the safety and quality of the portfolio to
maintain liquidity and to maximize portfolio earnings.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Protect, without unnecessarily restricting, the investments of government entities.
2. Provide adequate transparency of the City’s investment activity.
3. Provide municipalities freedom to participate in investments that meet their strategic
objectives.
4. Do not restrict cities’ ability to adopt their own investment policies.
PRIVATIZATION
The City of Fort Collins utilizes outside contracts for procurement of many goods and services.
This practice of privatization provides citizens with a balance of quality and cost efficiency.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Enable cities to choose the provision of services through private enterprise in a manner
that fosters cost effective, sustainable, quality services.
2. Maintain local control of the awarding of contracts and the accountability of local
officials for those actions.
3. Reject mandates that increase the complexity and cost of services without improving
those services.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Fort Collins seeks to maintain a healthy and resilient economic base of businesses. The City
works closely with businesses to retain and invest in alignment with the Council’s Action Plan.
A healthy and resilient economy for Fort Collins will include:
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Diverse jobs that enable citizens and businesses to thrive.
Reflects the values of our unique community in a changing world.
An innovative, creative, and entrepreneurial atmosphere.
Strong partnerships and collaboration with the private sector, educational institutions, and
other organizations.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Promote sustainable economic development.
2. Retain local governments’ use of tax increment financing as a tool to support Downtown
Development Authorities and Urban Renewal Authorities, taking into consideration the
land use impacts of such legislation (e.g., sprawl) and the compelling interests and
concerns of other taxing entities.
3. Adopt clarifying language to HB15-1348 to address ambiguity and confusion created by
the drafters. Specifically, address standard use of terms and arbitration process, and
ensure intent that the law does not impact projects already underway.
4. Encourage adopting innovative solutions to governmental and community problems.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Strategic Outcome
Promote, protect and enhance a healthy and sustainable environment
Strategic Objectives
1. Improve and protect wildlife habitat and the ecosystems of the Poudre River and
other urban streams
2. Achieve environmental goals using the Sustainability Assessment framework
3. Implement indoor and outdoor air quality improvement initiatives
4. Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by creating a built environment focused
on green building and mobile emission reductions
5. Demonstrate progress toward achieving net zero energy within the community
and the City organization using a systems approach
6. Engage citizens in a way to educate and change behavior toward more sustainable
living practices
7. Increase the community’s resiliency and preparedness for changes in climate,
weather and resource availability
8. Protect and monitor water quality, and implement appropriate conservation efforts
and long-term water storage capability
9. Meet or exceed all environmental regulations
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10. Conserve and restore biodiversity and habitat
11. Demonstrate progress toward achieving zero waste within the community and the
City organization
AIR QUALITY
The City’s Air Quality Plan establishes a strong overall goal to “continually improve Fort Collins
air quality.”
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Adopt programs and policies that improve public health and air quality.
2. Ensure air quality standards are protective of public health and welfare.
3. Enhance local government authority to improve air quality beyond minimum State or
Federal requirements.
4. Promote strategies to improve regional air quality, recognizing that air pollution does not
follow jurisdictional boundaries.
5. Assure that Federal, State and County agencies have adequate authority and resources
(funding and personnel) to enforce air quality regulations.
6. Promote voluntary actions to reduce air pollution.
7. Reduce vehicle emissions by:
Using the price mechanisms of the free market to shift citizen and business travel
behavior toward actions that reduce vehicle emissions and vehicle miles of travel,
including removing hidden cost subsidies to motor vehicle users
Employing economic incentives, disincentives and other market approaches that
support clean air
Encouraging behavior changes, such as reducing vehicle idling
Implementing state motor vehicle emissions testing programs consistent with City air
quality goals
8. Provide authority for local governments to implement vehicle emissions reductions
programs.
9. Strengthen tailpipe emissions and fuel economy standards for all vehicles including
reducing the impact of “rolling coal” and nitrous oxide emissions.
10. Promote advanced low emission vehicle technology.
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11. Encourage or promote lower carbon alternative fuels.
12. Reduce or eliminate residential wood smoke emissions in order to achieve compliance
with air quality standards.
13. Reduce fossil fuel consumption in the transportation and building sector.
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
The City of Fort Collins encourages local, state and national efforts to protect and enhance our
environment. Additionally, the City has a policy goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20
percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and 100 percent
below 2005 levels by 2050. The goals call for Fort Collins to be carbon neutral by 2050.
Therefore the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Enhance Fort Collins’ resilience to impacts of climate change.
2. Establish greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets.
3. Establish market-based mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
4. Develop strategies to prevent pollution.
5. Maintain and protect the Colorado self-audit law.
6. Evaluate and address impacts of climate change on water demand and supply.
NATURAL AREAS AND OPEN LANDS
The City has a vigorous program to protect natural areas and other important open lands within
Fort Collins, within our Community Growth Management Area, and regionally.
The City works in partnership with other communities, Larimer County, private land trusts,
Great Outdoors Colorado, community groups, and state and federal agencies to achieve
community and regional conservation goals.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Maintain or enhance tax incentives to private landowners for voluntary land conservation.
2. Expand the effectiveness of existing protection for wetlands, wildlife habitats, and other
sensitive natural areas.
3. Provide additional funding for land conservation programs.
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4. Protect the Cache la Poudre River.
5. Increase the availability of Great Outdoors Colorado grants to municipalities in amounts
equal to or greater than are currently offered.
OIL AND GAS
Oil and gas extraction activity and associated health and environmental impacts are a concern for
Fort Collins and many communities along the Front Range. There is a portion of a small oil field
within Fort Collins ‘incorporated boundaries, and the City has entered into an Operator
Agreement or Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), that stipulates the operations,
maintenance and inspection process for that operator’s local holdings. Fort Collins residents have
expressed continuing concern about the human and environmental health impacts from oil and
gas operations, particularly from the hydraulic fracturing treatment used on most Colorado wells.
In November 2013, voters approved a five-year moratorium on oil and gas extraction in order to
study its property value and human health impacts.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Encourage state, federal and academic studies evaluating impacts of oil and gas
operations on human health and property values.
2. Establish baseline air pollutant levels and understand the ongoing contributions of the oil
and gas industry to air pollution.
3. Provide local government the authority to inspect oil and gas sites and ensure operator
compliance through enforcement of federal, state and local regulations.
4. Allow communities to understand impacts of oil and gas on water quality.
5. Allow greater local regulation of oil and gas exploration activities within municipal
boundaries.
6. Better balance surface ownership with mineral right ownership.
7. Allow local governments the ability to apply municipal zoning on oil and gas extraction
and storage activities.
8. Maintain the current formula allocation of severance tax to impacted jurisdictions so that
they might address impacts from resource extraction.
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RECYCLING AND SOLID WASTE
The City of Fort Collins endorses a multi-pronged approach to waste minimization that includes
recycling, re-use, composting and source reduction, and which also involves new “Sustainable
Materials Management” principles such as redesigning systems to reduce pollution and waste.
Additionally, the City has adopted a goal of diverting 75 percent of community waste by 2020;
90 percent by 2025 and 100 percent by 2030.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Clarify and broaden the regulatory authority of local government to ensure the efficient
management of recyclable material and solid waste.
2. Encourage integrated waste management planning and implementation, including but not
limited to creation of a state waste diversion goal.
3. Provide incentives and funding for programs that promote waste reduction, reuse and
recycling, and development of related infrastructure.
4. Enable “buy recycled” or “environmentally preferable purchasing” policies for
government agency procurement.
5. Continue or increase funding for programs to collect and monitor data on trash volumes,
rates of diversion from landfill disposal and economic impacts of recycling.
6. Require greater producer responsibility, such as “take back” regulations that assist
consumers to appropriately recycle electronic equipment (e-waste).
7. Establish a deposit fee on beverage containers and that would be used to pay for
recycling programs.
8. Strengthen the “renewable energy” standard; oppose expanding the definition to include
pyrolysis (burning of materials).
9. Minimize waste by developing methods to use waste as an asset, recognizing the
economic benefits and job creation opportunities that occur when resource recovery is
developed as an alternative to landfill disposal for waste products.
10. Partner with neighboring agencies and stakeholders to create facilities and infrastructure
for regionally managing waste to its “highest and best” use.
UTILITY SERVICES
It is critical that the City operate its water, light and power, stormwater and wastewater services
in a financially sound, reliable, safe and environmentally acceptable manner. Like other
municipal utilities across the country, Fort Collins is faced with many new and evolving
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challenges associated with changes in the industry, the replacement and security of its
infrastructure and development and retention of a knowledgeable workforce.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
ENERGY
1. Maintain or improve the reliability of energy delivery to all customers.
2. Promote energy affordability and safety for residents, businesses and institutions.
3. Support reductions of the community’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from energy use in
accordance with the Climate Action Plan (CAP) Framework (March 2015). Current
community GHG goals are a reduction of 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, 80 percent
by 2030 and carbon neutral by 2050.
4. Retain more of our community’s energy expenditures in the local economy.
5. Foster local economic opportunity in energy efficiency, production and operation.
6. Increase our community’s resilience to potential energy and climate related disruptions.
7. Maintain infrastructure security while minimizing restriction to the Utility’s ability to
manage security as an integral part of the system.
8. Provide assistance to local government that balances local design and implementation of
greenhouse gas reduction strategies.
9. Establish uniform standards for the reduction of carbon emissions.
10. Remove barriers to financing for energy efficiency, and encourage and fund energy
efficiency and conservation while allowing local customization of the programs.
11. Reduce community energy use and net energy use of existing buildings.
12. Incent renewable energy production, including wind power, and provide for “State
Implementation Plan” credits for renewable energy (excluding residential wood burning and
corn-based ethanol) and energy efficiency.
13. Reject attempts to prevent or inhibit provision of municipal electric service in newly annexed
areas.
14. Foster smart grid technology adoption and grid modernization.
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WATER SUPPLY AND QUALITY
1. Maintain or expand the authority delegated to the state to administer federally mandated
water, stormwater and wastewater environmental regulatory programs (primacy).
2. Enact reasonable water quality regulations that are cost effective and can show identifiable
benefits.
3. Enable local watershed protection planning.
4. Provide cities the flexibility to enhance in-stream flows to preserve or improve the natural
environment of the stream while protecting the integrity of Colorado’s appropriation doctrine
and City water supply.
5. Recognize the importance of infrastructure security while minimizing restriction to the
Utility’s ability to manage security as an integral part of the system.
6. Stipulate adequate funding for local governments to implement mandated programs.
7. Remove barriers to financing for water conservation projects.
8. Fund recovery and treatment of Cache la Poudre and other waterways impacted by natural
disasters.
9. Enable the City to develop and protect its water supply under Colorado’s appropriation
doctrine without adversely affecting in-stream flows or the natural environment of the
stream.
High Performing Government
Strategic Outcome
Deliver an efficient, innovative, transparent, effective and collaborative city government
Strategic Objectives
1. Improve organizational capability and effectiveness – professional development,
leadership, change management, strategic thinking, fiscal literacy and staff engagement.
2. Improve core Human Resources systems and develop a total reward system.
3. Align similar jobs and skill sets across the organization to address succession planning
and career progression.
4. Strengthen methods of public engagement and reach all segments of the community.
5. Optimize the use of technology to drive efficiency and productivity, and to improve
services.
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6. Enhance the use of performance metrics to assess results.
7. Develop and implement enterprise-wide processes in appropriate areas – “Plan, Do,
Check, Act” process improvement tool, safety, strategic planning, council and strategic
plan tracking tool, budgeting, project management.
8. Assess effectiveness of safety initiatives, develop and implement safety initiatives to
achieve safety goals, and continue to focus on employee health and wellness.
9. Improve productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, customer service and citizen satisfaction
in all areas of the municipal organization.
10. Implement leading-edge and innovative practices that drive performance excellence and
quality improvements across all Service Areas.
11. Proactively influence policy at other levels of government regulation.
12. Promote a values-driven organizational culture that reinforces ethical behavior, exercises
transparency and maintains the public trust.
13. Continuously improve the City’s governance process.
HOME RULE
The City of Fort Collins is a home rule municipality under Article XX (Article 20) of the
Colorado Constitution, which grants home rule municipalities “full right of self-government in
local and municipal matters.” Home rule authority affords the citizens of Fort Collins greater
access to government and increased opportunity for participation and contribution to the
decision-making process.
Home rule is of utmost importance to the City of Fort Collins. The City recognizes, however,
that there are particular areas in which insistence on local control may be untimely or unwise.
Therefore, proposed legislation must be reviewed on a case-by-case basis to determine when it is
in the City's best interest to assert home rule authority and when the City should support
statewide intervention. For example, the City must be free to regulate local activities that
primarily impact the area within the City's boundaries, such as the speed of local traffic or the
effects of particular land use developments. On the other hand, the cumulative effect of these
and other activities has substantial statewide ramifications that may call for statewide regulation,
so that, for example, state regulation may be needed to effectively manage overall growth and
development in the state, traffic congestion in major transportation corridors and environmental
quality.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Strengthen home rule authority of municipal governments.
2. Reject State or Federal intervention in matters of local concern and that unnecessarily or
adversely affect the City’s ability to manage pursuant to its home rule authority.
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HUMAN RESOURCES
The City of Fort Collins is committed to the safety and well-being of its employees. The City
works diligently to be an efficient and responsible steward of tax dollars while ensuring that
employees receive fair and competitive compensation and benefits. The City believes that its
citizens, through their elected representatives on City Council, are in the best position to
determine appropriate City employee compensation, benefits, and policies.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Enhance the City’s ability to decide employment issues, including collective bargaining,
arbitration, compensation, benefits and leaves.
2. Expand the City’s ability to offer health, welfare and wellness services for employees.
3. Maintain current state funding for police officer death and disability benefits.
4. Reject returning employees with defined contribution plans to defined benefit plans if
there is a cost to local government.
RISK MANAGEMENT
The City of Fort Collins recognizes the dual purpose of the workers’ compensation system –
providing benefits promptly to injured employees in a cost-effective manner and minimizing
costly litigation. Council also recognizes that the City’s self-insurance program is a cost-
efficient method to insure workers’ compensation and that government intervention or taxation
can negatively impact the City.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Improve administrative efficiency of the Division of Workers’ Compensation.
2. Resist increased insurance premium costs to employers.
3. Limit or reduce administrative burdens or taxes to self-insurance programs.
4. Limit insurance claim litigation.
5. Increase the City’s options and ability to manage workers’ compensation claims; oppose
actions like removing existing off-sets to workers’ compensation benefits or limiting the
City’s ability to designate treating physicians.
6. Reject efforts to presumptively expand workers’ compensation coverage to illnesses or
injuries that are not work related.
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SOVEREIGN AND GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY
The Fort Collins City Council recognizes that the complexity and diversity of City operations
and services required to meet the needs of the citizens of Fort Collins may expose the City and
its officers and employees to liability for damage and injury. The Council further recognizes that
City officers and employees must be confident that they have the City’s support in the lawful and
proper performance of their assigned duties and responsibilities.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Protect the interests of municipalities and their officers and employees in the lawful and
proper performance of their duties and responsibilities.
2. Discourage baseless and frivolous claims and demands made against municipalities, their
officers and employees.
3. Maintain or enhance municipal liability protections and municipal immunity.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
The City of Fort Collins encourages a competitive, open market for cable and
telecommunications services in order to ensure the public has access to a variety of programming
and services at the lowest cost possible.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statement:
1. Maintain and enhance local franchising authority to preserve local governments’ ability
to negotiate in the public interest for cable channel space, institutional networks and
public education and government programming.
2. Re-establish the rights of municipalities to provide low cost, accessible
telecommunications services and related infrastructure.
3. Revise or repeal SB05-152 so that municipalities may offer high-speed and “advanced
service” broadband to residents.
4. Permit communities to offer high speed internet, Wi-Fi and other enhanced
telecommunication services to residents, schools, academic institutions and businesses.
5. Allow municipalities to provide telecommunication services within City-owned facilities
and on City property.
6. Enhance exclusive digital communication networks for public safety personnel during
emergencies.
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Safe Community
Strategic Outcome
Provide a safe place to live, work, learn and play
Strategic Objectives
1. Provide facilities and training capabilities to support a high caliber police force.
2. Optimize the use of technology to drive efficiency, productivity and customer service.
3. Align staffing levels to deliver services that meet community expectations and needs, and
increase public safety operational efficiency.
4. Protect life and property with natural, aesthetically pleasing flood mitigation facilities
through building codes and development regulations.
5. Develop and implement emergency preparation, response and recovery plans across the
organization in collaboration with other community efforts.
6. Improve safety for all modes of travel including vehicular, pedestrian and bicycles.
7. Use data to focus police efforts on reducing crime and disorder within the community.
8. Improve community involvement, education and regional partnerships to make our
community safer and stronger.
9. Partner with Poudre Fire Authority to provide fire and emergency services.
10. Provide a high-quality, sustainable water supply that meets or exceeds all public health
standards and supports a healthy and safe community.
FIRE PROTECTION
The Fort Collins City Council recognizes the critical importance of maintaining a safe
environment and protecting the lives and property of the citizens of Fort Collins.
Therefore the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Institute a state fire code, the code of choice being the 2012 International Building and
Fire Code, and allow municipalities to adopt their own amendments.
2. Reject limits to local enforcement of the International Fire Code as adopted with local
amendments, imposing inspection requirements or preventing collection of permit or
inspection fees as required by the local jurisdiction.
3. Enhance life safety and property protection through the installation of fire protection
systems in structures when appropriate.
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4. Strengthen the City’s ability to prohibit the use and sale of fireworks and allow counties
and fire districts to prohibit and otherwise control fireworks.
5. Promote fire safety, education and prevention with the goal of reducing injury, loss of life
and property damage.
6. Allow local jurisdictions to implement open burning restrictions.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
It is an important concern of the City to safeguard Fort Collins’ health and environmental safety
by reducing risks from the unauthorized release of hazardous materials or hazardous waste.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Allow the City to continue controlling risks from hazardous materials use, storage and
transportation through the International Building and Fire Code and related local
amendments.
2. Allow Fort Collins to adopt local regulations for hazardous materials, including review
and approval of the location of facilities that use or store hazardous materials or
hazardous waste.
3. Strengthen the enforcement of hazardous materials regulations.
4. Strengthen the diversion of hazardous waste from landfills.
5. Establish greater flexibility and more options for local government in the management of
publicly-owned areas thought to have asbestos-containing soils while maintaining
responsible site management practices.
6. Prevent and penalize improper storage and disposal of hazardous or exploration and
production (E&P) wastes from oil and gas operations within municipal boundaries.
7. Preserve community safety by ensuring emergency responders have all available
information needed to effectively address disasters and maintain public well-being.
8. Ensure hazardous materials are not stored or used within the 100-year floodplain.
MARIJUANA
In 2012, Colorado voters approved Amendment 64 which legalizes the possession of adult-use or
recreational marijuana in the state. During the same election Fort Collins residents voted to
approve the use of medical marijuana within the city. Federal law maintains that marijuana is a
schedule 1 drug and, as such, can neither be possessed and used nor researched.
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Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Regulate medical and retail marijuana manufacturing, distribution and dispensaries.
2. Clarify the implementation and local rights and responsibilities related to Amendment 64.
3. Clarify and align federal marijuana law with the Colorado Constitution.
4. Protect communities’ ability to raise necessary funds to maintain public safety and
enforce marijuana possession laws.
5. Prevent under-21 access to marijuana.
6. Clarify the rights of individuals, landlords and homeowner associations in limiting or
preventing growing or consuming marijuana in multi-family dwellings.
7. Provide additional state marijuana enforcement resources, especially for field
enforcement.
8. Limit THC content per serving size and restrict packaging to a single serving.
PUBLIC SAFETY
The Fort Collins City Council recognizes the critical importance of maintaining public order,
providing a safe environment, and protecting the lives and property of the citizens of Fort Collins.
Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements:
1. Develop treatment and intervention programs, especially for youth, which have the
potential to reduce incidents of violence in the community.
2. Provide greater protection to victims of crime.
3. Maintain or enhance the City’s right to use camera enforcement of traffic laws, reduce
operational restrictions on the use of camera enforcement, and increases the fines
associated with violations.
4. Establish protocols and funding for shared, statewide emergency response
communications.
5. Reject initiatives that have the potential to compromise officer safety.
6. Establish minimum training criteria and professional mediator certification that formally
legitimizes the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
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7. Regulate the use of cell phones by motorists while operating a vehicle.
8. Preserve or increase funding for treatment of mental illness and substance abuse
disorders.
9. Maintain or enhance a statewide database of concealed weapons permits.
10. Seek to reduce community flood risks.
11. Reduce cities’ liability for prisoners’ self-inflicted wounds while in police custody or
detention facilities.
12. Restrict access to illegal substances.
13. Require greater producer responsibility, such as “take back” for prescription drugs to
avoid these substances being abused or being disposed of into the water supply.
14. Clarify the qualifications for what types and purposes a business may obtain and use a
state liquor license.
15. Define what qualifies as a “meal” when calculating the percentage of meals served for a
liquor license.
16. Increasing state, regional and local disaster resilience.
17. Promote efforts to reduce conflict between community members and law enforcement.
18. Encourage the voluntary use of body-worn camera technology on officers and
development of community-specific standards for the use of cameras and their data.
19. Develop grant programs for police department use to fund the purchase, training and
deployment of body-worn cameras and the retention of footage.
Transportation
Strategic Outcome
Provide for safe and reliable multi-modal travel to, from, and throughout the city
Strategic Objectives
1. Improve safety of all modes of travel.
2. Improve transit availability and grow ridership through extended hours, improved
headways, and Sunday service in appropriate activity centers.
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3. Fill the gaps for all modes of travel and improve the current transportation infrastructure
while enhancing the aesthetic environment.
4. Improve traffic flow for all modes of transporting people, goods and information to
benefit both individuals and the business community.
5. Create and implement long-term transportation planning and help local and regional
transportation networks operate at a high level of efficiency, including the airport.
6. Support efforts to achieve climate action goals by reducing mobile emissions and
supporting multiple modes of transportation.
7. Create and implement planning, engineering and financial strategies to address adequate
infrastructure within the northeast area of Fort Collins.
TRANSPORTATION
The City actively promotes the safety and ease of traveling to, from and throughout the
community using a variety of modes of transportation. Additionally, the City’s policy is to
encourage the use of alternative transportation whenever appropriate.
Therefore, the City supports the following policies:
1. Facilitate cooperative programs among government agencies in order to help the City meet
its basic transportation needs, including transit, street, highway, road and bridge
construction and maintenance, and safe corridors for bicyclists, pedestrians and those using
mobility aid devices.
2. Reject reductions to the present allocation formula of 60 percent state, 22 percent counties,
and 18 percent municipalities for Highway User Tax Fund (HUTF) or any appropriations
from the state using the same formula.
3. Explore and analyze alternative methods of funding transportation infrastructure needs.
4. Fund analysis and implementation of inter- and intra-regional transit linkages, including
future commuter rail connectivity.
5. Facilitate regional planning for various modes of transportation with the goal of providing
practical solutions to reduce reliance on single-occupant vehicles.
6. Encourage flexibility in federal funding and regulations in order to better meet the needs of
small to medium-size communities.
7. Encourage or incent locating affordable housing near transit for greatest accessibility.
8. Preserve the guaranteed levels of federal funding for transportation and allocation of all
federal motor fuel taxes and other federal transportation trust funds for their intended
transportation purposes.
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9. Broaden the definition of the gasoline tax to a “fuel tax” that encompasses other fuel
options as they become more prevalent.
10. Increase local governments’ ability to prevent railroad trains from blocking street and
highway grade crossings for unreasonable time periods.
11. Foster dialogue between railroad operators and communities aimed at solutions to rail
proximity issues.
12. Facilitate the implementation of railroad quiet zones in municipalities and reduce train horn
decibel and duration requirements in existing federal rule.
13. Reject divesting key highway roads in urban areas from the state and make them the sole
responsibility of local jurisdictions.
14. Maintain safe operation of railroads through timely track inspections, joint training and
communication between railroad and emergency personnel, and the use of safe equipment.
15. Develop financing programs for Interstate 25 improvements.
16. Explore solutions to improve bicycle safety and fund implementation projects in
communities.
17. Clarify federal and state regulations in order to preserve local governments’ ability to
utilize unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for service-related purposes.
18. Ensure local government has access to test the use of UAVs in service delivery.
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CITY OF FORT COLLINS LEGISLATIVE CONTACTS
Legislative Review Committee
Name District/Title Email Phone
Councilmember Gino Campana District 3 gcampana@fcgov.com (970) 460-6329
Councilmember Ross Cunniff District 5 rcunniff@fcgov.com (970) 420-7398
Councilmember Ray Martinez District 2 raymartinez@fcgov.com (970) 690 3686
Wendy Williams Assistant City Manager wwilliams@fcgov.com (970) 416-2899
Carrie Daggett City Attorney cdaggett@fcgov.com (970) 416-2463
Dan Weinheimer Legislative Policy
Manager
dweinheimer@fcgov.com (970) 416-2253
Legislative Staff Liaison Members
Topic Area Name Title Email Phone
Affordable Housing
and Social
Sustainability
Beth Sowder Social Sustainability
Director
bsowder@fcgov.com (970) 221-6752
Air Quality Lindsay Ex Environmental Program
Manager
lex@fcgov.com (970) 224-6143
Cable Television
Franchise
Carson Hamlin Cable Television
Manager
chamlin@fcgov.com (970) 221-6510
Climate and
Environmental
Protection
Lucinda Smith Environmental Services
Director
lsmith@fcgov.com (970) 224-6085
Elections, Liquor
Licensing, Medical
Marijuana Licensing
Wanda
Winkelmann
City Clerk wwinkelmann@fcgov.com (970) 416-2995
Cultural Services,
Parks and Recreation
Mike Calhoon Director of Parks mcalhoon@fcgov.com (970) 416-2079
Energy Lisa Rosintoski Utility Customer
Connections Manager
lrosintoski@fcgov.com (970) 416-2432
Finance Michael
Beckstead
Chief Financial Officer mbeckstead@fcgov.com (970) 221-6795
Economic Health Josh Birks Economic Health
Director
jbirks@fcgov.com (970) 221-6324
Fire Protection and
Hazardous Materials
Management
Bob Poncelow Division Chief, Poudre
Fire Authority
bponcelow@poudre-
fire.org
(970) 416-2871
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Poudre River Issues
Neighborhood and
Building Services
Mike Gebo Chief Building Official mgebo@fcgov.com (970) 416-2618
Planning and Land
Use
Tom Leeson Community
Development and
Neighborhood Services
Director
tleeson@fcgov.com (970) 221-6287
Public Safety Jerry Schiager Assistant Chief jschiager@fcgov.com (970) 416-2587
Recycling and Solid
Waste
Susie Gordon Senior Environmental
Planner
sgordon@fcgov.com (970) 221-6265
Risk Management Lance Murray Risk Manager lmurray@fcgov.com (970) 221-6807
Stormwater Jon Haukaas Water Engineering Field
Operations Manager
jhaukaas@fcgov.com (970) 221-6671
Transportation Mark Jackson Planning, Development
and Transportation
Deputy Director
mjackson@fcgov.com (970) 416-2029
Utilities Customer
Service
Lisa Rosintoski Utility Customer
Connections Manager
lrosintoski@fcgov.com (970) 416-2432
Water Supply and
Quality
Carol Webb Water Resource and
Treatment Operations
Manager
cwebb@fcgov.com (970) 221-6231
Human Resources Janet Miller Assistant Human
Resources Director
jamiller@fcgov.com (970) 221-6826
Legal Carrie Daggett City Attorney cdaggett@fcgov.com (970) 416-2463
Natural Areas, Open
Lands and Cache la
John Stokes Natural Resources
Director
jstokes@fcgov.com (970) 221-6263
Human Resources Janet Miller Assistant Human
Resources Director
jamiller@fcgov.com (970) 221-6826
Legal Carrie Daggett City Attorney cdaggett@fcgov.com (970) 416-2463
Natural Areas, Open
Lands and Cache la
John Stokes Natural Resources
Director
jstokes@fcgov.com (970) 221-6263
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