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Home My WebLink AboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 07/05/2017 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 077, 2017, AMENDINAgenda Item 5 Item # 5 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY July 5, 2017 City Council STAFF Seth Lorson, Transit Planner SUBJECT Second Reading of Ordinance No. 077, 2017, Amending the Fort Collins Traffic Code Regarding Stadium Events. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on June 6, 2017, adopts a new violation of the Residential Parking Permit Program (RP3) for Colorado State University’s (CSU) major stadium events. Consistent with the intergovernmental agreement (IGA) between the City and CSU, staff has worked with neighborhoods adjacent to the university campus to develop parking restrictions during major events at the new CSU stadium. Non-residents will not be permitted to park in participating neighborhoods during football games or any events with an expected attendance of 12,000 or greater. City Parking Services staff will be enforcing these restrictions four hours prior to the start of an event until the end of the event. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading. ATTACHMENTS 1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, June 6, 2017 (w/o attachments) (PDF) 2. Ordinance No. 077, 2017 (PDF) Agenda Item 9 Item # 9 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY June 6, 2017 City Council STAFF Seth Lorson, Transit Planner SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 077, 2017, Amending the Fort Collins Traffic Code Regarding Stadium Events. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this item is to formally adopt a new violation of the Residential Parking Permit Program (RP3) for Colorado State University’s (CSU) major stadium events. Consistent with the intergovernmental agreement (IGA) between the City and CSU, staff has worked with neighborhoods adjacent to the university campus to develop parking restrictions during major events at the new CSU stadium. Non-residents will not be permitted to park in participating neighborhoods during football games or any events with an expected attendance of 12,000 or greater. City Parking Services staff will be enforcing these restrictions four hours prior to the start of an event until the end of the event. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION The plan for implementing RP3 for stadium events was presented to City Council at the March 28 Work Session. Staff has decided to create a separate violation for parking in an RP3 during major stadium events, but will not codify the amount of the fine. All fines in the City are set by the Municipal Judge in a Schedule of Fines available to the general public. The Municipal Judge sets the fines after input from staff and the City Attorney’s Office. Currently, the regular RP3 fine is $25. Staff intends to propose a $100 fine to the Municipal Judge as the fine amount for persons violating the new Code provision. There are several reasons staff has concluded a $100 fine would be appropriate. First, event parking for football games is anticipated to cost $20. That amount will likely rise in the future so a $25 fine is little to no deterrent for those conducting a cost/benefit analysis of risking a parking ticket over paying $20 (or more) for parking. The $100 fine would match the highest parking ticket cost of parking in disabled parking, which is also a $100 fine. At the work session, Councilmembers generally expressed agreement with this approach. (Attachment 1) Standards in place during stadium events follow:  No non-permitted vehicles may park in participating neighborhoods beginning four hours prior to an event until the end of the event.  No two-hour parking is permitted.  No commuter permits are offered. ATTACHMENT 1 Agenda Item 9 Item # 9 Page 2  Residents may use their RP3 permits from the existing weekday program. If a neighborhood does not have a weekday program, 2 permits per household will be issued free of charge.  Residents may have up to two guest permits per event. CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS Consistent with the IGA, Colorado State University will be paying for implementation of the program. BOARD / COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION The Parking Advisory Board expressed opposition to the RP3 for Stadium Events program, citing that it is unwelcoming to out-of-town visitors. If the program continues, permits should be made available for non- residents. (Attachment 2) PUBLIC OUTREACH Staff held three communitywide meetings and four neighborhood meetings to discuss the program. ATTACHMENTS 1. Work Session Summary, March 28, 2017 (PDF) 2. Parking Advisory Board Recommendation, March 13, 2017 (PDF) -1- ORDINANCE NO. 077, 2017 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS AMENDING THE FORT COLLINS TRAFFIC CODE REGARDING STADIUM EVENTS WHEREAS, on August 20, 2013, by Ordinance No. 103, 2013, the City Council established a residential parking permit zone program (“RP3”) with the goal of reducing traffic and excessive noise, preserving property values, and protecting residents in certain areas prone to parking from nonresidents; and WHEREAS, on April 13, 2015, in anticipation of the new on-campus stadium at Colorado State University (“CSU”), the City and CSU entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement to develop plans for mitigating the impacts of the stadium (“IGA”); and WHEREAS, the IGA recognizes major events at CSU’s stadium will impact parking and traffic in nearby neighborhoods; and WHEREAS, the City wishes to minimize impacts to neighborhoods near the stadium by providing a new and separate violation of the City’s Traffic Code for parking in an RP3 during a major stadium event; and WHEREAS, the City Council believes it is necessary for the preservation of the health, safety, and welfare of the City’s citizens to amend the Traffic Code to reflect a new violation for parking in an RP3 during major stadium events. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED 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 Section 1214.5 of the Traffic Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 1214.5. Permitted Parking . . . (6) Only vehicles that have been properly permitted pursuant to Article V of Chapter 24 of the City Code may park within a residential parking permit zone during, or within the four hours before the official start time of, a stadium event. Any person violating any regulation set forth in 1214.5(1), (2), (4), or (5) during, or within the four hours before the official start time of, a stadium event, shall be subject to the penalties of this Subsection (6). -2- (a) For purposes of this Subsection, a stadium event is defined as any event held at the on-campus stadium at Colorado State University at which attendance is reasonably anticipated by Colorado State University or the City to exceed 12,000 persons. (b) There is hereby established a rebuttable presumption that a stadium event is occurring or has occurred when Colorado State University or the City has provided advance notice of such event to the general public: (I) on its official website; (II) on any of its generally used social media web pages; (III) in a local newspaper of general circulation; or (IV) through the use of temporary signs near the stadium on the same calendar day as the stadium event. Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 6th day of June, A.D. 2017, and to be presented for final passage on the 5th day of July, A.D. 2017. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading on the 5th day of July, A.D. 2017. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk