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Legislative Review Committee Agenda
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
4:00 - 5:00PM
Council Information Chambers (CIC) in City Hall
300 LaPorte Ave
In-person with Zoom option: https://fcgov.zoom.us/j/91534218778
1. Approval of minutes from September 17, 2024 meeting
a. Attached: draft September 17, 2024 minutes
2. Review updated Legislative Policy Agenda
a. Redline and Clean versions attached
3. Other Business and Announcements
a. Follow-up: CC4CA membership-$30,900 in 2024
b. Meet and dinner with Legislators: Tuesday, November 19, 2024; 4-6pm
Next Meeting: January 21, 2025
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Fort Collins, CO 80522
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DRAFT - Legislative Review Committee Minutes
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Councilmembers present: Councilmember Pignataro, Councilmember Canonico, Councilmember
Gutowsky, Councilmember Ohlson
Staff present: Ginny Sawyer, Sylvia Tatman-Burruss, Max Valadez
Guests present: Anita Seitz (CC4CA) , Ed Bowditch
1. Approval of minutes from September 3, 2024 meeting: Pignataro moved, seconded by
Canonico. Passed 2-0.
2. Colorado Communities for Climate Action (CC4CA)
• Background, updates, and alignment for 2025 legislative session were discussed:
• Anita gave a broad overview of CC4CA’s history, purpose, structure, and current
work on climate initiatives in Colorado via policy advocacy.
• 2024 Legislative Session themes:
Budget constraints (Deficit)
Acrimony at the Capitol
Active Governor/Administration:
• Land Use- a lot of feelings on this within legislature, administration
stakeholder-ed with local governments to create attainable change in
legislation.
• Industry and labor groups “on the offense”.
• SB23-213 (Major Land Use)
o Reminder that this bill died in final hours of legislative session, will likely
be brought back in next session.
• Amendments:
o SB 24-230 – “Grand bargain” Requires enterprises to impose a
production fee for clean transit to be paid quarterly by every oil/gas
producer in CO.
o SB 229- CC4CA support this bill, concerning measures to mitigate ozone
pollution in the state.
• Looking ahead:
o CC4CA is taking a strong role in advancing active transportation funding and
hazard mitigation enterprise updates.
o Aware of & monitoring legislation regarding:
100% renewable energy
Transit mode choice
Motor vehicle budgets
Net metering 50/50
OEDIT reform
EPR for batteries/hazardous waste
• Engagement opportunities for Councilmembers:
o Legislative testimony
o Regulatory hearing testimony & public comment
o Outreach to & meeting with state and federal legislators
o Publishing “Letters to the Editor” (LTE) and guest editorials
• Questions from Council/Staff:
o What will involvement in legislation be going forward?
Anticipate taking stances on about 70 items of legislation.
o Total staffing for CC4CA?
3 FTEs
2 contracted part-time
Funded by participating communities/members.
• Grants (incl. Federal)
• Fees & dues
o Based on population of communities, tier of
membership.
o Some communities give higher dues to expand capacity.
o Any possibility for involvement of larger communities (Denver)?
CC4CA noted past and current efforts to bring in larger cities.
3. Other Business and Announcements
• Ed shared:
o Many anticipated new electeds have local government experience (staff, City
official/City Council).
o There will be some new programming at state level, but it is a tight budget year that
will present challenges.
• Tuesday, Nov. 19th 4-6PM: Dinner with legislators prior to Council meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 4:55PM
Next Meeting: October 15, 2024, 4-5PM
• Will review policy agenda, biggest changes coming in environmental policy space.
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20242025-2026 LEGISLATIVE POLICY AGENDA
ADOPTED NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 3
CITY OF FORT COLLINS LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE ................................ 3
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW PROCESS .................................................................................. 4
HOME RULE AND LOCAL CONTROL ................................................................................... 5
ACCESSIBILITY - ONLINE AND PUBLIC MEETINGS ........................................................... 5
AIR QUALITY ......................................................................................................................... 6
BEER AND LIQUOR ............................................................................................................... 6
BROADBAND AND CABLE ...................................................................................................76
CHILDCARE ........................................................................................................................... 7
CLIMATE ...............................................................................................................................87
ELECTIONS ........................................................................................................................... 8
ENERGY ................................................................................................................................98
FINANCE ............................................................................................................................. 109
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT .........................................................................10
HEALTH CARE ......................................................................................................................10
HOUSING .......................................................................................................................... 1110
HUMAN RESOURCES ...................................................................................................... 1211
IMMIGRATION AND NATIONAL BORDER CONDITIONS ....................................................12
INTEGRATED LAND USE, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
..............................................................................................................................................13
LICENSED SUBSTANCES ................................................................................................ 1413
MUNICIPAL COURT .......................................................................................................... 1514
OIL AND GAS .................................................................................................................... 1514
OPEN RECORDS AND DATA MANAGEMENT ................................................................. 1615
PARKS, NATURAL AREAS, AND PUBLIC AMENITIES .................................................... 1615
PUBLIC HEALTH ............................................................................................................... 1716
PUBLIC SAFETY ............................................................................................................... 1716
RECYCLING AND SOLID WASTE REDUCTION .............................................................. 1917
RISK MANAGEMENT AND LIABILITY .............................................................................. 2018
SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT .......................................................................................... 2019
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TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT .................................................................................. 2019
URBAN RENEWAL AND DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ................................................. 2120
WATER, WASTEWATER, AND STORMWATER ............................................................... 2220
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE ............................................................................... 2422
LEGISLATIVE STAFF LIAISON MEMBERS ...................................................................... 2422
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INTRODUCTION
Fort Collins is a community of approximately 175,000 residents. Incorporated in 1873, it 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 provides exceptional service for an exceptional community and works toward its vision
of fostering a thriving and engaged community through its operational excellence and culture of
innovation. City leaders seek creative, data-informed solutions to issues facing Fort Collins and
are often willing to leverage emerging technologies.
The Fort Collins City Council annually adopts a Policy Agenda ahead of the upcoming Colorado
General Assembly session for the purpose of guiding legislators and staff in supporting
community goals.
The Policy Agenda is a broad set of policy statements meant to convey positions on issues that
affect the community’s quality of life and governance. It is structured to address areas of local
concern and to also reflect the strategic planning that guides the City’s organizational resource
allocation and decision-making.
Fort Collins welcomes opportunities to work in partnership to leverage additional resources and
participate in regional dialogue to achieve shared outcomes.
The City has identified seven outcome areas to ensure appropriate and effective resource
allocation supporting the community’s priorities:
Culture & Recreation
Economic Health
Environmental Health
High Performing Government
Neighborhood Livability & Social Health
Safe Community
Transportation & Mobility
The Policy Agenda identifies this alignment as it 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 Councilmembers that
reviews and reacts to proposed legislation on behalf of City Council and the City.
In taking a position on bills, the LRC interprets and applies the various policies that are included
in the Legislative Policy Agenda.
Councilmembers presently serving on the Legislative Review Committee are:
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Councilmember Tricia Canonico, Chair
Councilmember Shirley Peel
Mayor Jeni Arndt
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW PROCESS
In 2024, Thethe City of Fort Collins will reliesy heavily on the Legislative Policy Agenda, the
Colorado Municipal League, and the Colorado Communities for Climate Action organizations for
the majority of bill tracking and identification.
The City currently maintains memberships with the Colorado Municipal League (CML) and
Colorado Communities for Climate Action (CC4CA); both groups maintain a full-time presence
at the capitol and engage in bill identification and advocacy consistent with their own adopted
policy agendas. The City influences both groups’ policy agendas and, while not perfectly
consistent with the City’s, both generally advance and protect the City’s interests.
Bills introduced in the Colorado General Assembly or United States Congress and federal, state
or county regulations or rule-makings are reviewed by City staff. Bills, regulations and rules that
are identified as having a potential impact on the City will be brought to the LRC for discussion.
If the LRC adopts a position, staff will convey that information to the appropriate state or federal
representative and advocate for the adopted position.
If staff or Councilmembers are contacted regarding letters of support or opposition from CML,
CC4CA or representatives, staff will ensure alignment with the LPA and provide a letter signed
by the Mayor. If staff or Councilmembers are contacted by lobbyists or other interest groups with
requests for letters of support or opposition, no action will be taken unless directed by the LRC.
Due to the time-sensitive nature of the General Assembly, if a bill’s subject matter is addressed
in this Policy Agenda, staff will proactively work with state and federal representatives to
advance the City’s position as expressed in this LPA and other Council-adopted plans and
policies. Staff will provide regular updates to the LRC and the full City Council regarding bills of
consequence to the City and will consult with the LRC regarding bills for which direction under
the adopted policy is unclear.
Staff liaisons support the LRC by contributing expertise in various areas of municipal service.
The City Attorney’s Office also reviews selected bills and may provide confidential legal
analysis. 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 maintains membership with the
Colorado Association of Municipal Utilities (CAMU), which represents 29 municipal utilities
throughout the state on utility issues, and Colorado Communities for Climate Action (CC4CA),
which represents municipalities on climate issues. In addition, Fort Collins actively participates
in various trade organizations that represent specific areas of interest to City operations.
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2024 LEGISLATIVE POLICY STATEMENTS
HOME RULE AND LOCAL CONTROL
In order to consider and manage local conditions and desires, community issues and needs
should be addressed locally. For this reason, home rule authority is of utmost importance to the
City of Fort Collins. 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. The City also understands the cumulative effect of these and other
activities has statewide ramifications that may call for statewide regulation to effectively manage
such things as overall growth and development in the state, water, traffic congestion in major
transportation corridors and environmental quality.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports strengthening and preserving home rule authority of municipal governments.
2. Opposes state or federal intervention in matters of local concern or matters that
unnecessarily or adversely affect the City’s ability to manage and operate pursuant to its
home rule authority.
3. Opposes changes that increase (and supports changes that lessen) the burdens and
limits on municipalities associated with public or other government records, public
meetings and establishment of ethics standards and procedures, operation of municipal
courts, and other matters of municipal operations or authority including added cost
burdens.
4. Supports enabling cities to choose the provision of services through private enterprise in
a manner that fosters cost effective, sustainable, quality services.
5. Supports local control of the awarding of contracts and the accountability of local officials
for those actions.
6. Opposes unfunded mandates that increase the complexity and cost of services.
7. Supports collaborative regional efforts for the benefit of participating communities.
ACCESSIBILITY – ONLINE AND PUBLIC MEETINGS
HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The City recognizes the importance of making digital content and public meetings accessible for
all. The City is committed to advancing statewide efforts to improve accessibility while believing
that such efforts must be practical and achievable for impacted entities.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports clear definitions for public meetings requiring online accessibility.
2. Supports unified federal standards for web and online accessibility requirements and
reasonable timelines to comply after standards and rules are made known, at either the
state or federal level.
3. Supports ensuring municipalities’ ability to engage vendors to ensure compliance with
technology accessibility requirements.
4. Supports allowing local governments to exempt archived documents and allow “safe
harbor” while working toward compliance.
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AIR QUALITY
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
The City’s Air Quality Plan reiterates the adopted City Plan strong overall goal is committed
to“to protecting human health and the environment through continuous improvements in air
quality. This involves a comprehensive approach of measuring, mitigating pollutants and
adapting to air quality challenges.
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Therefore, the City:
1. Supports programs and policies that improve public health and indoor and outdoor air
quality, including attainment of National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone.
2. Supports local government authority to improve indoor and outdoor air quality beyond
minimum state or federal requirements.
3. Supports implementation of expanded air quality monitoring programs, particularly in
disproportionately impacted communities.
4. Supports adequate authority and resource at all levels of government to enforce air
quality regulations, including increased penalties for repeat violators..
5. Supports economic incentives, disincentives and other market approaches that promote
low emission and zero emission alternatives to carbon-based fuels.
5. Supports development and implementation of targeted ozone reduction
strategies, including seasonal emission budgets for major polluters.
6. Supports measures to reduce emissions from industrial sources, regional oil and
gas operations and gas-powered vehicles and equipment, particularly in non-
attainment areas.
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6.7. Supports strengthening vehicle and fuel efficiency standards for internal
combustion engine vehicles, including programs and policies that promote their
replacement with use of zero- and low-emission vehicles (e.g., electric vehicles) and the
development of charging infrastructure. needed to support the use of those vehicles.
7. Supports programs or incentives that reduce vehicle miles traveled through transit-
oriented development and enhanced access to alternative modes (e.g., walking, biking
and transit).
8. . Supports policies that address both air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions
simultaneously, recognizing their interconnected nature and impacts.
BEER AND LIQUOR
SAFE COMMUNITY
The City issues and renews liquor licenses, enforces license rules, and holds hearings for liquor
license violations.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports greater local licensing final authority for all types of licensing and related fees
(New, Transfers, Modifications, and Manager Registration.)
2. Supports a sharing of accountability of serving violations between license holder and
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individual server or store clerk.
3. Supports permanent ability for licensees to service alcohol on a temporary/permanent
basis in non-contiguous areas.
BROADBAND AND CABLE
ECONOMIC HEALTH
Reliable, high-speed and affordable access to broadband and cable programming throughout
the community remains a priority and a long-term goal for the City to ensure economic vitality
and allow equal access for all residents and businesses.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports maintaining local franchising authority to preserve local governments’ ability to
negotiate in the public interest for cable channel space; institutional networks; and
public, educational and governmental (PEG) programming; and to charge franchise and
PEG fees to support local programming and compensate for the use of rights-of-way.
2. Supports allowing communities to offer and/or partner to offer high-speed internet, Wi-Fi
and other enhanced telecommunication services to residents, schools, academic
institutions and businesses.
3. Opposes restrictions on providing telecommunication services within City-owned
facilities and on City property, and related restrictions on the manner in which such
services may be financed, funded or structured.
4. Opposes infringement on municipalities’ ability to compete in the broadband
marketplace.
5. Opposes right-of-way use contrary to existing aesthetic policies and practices, including
the addition of any above-ground cabling.
6. Supports revisions to the Colorado Open Meetings Law to allow local jurisdictions that
provide or arrange for telecommunications services or facilities to authorize executive
sessions for discussion of matters pertaining to competition in the provision of
telecommunication services and facilities (such as matters subject to negotiation,
strategic planning, pricing, sales and marketing, and development planning), along with
any other conforming statutory changes.
7. Supports prioritizing state and federal broadband grants and funding to municipal and
co-op broadband operations.
CHILDCARE
ECONOMIC HEALTH, NEIGHBORHOOD LIVABILITY & SOCIAL HEALTH
The City of Fort Collins recognizes the criticality of quality, affordable and accessible childcare
for families and businesses in the community. The City’s role is to help reduce barriers, increase
capacity, leverage assets, identify and respond to childcare needs, and lead by example as an
employer.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports programs and policies that improve the severe shortage of childcare openings
with licensed providers, including programs and incentives that promote the expansion
of existing childcare centers and development of new centers, particularly those serving
low-income families and offering extended hours of operation.
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2. Supports regulations that streamline requirements and reduce the complexity and cost of
childcare services, including licensing and educational requirements, when those
mandates are not clearly benefiting the health and safety of children and the community.
3. Supports increased funding for early childhood education.
4. Supports workforce development in the early care and education field, including
scholarships, training programs and simplified credentialing processes.
5. Supports increased and sustainable public subsidization of childcare costs, including
proposals to support living wages for providers and those that reduce the cost burden on
families.
CLIMATE
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
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. In response to the climate
emergency, Fort Collins has adopted aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction
goals and supports policies and legislation to help helping communities and the state to achieve
these the goals and outcomes of, and enhance the environment as detailed in the Our Climate
Future, including commitments to equity and resilience. Plan. Making communities more
resilient to disaster and the effects of a changing climate has become more important to
Colorado communities in recent years as extreme heat and natural disasters such as wildfires
and flooding have caused significant human health issues, loss of life, and property loss.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports policies that put equity at the center of decision-making to consider systemic
inequities in energy and climate impacts, based on race or socioeconomic status, to
justly transition and grow a clean energy future.
2. Supports greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction strategies at all levels of
government, including setting reduction targets, climate planning, and mechanisms for
data collection to inform GHG inventories. targets, planning, mechanisms that support
the gathering of data to inform GHG inventories, and implementation at all levels of
government.
3. Supports incentives, regulations, and other economic, behavorial, and regulatory
mechanisms to reduce emissions and enhance resilience in energy, waste reduction,
transportation, and water sectors., as well as in responding to wildfire and other climate-
related extreme weather events.
3.4. Supports resilience and adaptation planning policies for wildfire, extrmem heat,
flooding, and other events related to human-caused climate disruption.
4.5. Supports protection of the Colorado self-audit law.
5.6. Supports policies promoting emerging methods of effective atmospheric carbon
reduction through proven means.
6.7. Supports policies that influence investment decisions of public sector resources
to reduce GHG emissions and increase community resilience.
ELECTIONS
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HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The City of Fort Collins conducts municipal elections and special elections as required by the
citizen (or Council) initiative process. The City is committed to conducting a clear, legal and
trustworthy elections process.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports all efforts that assist the City in conducting fair and transparent election
processes according to the City’s adopted procedures.
2. Supports process improvements that encourage voter participation.
3. Supports additional mechanisms to prevent election tampering through increased
cybersecurity around election data and the election processes.
ENERGY
ECONOMIC HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Through its municipally owned electric utility, the City is committed to providing affordable,
reliable and clean energy services to residents and businesses, as described in the Our Climate
Future plan. Energy issues extend beyond electricity to also encompass the community’s use of
natural gas and petroleum.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports efforts that promote energy affordability in general for residents, businesses
and institutions and specifically for households with high energy bill burdens.
2. Supports efforts that promote safety in the generation, transmission and distribution of
energy.
3. Supports efforts and incentives that promote energy efficiency, conservation, distributed
energy resources, electrification and grid flexibility.
4. Supports opportunities for local economic activities related to energy efficiency, clean
energy production and utility operations.
5. Supports initiatives to reduce or eliminate natural gas and petroleum use via beneficial
electrification for thermal and transportation needs.
6. Supports initiatives that reduce barriers to coordinated integrated planning for energy
supply and demands.
7. Supports state and federal funding for resilience efforts to mitigate potential energy- and
climate-related disruptions.
8. Supports implementation of the state’s Clean Energy Plans to reduce emissions from
electricity statewide while considering reliability, affordability and regulatory roles.
9. Opposes attempts to prevent or inhibit provision of municipal electric service in newly
annexed areas.
10. Supports smart grid technology adoption and grid modernization.
11. Supports minimizing the environmental impacts of energy production, reducing fossil fuel
generated electricity and eliminating the use of coal.
12. Supports efforts that promote the development of regional electricity markets.
13. Supports the local determination of electric rates and distributed resources credits that
balance the impacts to participants and non-participants to create a robust local
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renewable generation system.
FINANCE
ECONOMIC HEALTH, HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
Strong fiscal planning, prudent debt management and investment policies, 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:
1. Supports expanding municipal authority to establish alternative funding mechanisms,
including financing tools such as public improvement fees (PIF) and certificates of
participation (COP).
2. Supports increased funding for K-12 and higher education, specifically Colorado State
University and Front Range Community College.
3. Encourages the equitable treatment and continued simplification of sales and use taxes
to residents and corporations residing or doing business in Colorado by limiting
exemptions.
4. Supports the equitable distribution sales tax collections on e-commerce transactions.
5.4. Opposes efforts that inhibit the City’s ability and authority to increase its revenue
base (i.e., sales, use and property taxes).
6.5. Supports protections that do not unnecessarily restrict the investments of
government entities in instrumentation nor in custodial relationships with banks or credit
unions..
7.6. Supports programs that provide economic assistance to organizations and
individuals impacted by health emergencies.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
SAFE COMMUNITY, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
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:
1. Supports strengthening the enforcement of hazardous materials regulations.
2. Supports increasing diversion of hazardous waste from landfills.
3. Supports local governments’ ability and authority to review and approve locations of
facilities that use or store hazardous materials or hazardous waste.
HEALTH CARE
NEIGHBORHOOD LIVABILITY & SOCIAL HEALTH, ECONOMIC HEALTH, HIGH
PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The City recognizes that the rapidly increasing cost of health care and health insurance is a
barrier to real wage growth, equitable health outcomes, and economic gains among many Fort
Collins residents. The City further recognizes that employer-sponsored health care and varying
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state regulations that are not consistent across the United States have resulted in the system
we have today.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports health care policy that provides single-payer, not-for-profit health care to all
residents.
2. Supports the portability of health care plans across employers and state lines.
3. Supports health care policies that end the practice in the United States of employers
being the primary source of health insurance for residents.
4. Supports policies that allocate costs to individuals and their families proportional to their
ability to pay.
HOUSING
NEIGHBORHOOD LIVABILITY & SOCIAL HEALTH
The City recognizes that the affordability and availability of quality housing is critical to a vibrant
and diverse community. The City’s Housing Strategic Plan establishes a housing-first
community vision that everyone has stable, healthy housing they can afford.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports enhancing funding for affordable housing throughout Colorado, including
expanding the state Low Income Housing Tax Credit program and providing funding for
affordable for-sale homes, but not increases to unrelated fees.
2. Supports legislation that would enable an affordable housing right of first refusal to
encourage local government and partner acquisition of multifamily properties for the
purpose of long-term affordable housing.
3. Supports increasing local governments’ ability to regulate, manage or generate
alternative sources of funding for affordable housing, including public-private
partnerships.
4. Supports maintaining stronger amendments to construction defect laws to promote the
construction of owner-occupied attached housing.
5. Supports creating an adequate supply of housing for all income levels and continued
public- and private-sector support for these efforts.
6. Supports exploring expansion of the Mobile Home Act to address rent pad stabilization,
transparency in utility billing, adequate maintenance of water and wastewater
infrastructure, access to safe drinking water, and other livability issues.
7. Supports continued funding and expansion of programs for eviction and foreclosure
prevention, including provision of free legal assistance and adopting a statewide right to
counsel for residents facing eviction or foreclosure.
8. Supports consideration of incentives and/or requirements to encourage land use reforms
that will increase housing supply statewide, particularly through eliminating zoning
barriers to accessible, healthy, affordable housing (e.g., increased density, accessory
dwelling units, conversion of existing buildings to housing).
9. Supports policies that intentionally link transportation funding and housing funding so
that investment is prioritized where there is policy alignment between multimodal
infrastructure and transit-supportive housing densities.
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10. Supports funding and regional support for housing-first approaches to homelessness
including housing coordination and placement, rapid rehousing and supportive services
(e.g., rental assistance, utility assistance, case management) to assist with housing
retention and stability.
HUMAN RESOURCES
HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The City of Fort Collins is committed to the health, safety and wellbeing of its employees. The
City works diligently to be efficient and responsible stewards of tax dollars, ensuring that
employee compensation and benefits are meaningful, equitable, market-based and competitive.
The City believes that its residents, through their elected representatives on City Council, are in
the best position to determine appropriate City employee compensation, benefits, appeal rights
related to disciplinary action and policies.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports the City’s ability and authority to make decisions on employment issues,
including collective bargaining, arbitration, compensation, appeal rights related to
disciplinary action and benefits to further an equitable work environment.
2. Supports the development and expansion to the City’s ability to determine how best to
manage employee health and benefit programs.
3. Supports current state funding levels for police officers’ and dispatchers’ death and
disability benefits made available by Fire & Police Pension Association of Colorado.
4. Opposes proposals that would allow employees and/or retirees with defined contribution
or deferred plans to move into defined benefit plans if there is a cost to local
government.
5. Opposes proposals that would limit the City’s ability to test job applicants for presence of
alcohol or controlled substances or employees at work for impairment due to
consumption of alcohol, marijuana, or other controlled substances or to set limits related
to such testing.
6. Opposes proposals that expand Colorado and federal anti-discrimination protections to
allow individuals other than employees to file claims against public entities for violations,
that expand the definition of “hostile work environment” beyond current state and federal
protections, or that waive a public entity’s sovereign immunity in an action for injuries
resulting from a discrimination or unfair employment practice claim brought pursuant to
Colorado anti-discrimination law.
7. Opposes proposals that require a municipality to collectively bargain with its employees
in conflict with a home rule municipality’s authority.
IMMIGRATION AND NATIONAL BORDER CONDITIONS
NEIGHBORHOOD LIVABILITY & SOCIAL HEALTH, SAFE COMMUNITY, HIGH
PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The City recognizes that federal issues pertaining to civil rights at the United States’ borders,
and immigration law more broadly, have wide impacts that can directly impact the day-to-day life
of Fort Collins residents. It can also impact those residents’ willingness and comfort with
engaging with local public safety agencies and other key service providers.
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Therefore, the City:
1. Supports the humane treatment of persons who are detained by Immigration Officials
and the rapid resolution of legal proceedings to determine their status.
2. Supports pathways to legal immigration into the United States that are sustainable in the
long term, including removing financial barriers and increasing access to legal services.
3. Supports regulations and laws that support the use of employment eligibility verification
by employers.
4. Supports the 2011 ICE memorandum on “sensitive locations” limiting its immigration
enforcement actions and arrests at the following locations so as to preserve the health,
safety and education of all residents:
a. Hospitals;
b. Schools and scholastic bus stops (preschools, primary schools, secondary
schools, post-secondary schools, colleges and universities, and other learning
institutions such as vocational or trade schools);
c. Churches, synagogues, mosques, or other institutions of worship, such as
buildings rented for the purpose of religious services;
d. The site of a funeral, wedding, or other public religious ceremony; and
e. Public demonstrations, such as a march, rally, or parade.
5. Supports regulations and laws that add wage and labor protection requirements for
workers currently excluded from minimum wages and overtime protections, breaks, and
mandatory rest days.
6. Supports de minimus exemptions to Verification of lawful presence CO ST § 24-76.5-
103 by adding a new section (3) (f) to the state law that exempts the City from following
the verification process for any particular local public benefit that is valued at less than
$500.00, or that is not provided directly to the beneficiary by the City.
7.6. Supports local control over how state and federal funding for healthcare,
affordable housing and food security is allocated to meet the needs of all residents and
their families regardless of immigration status.
INTEGRATED LAND USE, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
ECONOMIC HEALTH, NEIGHBORHOOD LIVABILITY & SOCIAL HEALTH
City Plan and the Transit Master Plan guide the City’s long-term decisions on land use and
transportation investments and regulations. Fort Collins uses tools such as land use and
building code, and well-established development review processes.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports requirements for comprehensive land use planning that organizes and directs
growth to achieve stated community vision, policies and goals.
2. Supports policies, standards or programs that require the analysis of public health,
sustainability and equity in land use planning and regulation.
3. Supports local governments’ ability to obtain financial compensation for additional work
of inspectors through fees or other means.
4. Opposes any unfunded state-mandated review, permitting or inspection requirements.
5. Supports local governments’ authority to determine zoning, development review, building
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and inspection standards, procedures and timelines.
6. Encourages regional cooperation in land use, transportation planning, utility and water
resource planning and fostering sustainable development. Supports intergovernmental
agreements between a municipality and a county to establish boundaries and
annexation of a GMA and prohibit any outside parties to annex said GMA.
7. Supports municipal discretion concerning the imposition of building and development
fees and requirements.
8. Supports retaining and/or increasing local authority related to the siting, design and
regulation of wireless telecommunication facilities, including both small cell and macro
sites.
9. Supports local adoption of building and other related codes, including addition of local
amendments needed to safeguard public health and safety by regulating building
construction, structural strength, sanitation, light, ventilation and energy conservation.
10. Supports local control and regulation of Building Department staff, including
qualifications of building inspectors performing plumbing and electrical inspections.
10.11. Opposes state mandates on the qualifications of inspection staff throughout
municipal services.
LICENSED SUBSTANCES
SAFE COMMUNITY
State and local municipalities address licensing and regulations regarding the cultivation, sale,
and use of tobacco, cannabis, and natural medicine and there are additional substances
considered every year (hemp intoxicants, Kratom, etc.) The City has and will have a continued
interest in managing these licensed substances in a manner that balances the needs and
desires of the community.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports communities’ ability to raise necessary funds to maintain public safety and
enforce licensed substances and related products possession laws.
2. Supports additional state licensed substances enforcement resources, especially for
field enforcement.
3. Opposes under-21 access to marijuana and natural medicine and supports increasing
penalties to those supplying to underage individuals.
4. Supports greater education and research on the harmful effects of high concentrate THC
and transparency in the spending of dedicated marijuana education dollars.
5. Supports local opt-in provisions regarding new permits and/or licenses or other licensed
substance related activities allowed under state law.
6. Supports further development of laws and regulations to stop the proliferation of gray-
and black-market licensed substances while coordinating with the federal level to help
address safety through research and legal banking, and to reduce conflict between
Colorado and federal laws.
7. Supports statewide efforts to enforce retail tobacco sales compliance as well as
prohibiting the sale of intoxicating hemp and THC products to minors.
8. Supports legislation that greatly reduces or eliminates the incidence of smoking and
vaping. Specific measures may include the elimination of flavored vaping cartridges,
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statewide retail licensing for tobacco and vaping products, and identical treatment of
vaping and e-cigarette products to traditional forms of tobacco.
MUNICIPAL COURT
SAFE COMMUNITY, HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The Fort Collins Municipal Court is responsible for administering the operations of the judicial
branch of City government according to the City Charter and ordinances adopted by City
Council. Cases adjudicated in Municipal Court include traffic violations, misdemeanors, civil
infractions and civil cases. Generally, cases are brought to Municipal Court by Fort Collins
Police Services, Colorado State University Police Department, Animal Control, other City
departments, and private residents.
Therefore, the City:
1. Opposes limitations on the authority of municipalities to enforce their own ordinances in
municipal courts and increased procedural requirements or limitations on municipal court
proceedings, such as limitations on bonding requirements related to municipal court
warrants and sentencing options, andoptions and supports elimination of requirements
impinging on municipal court authority and discretion.
2. Opposes the imposition of state surcharges on municipal court fines for the purpose of
funding state programs.
3. Opposes any unfunded mandates imposed on municipal courts by the state.
SUBSURFACE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: OIL AND GAS, DEEP GEOTHERMAL AND
CARBON STORAGE
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Fort Collins residents have expressed continuing concern about the human and environmental
impacts from local oil and gas development, particularly in relation to local air quality, public
health, and the protection of natural resources. With the Colorado Energy and Carbon
Management Commission (ECMC) now expanding its regulatory authority to include deep
geothermal operations and potential carbon storage in deep wells (Class VI wells), these
concerns are increasingly relevant to a broader range of subsurface resource management
activities. Additionally, community members have expressed concern over transported
emissions from oil and gas operations outside of City limits that contribute to local ozone
formation.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports local authority to regulate subsurface resource management activities,
including oil and gas operations, deep geothermal development and carbon storage in
deep wells. The City advocates for local government approvals to be a mandatory
component of permitting processes, ensure that site selection, operational plans and
other critical elements align with local standards. oil and gas operations as granted in
2019 through Senate Bill 19-181, which includes the ability to regulate the siting of new
development and surface impacts.
2. Supports scientific studies and enhanced monitoring tothat evaluate impacts of oil and
gas operations and other subsurface activities related to deep wells on human health,
the environment and property values.
3. Supports air pollution monitoring, emission characterization and modeling studies to
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better understand the contributions of the oil and gas industry to air pollution.
4.3. Supports the plugging, and reclamation and reclamation and ongoing
assessments of wells ensuring that wells no longer used or useful are returned to an
original or improved state following wells closure. This includes infrastructure
removal, site restoration, and the establishment of long-term monitoring protocols to
prevent future environmental risks of older, low- and non-producing oil and gas wells,
and continuing assessment of the condition of abandoned wells.
5.4. Supports the current formula allocation of State Severance Tax and Federal
Mineral Lease (FML) revenue to impacted jurisdictions and the expanding of funds to
include financial assurances that cover environmental remediation or other unforeseen
impacts of subsurface deep well activities jurisdictions so that they might address
impacts from resource extraction.
6.5. Supports collaboration with operators, state agencies and local governments on
oil and gas and other subsurface resource development within and adjacent to the City’s
Growth Management Area, and on City-owned properties outside of City limits.
7. Supports legislation that protects public health, safety, welfare, the environment and
wildlife resources in consideration of surface owners and mineral owner rights.
OPEN RECORDS AND DATA MANAGEMENT
HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The City is the collector and keeper of hundreds of datasets and recorded information and is
legally bound and responsible for responding to Open Record requests. The City supports
transparency and open data initiatives.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports clear requirements that allow for reasonable requests and timeframes to
provide information that is legally available.
2. Opposes mandates that include unrealistic timeframes and requests that require
additional staff time with no means to recover costs.
3. Supports cybersecurity efforts that protect the City, consumers and infrastructure.
4. Supports data privacy regulations prohibiting the sharing of residents’ data with federal
agencies without a court-authorized subpoena, warrant or other valid order.
PARKS, NATURAL AREAS, AND PUBLIC AMENITIES
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, CULTURE & RECREATION
The City is committed to providing the community with excellent natural areas, parks, recreation
facilities, trails, cultural centers and engaging programs. Residents and visitors enjoy improved
health, less crime, a higher quality of life and a greater sense of community because of the
quality natural areas, parks and recreation programs, and other public spaces.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports maintaining or enhancing funding for parks, trails, forestry, horticulture, natural
areas, cultural centers, and recreation services and facilities.
2. Supports local discretion to use Great Outdoors Colorado and other sources for funding
municipal government projects addressing local needs and priorities.
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3. Supports equal or greater funding levels of Great Outdoors Colorado grants awarded to
municipalities.
4. Supports maintaining or enhancing tax incentives to private landowners for voluntary
land conservation.
5. Supports protection of the Cache la Poudre River and local urban streams.
6. Supports programs and funding for equitable access to public space and services.
PUBLIC HEALTH
SAFE COMMUNITY, NEIGHBORHOOD LIVABILITY & SOCIAL HEALTH
The City of Fort Collins strives to be a healthy, livable city that is a welcoming and inclusive
community for all, including residents who may be experiencing the challenges of
homelessness, mental health issues, substance use disorders, depression and other
challenging life situations. The City also supports primary prevention strategies to reduce the
injuries and deaths associated with gun violence.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports maintaining or increasing the funds available through the state and federal
government for community-focused non-profits to provide human services and housing
support.
2. Supports providing communities with resources to address chronic homelessness,
supportive housing, mental health and substance use disorders, including tobacco,
alcohol and drug prevention programs.
3. Supports a standardized statewide approach to addressing homelessness.
4. Supports research and necessary funding related to the root causes and effects of gun
violence to better inform prevention strategies.
5. Supports research, funding and/or programs to address disparities in social
determinants of health (e.g., housing, income, educational attainment, access to
healthcare) to improve community-wide health outcomes, including addressing root
cause issues such as racism and exclusion.
6. Supports efforts to ensure the health and safety of domestic animals and appropriate
penalties for cases of abuse, cruelty and neglect.
6.7. Supports distributing funding awarded, both regionally and locally, from
national Opioid Abatement Settlements to support prevention, harm reduction,
treatment, recovery, supportive housing, and criminal diversion programs.
PUBLIC SAFETY
SAFE COMMUNITY
The Fort Collins City Council recognizes the critical importance of maintaining public safety,
providing a safe environment, and protecting the lives and property of the residents of Fort
Collins on a daily basis as well as through preparedness and resiliency planning efforts.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports greater protections to victims of crime, regardless of immigration status.
2. Supports the City’s right to use camera enforcement of traffic laws, to reduce operational
restrictions on the use of camera enforcement, and to increase the fines associated with
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violations.
3. Supports protocols and funding for shared, statewide emergency response
communications, including supporting Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority (LETA)
and other efforts to resolve 911 diversity (back-up/resilience) issues.
4. Opposes increased 911 provider tariffs without clear documentation of cost needs.
5. Opposes legislation and initiatives initiatives that have the potential to compromise
officer safety.
6. Supports minimum training criteria and professional mediator certification that formally
legitimizes the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
7. Opposes municipal liability for prisoners’ self-inflicted wounds while in police custody or
detention facilities.
8. Opposes efforts to undermine local control or enforcement of activities on public
property.
9. Supports a state adopted fire and building code, the code of choice being the
International Fire and Building Code, while allowing municipalities to adopt their own
codes and local amendments.
10. Opposes 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.
11. Opposes restricting any local jurisdiction from requiring the installation of fire sprinklers.
12. Supports the City’s ability to prohibit the use and sale of fireworks and allow counties
and fire districts to prohibit and otherwise control fireworks within City boundaries.
13. Supports efforts to reduce abuse and improper disposal of over-the-counter and
prescription drugs.
14. Supports exclusive digital communication networks for public safety personnel during
emergencies.
15. Supports the restoration of qualified immunity for police and other government officials.
16. Supports practical standards related to use of force that appropriately balance the rights
and safety of Fort Collins residents with the safety of first responders.
17. Supports increased reporting of crimes by refraining from inquiries about legal
immigration status unless such inquiry is pertinent to a crime; supports continuation of
non-restrictive U-Visa certification policies that allow victims of crime to access important
legal protections.
18. Supports continued use of body-worn cameras (BWCs), protections for public recordings
of police, and the maintenance and reporting of such data that does not compromise
police operations or public safety.
19. Supports statute change to allow the deactivation of BWCs when in a law enforcement
facility with active audio and video recording devices and clarify that law enforcement
personnel assigned to administrative duties are exempt from the requirement to wear a
BWC daily.
20. Supports the establishment of the City’s right to enforce municipal codes on City property that
may lie outside the City’s official geographic borders.
21. Opposes legislation offering further leniency for the possession and use of dangerous narcotics.
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23. Supports legislative action that deters the public sale, possession, and use of narcotics. (????)
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RECYCLING AND SOLID WASTE REDUCTION
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
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 applies Zero Waste
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 percentZero Waste by 2030.
Therefore, the City:
1. Encourages State and regional policies and practices that advance an integrated system
for , sustainable waste and materials management planning, management and tracking
such as and implementation policy, including but not limited to centralized data
collection requirements, local hauler licensing and initiatives to reach statewide diversion
targets.
2. Supports a regulatory authority role for local government to ensure the efficient
management of recyclable material and solid waste, including application of laws that
prescribe the use of county-funded disposal facilities for certain types of wastes, and
other local bans on landfill disposal for certain types of debris.
3. Encourages “buy recycled” or “environmentally preferable purchasing” policies for
government agency procurement.
4. Supports incentives and funding for programs that promote waste reduction, reuse and
recycling, and development of related infrastructure.
5. Supports continued or increased funding for programs to collect and monitor data on
trash volumes, rates of diversion from landfill disposal and economic impacts of
recycling.
6. Supports establishing a refundable deposit fee on beverage containers to increase
recovery rates and pay for recycling programs.
7. Supports state and regional economic tools for existing and new businesses that provide
end markets for recycled materials in support of a domestic, circular economy.
8. Supports incentives, and programs, and requirements for the commercial use of to
encourage the use of compost to expand, developing end markets for to help divert
organic material (e.g., food scraps and yard wastetrimmings.) from landfills, and
developing composting infrastructure.
9. Supports incentives and programs to develop end markets that support salvaging and
recycling of valuable materials from the for construction and demolition waste stream.
materials and other potentially recyclable materials.
10. Supports extended producer responsibility initiatives that fund recycling programs and
incentivize products to be designed for reuse, recycling or composting be made of less
toxic materials, while , and maintaining local control of recycling programs.
10.11. Opposes mixed waste processing for municipal solid waste and supports
utilizing waste-to-energy technology only if it isfor processing materials that are not
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recyclable or compostable.
RISK MANAGEMENT AND LIABILITY
HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
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. The City 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:
1. Supports improving administrative efficiency of the Division of Workers’ Compensation.
2. Opposes increased insurance premium costs to employers.
3. Opposes administrative burdens or taxes to self-insurance programs.
4. Supports limits to insurance claim litigation.
5. Opposes limiting the City’s options and ability to manage workers’ compensation claims,
including actions like removing existing offsets to workers’ compensation benefits or
limiting the City’s ability to designate treating physicians.
6. Opposes efforts to presumptively expand workers’ compensation coverage to illnesses
or injuries that are not work related.
7. Opposes efforts to reduce or weaken protections against liability through governmental
immunity or other statutory provisions.
SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT
ECONOMIC HEALTH, HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The City of Fort Collins actively supports small businesses throughout their stages of formation
and growth. Changing consumer habits and increased online competition threaten to disrupt the
recovery for small businesses.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports efforts to reduce the cost of food delivery for small businesses by managing
third-party delivery fees and encouraging statewide licensing of these service providers.
2.1. Supports efforts to enhance statewide funding for small business support,
including enhanced services to support new business formation owned by women,
minority, low-income, and veteran individuals.
TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT
TRANSPORTATION & MOBILITY
The City actively promotes transportation infrastructure that facilitates the safe and efficient
movement of people, goods and services regardless of mode. Infrastructure improvements will
support the Vision Zero plan and be in concert with land use development while being respectful
of community values and the environment.
Therefore, the City:
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1. Supports alternative methods of funding transportation infrastructure needs.
2. Supports funding the analysis and implementation of inter- and intra-regional transit
linkages, including future commuter rail connectivity.
3. Encourages flexibility in federal funding and regulations in order to better meet the needs
of small to medium-size communities.
4. Supports 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.
5. Supports funding for the build-out of Interstate 25 improvements.
6. Supports additional funding options and availability to increase safety in all modes of
travel.
7. Supports broadening the definition of the gasoline tax to a “fuel tax” that encompasses
other fuel options as they become more prevalent.
8. Opposes municipal reductions to the present HUFT 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.
9. Supports enhanced ability to implement railroad quiet zones in municipalities, further
options in pursuing various degrees of quiet zones, and an overall reduction in train horn
decibel and duration requirements.
10. Opposes divesting highway roads in urban areas from the state and making them the
sole responsibility of local jurisdictions without adequate compensation for ongoing
maintenance.
11. Supports safe operation of railroads through timely track inspections, joint training and
communication between railroad and emergency personnel, and the use of safe
equipment.
12. Supports local regulatory and design standard control of public roads, pedestrian paths
and bike lanes to address all modes of transportation.
12.13. Supports funding to provide asset management for transportation assets.
URBAN RENEWAL AND DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC HEALTH
The State of Colorado has empowered local authorities to use Urban Renewal Authorities
(URA) and Downtown Development Authorities (DDA) to encourage downtown revitalization
and the elimination of blight. The main funding tool for URAs and DDAs is Tax Increment
Financing (TIF) generated through property taxes. In its best intention, urban renewal and
downtown revitalization restores economic vitality and improves the safety of a designated area
with limited financial impact to other government jurisdictions.
Therefore, the City:
1. Opposes limitations on municipalities’ ability to utilize financing mechanisms such as
TIF.
2. Supports maintaining the ability of downtown development authorities to utilize the full
offering of tools and powers provided in the DDA Act.
3. Supports maintaining the ability of Urban Renewal Authorities to utilize the full offering of
tools and powers provided for in state statute.
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4. Supports legislative action to provide clarity, stability, and predictability to property
taxation formulas and policies”
3.5.
WATER, WASTEWATER, AND STORMWATER
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, SAFE COMMUNITY
The City operates a water utility, a wastewater utility and a stormwater utility through an
integrated management approach that recognizes the value and interconnectness of all water
systems. This approach ensures in a financially sound, reliable, safe and environmentally
responsible considerations that provide sustainable and resilient water access and usage for all,
now and into the future.manner. The availability of adequate water supplies is critical to the City
and is managed by the Water Supply and Demand Management Policy, the Water Efficiency
Plan, and other water-related codes, rules, regulations, plans and policies.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports expanding the authority delegated to the state to administer federally
mandated water, stormwater and wastewater environmental regulatory programs.
1.2. Supports protecting the integrity of Colorado’s prior appropriation doctrine to
protect the City’s water supplies and prevent injury to other water users.
3. Supports reasonable water quality regulations that use a science-based approach and
consider holistic solutions that are sustainable, feasible, and protect public health and
the environment.are cost-effective and can show identifiable benefits.
2.4. Supports reasonable regulations that establish accountability and responsibility
for generators of emerging contaminants, such as, buit not limited to per- and
polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), without placing the sole burden on passive receivers
of these pollutants.
5. Supports municipal flexibility to manage in-stream flows to preserve or improve the
natural environment while protecting the integrity of Colorado’s appropriation doctrine,
protecting the City’s water supplies and preventing injury to other water users.
6. Supports flexibility to promote resiliency from flooding while addressing life safety and
protection of private and public infrastructure on the Cache la Poudre river, it’s
watershed, and tributary waterways.
3.7. Supports collaboration, policy, and regulations that allow enhancement and
restoration of natural systems to achieve water quality objectives.
4.8. Supports financing for water conservation projects, such as turf conversions, and
supports new financing opportunities for these projects including grants, zero/low
interest loans, etc., with availability to all water districts and providers.
5.9. Supports funding for the recovery and treatment resilience of the Fort Collins
water supply, its watershed, and other waterways impacted by or subject to natural
disasters and human-caused events, including fires.
6.10. Supports enhanced municipal authority to protect and increase the flexibility and
resiliency of the City’s water supplies under Colorado’s appropriation doctrine, without
causing injury to other water users and without adversely affecting in-stream flows or the
natural environment. This includes potential bills related to treated water providers being
able to more easily share treated water supplies between their distribution systems.
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7.11. Supports reducing legal barriers and clarifying legal ambiguities related to water
reuse and greywater projects while protecting the integrity of Colorado’s appropriation
doctrine, protecting the City’s water supplies and preventing injury to other water users.
8.12. Supports streamlining of federal and state permitting requirements for water
development projects that increases coordination between permitting agencies, reduces
administrative and financial burdens on permit applicants, while still and ensuringe
adequaterobust and enforceable environmental protections.
9.13. Supports the enlargement of Halligan Reservoir as a common-sense, cost-
effective and environmentally-beneficial approach to meet Fort Collins Utilities’ future
water supply needs.
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CITY OF FORT COLLINS LEGISLATIVE CONTACTS
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE update to current committee and delete most other
contacts.
Name District/Title Email Phone
Councilmember Tricia Canonico, Chair District 3 tcanonico@fcgov.com 970-305-6296
Mayor Jeni Arndt Mayor jarndt@fcgov.com 970-413-3146
Councilmember Shirley Peel District 4 speel@fcgov.com 970-294-2575
Kelly DiMartino City Manager kdimartino@fcgov.com 970-416-2028
Carrie Daggett City Attorney cdaggett@fcgov.com 970-416-2463
Tyler Marr
Ginny Sawyer Legislative Staff tmarr@fcgov.com
gsawyer@fcgov.com
970-416-4205
970-416-2354
LEGISLATIVE STAFF LIAISON MEMBERS
Topic Area Name Title Email Phone
Affordable Housing and
Social Sustainability
Meaghan Overton
Beth Yonce
Housing Manager
Social Sustainability Director
moverton@fcgov.com
byonce@fcgov.com
970-416-2283
970-221-6752
Air Quality Honore Depew Climate Program Manager hdepew@fcgov.com 970-224-6143
Broadband Chad Crager Broadband Director ccreager@fcgov.com 970-221-6798
Cable Television
Franchise
Carson Hamlin Sr. Video Production Engineer chamlin@fcgov.com 970-221-6510
Childcare Adam Molzer Human Services Program Manager amolzer@fcgov.com 970-221-6757
Climate Honore Depew Climate Program Manager hdepew@fcgov.com 970-224-6143
Environmental
Protection
Honore Depew Climate Program Manager hdepew@fcgov.com 970-224-6143
Elections, Liquor and
Marijuana Licensing
Anissa Hollingshead City Clerk ahollingshead@fcgov.com 970-426-2995
Energy Gretchen Stanford Deputy Utilities Director, Customer
Connections
gstanford@fcgov.com 970-416-2627
Finance Travis Storin Chief Financial Officer tstorin@fcgov.com 970-221-6795
Economic Health SeonAh Kendall Economic Health Director skendall@fcgov.com 970-221-6324
Fire Protection and
HAZMAT Management
Derek Bergsten Poudre Fire Authority Chief derek.bergsten@poudre-fire.org 970 566-7274
Human Resources Teresa Roche Chief Human Resources Officer troche@fcgov.com 970-221-6826
Natural Areas, Open
Lands and Cache la
Poudre River Issues
Katie Donahue Natural Areas Director kdonahue@fcgov.com 970-416-8067
Building Services Marcus Coldiron Chief Building Official mcoldiron@fcgov.com 970-416-2324
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Parks and Recreation Mike Calhoon
LeAnn Williams
Director of Parks
Director of Recreation
mcalhoon@fcgov.com
lewilliams@fcgov.com
970-416-2079
Planning and Land Use Paul Sizemore
Clay Frickey
Community Development and
Neighborhood Services Director
Planning Manager
psizemore@fcgov.com
cfrickey@fcgov.com
970-224-6140
970-416-2625
Public Safety Greg Yeager Deputy Chief of Police gyeager@fcgov.com 970-416-2185
Recycling and Solid
Waste Reduction
Honore Depew Climate Program Manager hdepew@fcgov.com 970-224-6143
Risk Management Claire Goodwin Safety, Security and Risk
Management Director
cgoodwin@fcgov.com 970-221-6774
Stormwater Andrew Gingerich Water Field Operations Director agingerich@fcgov.com 970-221-6232
Transportation Drew Brooks Planning Development and
Transportation Deputy Director
dbrooks@fcgov.com 970-221-6511
Utilities Customer
Connections and Water
Conservation
Gretchen Stanford Deputy Utilities Director, Customer
Connections
gstanford@fcgov.com 970-416-2627
Water Supply and
Quality
Jason Graham Director of Water Utilities jgraham@fcgov.com 970-221-6921
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2025-2026 LEGISLATIVE POLICY AGENDA
ADOPTED NOVEMBER 2024
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 3
CITY OF FORT COLLINS LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE ................................ 3
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW PROCESS .................................................................................. 4
HOME RULE AND LOCAL CONTROL ................................................................................... 5
ACCESSIBILITY - ONLINE AND PUBLIC MEETINGS ........................................................... 5
AIR QUALITY ......................................................................................................................... 6
BEER AND LIQUOR ............................................................................................................... 6
BROADBAND AND CABLE .................................................................................................... 6
CHILDCARE ........................................................................................................................... 7
CLIMATE ................................................................................................................................ 8
ELECTIONS ........................................................................................................................... 8
ENERGY ................................................................................................................................. 8
FINANCE ................................................................................................................................ 9
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT .........................................................................10
HEALTH CARE ......................................................................................................................10
HOUSING ..............................................................................................................................10
HUMAN RESOURCES ..........................................................................................................11
IMMIGRATION AND NATIONAL BORDER CONDITIONS ....................................................12
INTEGRATED LAND USE, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
..............................................................................................................................................13
LICENSED SUBSTANCES ....................................................................................................13
MUNICIPAL COURT ..............................................................................................................14
OIL AND GAS ........................................................................................................................15
OPEN RECORDS AND DATA MANAGEMENT .....................................................................15
PARKS, NATURAL AREAS, AND PUBLIC AMENITIES ........................................................16
PUBLIC HEALTH ...................................................................................................................16
PUBLIC SAFETY ...................................................................................................................17
RECYCLING AND SOLID WASTE REDUCTION ..................................................................18
RISK MANAGEMENT AND LIABILITY ..................................................................................19
SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT ..............................................................................................19
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TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT ......................................................................................19
URBAN RENEWAL AND DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT .....................................................20
WATER, WASTEWATER, AND STORMWATER ...................................................................21
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE ...................................................................................22
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INTRODUCTION
Fort Collins is a community of approximately 175,000 residents. Incorporated in 1873, it 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 provides exceptional service for an exceptional community and works toward its vision
of fostering a thriving and engaged community through its operational excellence and culture of
innovation. City leaders seek creative, data-informed solutions to issues facing Fort Collins and
are often willing to leverage emerging technologies.
The Fort Collins City Council annually adopts a Policy Agenda ahead of the upcoming Colorado
General Assembly session for the purpose of guiding legislators and staff in supporting
community goals.
The Policy Agenda is a broad set of policy statements meant to convey positions on issues that
affect the community’s quality of life and governance. It is structured to address areas of local
concern and to also reflect the strategic planning that guides the City’s organizational resource
allocation and decision-making.
Fort Collins welcomes opportunities to work in partnership to leverage additional resources and
participate in regional dialogue to achieve shared outcomes.
The City has identified seven outcome areas to ensure appropriate and effective resource
allocation supporting the community’s priorities:
Culture & Recreation
Economic Health
Environmental Health
High Performing Government
Neighborhood & Community Vitality
Safe Community
Transportation & Mobility
The Policy Agenda identifies this alignment as it 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 Councilmembers that
reviews and reacts to proposed legislation on behalf of City Council and the City.
In taking a position on bills, the LRC interprets and applies the various policies that are included
in the Legislative Policy Agenda.
Councilmembers presently serving on the Legislative Review Committee are:
Councilmember Tricia Canonico, Chair
Councilmember Kelly Ohlson
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Councilmember Julie Pignataro
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW PROCESS
Thee City of Fort Collins relies heavily on the Legislative Policy Agenda, the Colorado Municipal
League, and the Colorado Communities for Climate Action organizations for the majority of bill
tracking and identification.
The City currently maintains memberships with the Colorado Municipal League (CML) and
Colorado Communities for Climate Action (CC4CA); both groups maintain a full-time presence
at the capitol and engage in bill identification and advocacy consistent with their own adopted
policy agendas. The City influences both groups’ policy agendas and, while not perfectly
consistent with the City’s, both generally advance and protect the City’s interests.
Bills introduced in the Colorado General Assembly or United States Congress and federal, state
or county regulations or rule-makings are reviewed by City staff. Bills, regulations and rules that
are identified as having a potential impact on the City will be brought to the LRC for discussion.
If the LRC adopts a position, staff will convey that information to the appropriate state or federal
representative and advocate for the adopted position.
If staff or Councilmembers are contacted regarding letters of support or opposition from CML,
CC4CA or representatives, staff will ensure alignment with the LPA and provide a letter signed
by the Mayor. If staff or Councilmembers are contacted by lobbyists or other interest groups with
requests for letters of support or opposition, no action will be taken unless directed by the LRC.
Due to the time-sensitive nature of the General Assembly, if a bill’s subject matter is addressed
in this Policy Agenda, staff will proactively work with state and federal representatives to
advance the City’s position as expressed in this LPA and other Council-adopted plans and
policies. Staff will provide regular updates to the LRC and the full City Council regarding bills of
consequence to the City and will consult with the LRC regarding bills for which direction under
the adopted policy is unclear.
Staff liaisons support the LRC by contributing expertise in various areas of municipal service.
The City Attorney’s Office also reviews selected bills and may provide confidential legal
analysis. 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 maintains membership with the
Colorado Association of Municipal Utilities (CAMU), which represents 29 municipal utilities
throughout the state on utility issues, and Colorado Communities for Climate Action (CC4CA),
which represents municipalities on climate issues. In addition, Fort Collins actively participates
in various trade organizations that represent specific areas of interest to City operations.
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2024 LEGISLATIVE POLICY STATEMENTS
HOME RULE AND LOCAL CONTROL
In order to consider and manage local conditions and desires, community issues and needs
should be addressed locally. For this reason, home rule authority is of utmost importance to the
City of Fort Collins. 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. The City also understands the cumulative effect of these and other
activities has statewide ramifications that may call for statewide regulation to effectively manage
such things as overall growth and development in the state, water, traffic congestion in major
transportation corridors and environmental quality.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports strengthening and preserving home rule authority of municipal governments.
2. Opposes state or federal intervention in matters of local concern or matters that
unnecessarily or adversely affect the City’s ability to manage and operate pursuant to its
home rule authority.
3. Opposes changes that increase (and supports changes that lessen) the burdens and
limits on municipalities associated with public or other government records, public
meetings and establishment of ethics standards and procedures, operation of municipal
courts, and other matters of municipal operations or authority including added cost
burdens.
4. Supports enabling cities to choose the provision of services through private enterprise in
a manner that fosters cost effective, sustainable, quality services.
5. Supports local control of the awarding of contracts and the accountability of local officials
for those actions.
6. Opposes unfunded mandates that increase the complexity and cost of services.
7. Supports collaborative regional efforts for the benefit of participating communities.
ACCESSIBILITY – ONLINE AND PUBLIC MEETINGS
HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The City recognizes the importance of making digital content and public meetings accessible for
all. The City is committed to advancing statewide efforts to improve accessibility while believing
that such efforts must be practical and achievable for impacted entities.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports clear definitions for public meetings requiring online accessibility.
2. Supports unified federal standards for web and online accessibility requirements and
reasonable timelines to comply after standards and rules are made known, at either the
state or federal level.
3. Supports ensuring municipalities’ ability to engage vendors to ensure compliance with
technology accessibility requirements.
4. Supports allowing local governments to exempt archived documents and allow “safe
harbor” while working toward compliance.
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AIR QUALITY
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
The City is committed to protecting human health and the environment through continuous
improvements in air quality. This involves a comprehensive approach of measuring, mitigating
pollutants and adapting to air quality challenges.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports programs and policies that improve public health and indoor and outdoor air
quality, including attainment of National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone.
2. Supports local government authority to improve indoor and outdoor air quality beyond
minimum state or federal requirements.
3. Supports implementation of expanded air quality monitoring programs, particularly in
disproportionately impacted communities
4. Supports adequate authority and resource at all levels of government to enforce air
quality regulations, including increased penalties for repeat violators.
5. Supports development and implementation of targeted ozone reduction strategies,
including seasonal emission budgets for major polluters.
6. Supports measures to reduce emissions from industrial sources, regional oil and gas
operations and gas-powered vehicles and equipment, particularly in non-attainment
areas.
7. Supports strengthening fuel efficiency standards for internal combustion engine vehicles,
and policies that promote their replacement with electric vehicles and the development
of charging infrastructure.
8. Supports policies that address both air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions
simultaneously, recognizing their interconnected nature and impacts.
BEER AND LIQUOR
SAFE COMMUNITY
The City issues and renews liquor licenses, enforces license rules, and holds hearings for liquor
license violations.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports greater local licensing final authority for all types of licensing and related fees
(New, Transfers, Modifications, and Manager Registration.)
2. Supports a sharing of accountability of serving violations between license holder and
individual server or store clerk.
3. Supports permanent ability for licensees to service alcohol on a temporary/permanent
basis in non-contiguous areas.
BROADBAND AND CABLE
ECONOMIC HEALTH
Reliable, high-speed and affordable access to broadband and cable programming throughout
the community remains a priority and a long-term goal for the City to ensure economic vitality
and allow equal access for all residents and businesses.
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Therefore, the City:
1. Supports maintaining local franchising authority to preserve local governments’ ability to
negotiate in the public interest for cable channel space; institutional networks; and
public, educational and governmental (PEG) programming; and to charge franchise and
PEG fees to support local programming and compensate for the use of rights-of-way.
2. Supports allowing communities to offer and/or partner to offer high-speed internet, Wi-Fi
and other enhanced telecommunication services to residents, schools, academic
institutions and businesses.
3. Opposes restrictions on providing telecommunication services within City-owned
facilities and on City property, and related restrictions on the manner in which such
services may be financed, funded or structured.
4. Opposes infringement on municipalities’ ability to compete in the broadband
marketplace.
5. Opposes right-of-way use contrary to existing aesthetic policies and practices, including
the addition of any above-ground cabling.
6. Supports revisions to the Colorado Open Meetings Law to allow local jurisdictions that
provide or arrange for telecommunications services or facilities to authorize executive
sessions for discussion of matters pertaining to competition in the provision of
telecommunication services and facilities (such as matters subject to negotiation,
strategic planning, pricing, sales and marketing, and development planning), along with
any other conforming statutory changes.
7. Supports prioritizing state and federal broadband grants and funding to municipal and
co-op broadband operations.
CHILDCARE
ECONOMIC HEALTH, NEIGHBORHOOD & COMMUNITY VITALITY
The City of Fort Collins recognizes the criticality of quality, affordable and accessible childcare
for families and businesses in the community. The City’s role is to help reduce barriers, increase
capacity, leverage assets, identify and respond to childcare needs, and lead by example as an
employer.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports programs and policies that improve the severe shortage of childcare openings
with licensed providers, including programs and incentives that promote the expansion
of existing childcare centers and development of new centers, particularly those serving
low-income families and offering extended hours of operation.
2. Supports regulations that streamline requirements and reduce the complexity and cost of
childcare services, including licensing and educational requirements, when those
mandates are not clearly benefiting the health and safety of children and the community.
3. Supports increased funding for early childhood education.
4. Supports workforce development in the early care and education field, including
scholarships, training programs and simplified credentialing processes.
5. Supports increased and sustainable public subsidization of childcare costs, including
proposals to support living wages for providers and those that reduce the cost burden on
families.
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CLIMATE
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
In response to the climate emergency, Fort Collins has adopted aggressive greenhouse gas
(GHG) emission reduction goals and supports policies and legislation to help achieve the goals
and outcomes of, Our Climate Future, including commitments to equity and resilience. . Making
communities more resilient to disaster and the effects of a changing climate has become
more important to Colorado communities in recent years as extreme heat and natural
disasters such as wildfires and flooding have caused significant human health issues, loss of
life, and property loss.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports policies that put equity at the center of decision-making to consider systemic
inequities in energy and climate impacts, based on race or socioeconomic status, to
justly transition and grow a clean energy future.
2. Supports (GHG) emission reduction strategies at all levels of government, including
setting reduction targets, climate planning, and mechanisms for data collection to inform
GHG inventories.
3. Supports economic, behavioral, and regulatory mechanisms to reduce emissions and
enhance resilience in energy, waste reduction, transportation, and water sectors.
4. Supports resilience and adaptation planning policies for wildfire, extreme heat, flooding,
and other events related to human-caused climate disruption.
5. Supports protection of the Colorado self-audit law.
6. Supports policies promoting emerging methods of effective atmospheric carbon
reduction through proven means.
7. Supports policies that influence investment decisions of public sector resources to
reduce GHG emissions and increase community resilience.
ELECTIONS
HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The City of Fort Collins conducts municipal elections and special elections as required by the
citizen (or Council) initiative process. The City is committed to conducting a clear, legal and
trustworthy elections process.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports all efforts that assist the City in conducting fair and transparent election
processes according to the City’s adopted procedures.
2. Supports process improvements that encourage voter participation.
3. Supports additional mechanisms to prevent election tampering through increased
cybersecurity around election data and the election processes.
ENERGY
ECONOMIC HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Through its municipally owned electric utility, the City is committed to providing affordable,
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reliable and clean energy services to residents and businesses, as described in the Our Climate
Future plan. Energy issues extend beyond electricity to also encompass the community’s use of
natural gas and petroleum.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports efforts that promote energy affordability in general for residents, businesses
and institutions and specifically for households with high energy bill burdens.
2. Supports efforts that promote safety in the generation, transmission and distribution of
energy.
3. Supports efforts and incentives that promote energy efficiency, conservation, distributed
energy resources, electrification and grid flexibility.
4. Supports opportunities for local economic activities related to energy efficiency, clean
energy production and utility operations.
5. Supports initiatives to reduce or eliminate natural gas and petroleum use via beneficial
electrification for thermal and transportation needs.
6. Supports initiatives that reduce barriers to coordinated integrated planning for energy
supply and demands.
7. Supports state and federal funding for resilience efforts to mitigate potential energy- and
climate-related disruptions.
8. Supports implementation of the state’s Clean Energy Plans to reduce emissions from
electricity statewide while considering reliability, affordability and regulatory roles.
9. Opposes attempts to prevent or inhibit provision of municipal electric service in newly
annexed areas.
10. Supports smart grid technology adoption and grid modernization.
11. Supports minimizing the environmental impacts of energy production, reducing fossil fuel
generated electricity and eliminating the use of coal.
12. Supports efforts that promote the development of regional electricity markets.
13. Supports the local determination of electric rates and distributed resources credits that
balance the impacts to participants and non-participants to create a robust local
renewable generation system.
FINANCE
ECONOMIC HEALTH, HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
Strong fiscal planning, prudent debt management and investment policies, 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:
1. Supports expanding municipal authority to establish alternative funding mechanisms,
including financing tools such as public improvement fees (PIF) and certificates of
participation (COP).
2. Supports increased funding for K-12 and higher education, specifically Colorado State
University and Front Range Community College.
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3. Encourages the equitable treatment and continued simplification of sales and use taxes
to residents and corporations residing or doing business in Colorado by limiting
exemptions.
4. Opposes efforts that inhibit the City’s ability and authority to increase its revenue base
(i.e., sales, use and property taxes).
5. Supports protections that do not unnecessarily restrict the investments of government
entities in instrumentation nor in custodial relationships with banks or credit unions..
6. Supports programs that provide economic assistance to organizations and individuals
impacted by emergencies.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
SAFE COMMUNITY, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
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:
1. Supports strengthening the enforcement of hazardous materials regulations.
2. Supports increasing diversion of hazardous waste from landfills.
3. Supports local governments’ ability and authority to review and approve locations of
facilities that use or store hazardous materials or hazardous waste.
HEALTH CARE
NEIGHBORHOOD & COMMUNITY VITALITY, ECONOMIC HEALTH, HIGH PERFORMING
GOVERNMENT
The City recognizes that the rapidly increasing cost of health care and health insurance is a
barrier to real wage growth, equitable health outcomes, and economic gains among many Fort
Collins residents. The City further recognizes that employer-sponsored health care and varying
state regulations that are not consistent across the United States have resulted in the system
we have today.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports health care policy that provides single-payer, not-for-profit health care to all
residents.
2. Supports the portability of health care plans across employers and state lines.
3. Supports health care policies that end the practice in the United States of employers
being the primary source of health insurance for residents.
4. Supports policies that allocate costs to individuals and their families proportional to their
ability to pay.
HOUSING
NEIGHBORHOOD & COMMUNITY VITALITY
The City recognizes that the affordability and availability of quality housing is critical to a vibrant
and diverse community. The City’s Housing Strategic Plan establishes a housing-first
community vision that everyone has stable, healthy housing they can afford.
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Therefore, the City:
1. Supports enhancing funding for affordable housing throughout Colorado, including
expanding the state Low Income Housing Tax Credit program and providing funding for
affordable for-sale homes, but not increases to unrelated fees.
2. Supports legislation that would enable an affordable housing right of first refusal to
encourage local government and partner acquisition of multifamily properties for the
purpose of long-term affordable housing.
3. Supports increasing local governments’ ability to regulate, manage or generate
alternative sources of funding for affordable housing, including public-private
partnerships.
4. Supports stronger amendments to construction defect laws to promote the construction
of owner-occupied attached housing.
5. Supports creating an adequate supply of housing for all income levels and continued
public- and private-sector support for these efforts.
6. Supports exploring expansion of the Mobile Home Act to address rent pad stabilization,
transparency in utility billing, adequate maintenance of water and wastewater
infrastructure, access to safe drinking water, and other livability issues.
7. Supports continued funding and expansion of programs for eviction and foreclosure
prevention, including adopting a statewide right to counsel for residents facing eviction or
foreclosure.
8. Supports consideration of incentives and/or requirements to encourage land use reforms
that will increase housing supply statewide, particularly through eliminating zoning
barriers to accessible, healthy, affordable housing (e.g., increased density, accessory
dwelling units, conversion of existing buildings to housing).
9. Supports policies that intentionally link transportation funding and housing funding so
that investment is prioritized where there is policy alignment between multimodal
infrastructure and transit-supportive housing densities.
10. Supports funding and regional support for housing-first approaches to homelessness
including housing coordination and placement, rapid rehousing and supportive services
(e.g., rental assistance, utility assistance, case management) to assist with housing
retention and stability.
HUMAN RESOURCES
HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The City of Fort Collins is committed to the health, safety and wellbeing of its employees. The
City works diligently to be efficient and responsible stewards of tax dollars, ensuring that
employee compensation and benefits are meaningful, equitable, market-based and competitive.
The City believes that its residents, through their elected representatives on City Council, are in
the best position to determine appropriate City employee compensation, benefits, appeal rights
related to disciplinary action and policies.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports the City’s ability and authority to make decisions on employment issues,
including collective bargaining, arbitration, compensation, appeal rights related to
disciplinary action and benefits to further an equitable work environment.
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2. Supports the development and expansion to the City’s ability to determine how best to
manage employee health and benefit programs.
3. Supports current state funding levels for police officers’ and dispatchers’ death and
disability benefits made available by Fire & Police Pension Association of Colorado.
4. Opposes proposals that would allow employees and/or retirees with defined contribution
or deferred plans to move into defined benefit plans if there is a cost to local
government.
5. Opposes proposals that would limit the City’s ability to test job applicants for presence of
alcohol or controlled substances or employees at work for impairment due to
consumption of alcohol, marijuana, or other controlled substances or to set limits related
to such testing.
6. Opposes proposals that expand Colorado and federal anti-discrimination protections to
allow individuals other than employees to file claims against public entities for violations,
that expand the definition of “hostile work environment” beyond current state and federal
protections, or that waive a public entity’s sovereign immunity in an action for injuries
resulting from a discrimination or unfair employment practice claim brought pursuant to
Colorado anti-discrimination law.
7. Opposes proposals that require a municipality to collectively bargain with its employees
in conflict with a home rule municipality’s authority.
IMMIGRATION AND NATIONAL BORDER CONDITIONS
NEIGHBORHOOD & COMMUNITY VITALITY, SAFE COMMUNITY, HIGH PERFORMING
GOVERNMENT
The City recognizes that federal issues pertaining to civil rights at the United States’ borders,
and immigration law more broadly, have wide impacts that can directly impact the day-to-day life
of Fort Collins residents. It can also impact those residents’ willingness and comfort with
engaging with local public safety agencies and other key service providers.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports the humane treatment of persons who are detained by Immigration Officials
and the rapid resolution of legal proceedings to determine their status.
2. Supports pathways to legal immigration into the United States that are sustainable in the
long term, including removing financial barriers and increasing access to legal services.
3. Supports regulations and laws that support the use of employment eligibility verification
by employers.
4. Supports the 2011 ICE memorandum on “sensitive locations” limiting its immigration
enforcement actions and arrests at the following locations so as to preserve the health,
safety and education of all residents:
a. Hospitals;
b. Schools and scholastic bus stops (preschools, primary schools, secondary
schools, post-secondary schools, colleges and universities, and other learning
institutions such as vocational or trade schools);
c. Churches, synagogues, mosques, or other institutions of worship, such as
buildings rented for the purpose of religious services;
d. The site of a funeral, wedding, or other public religious ceremony; and
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e. Public demonstrations, such as a march, rally, or parade.
5. Supports regulations and laws that add wage and labor protection requirements for
workers currently excluded from minimum wages and overtime protections, breaks, and
mandatory rest days.
6. Supports local control over how state and federal funding for healthcare, affordable
housing and food security is allocated to meet the needs of all residents and their
families regardless of immigration status.
INTEGRATED LAND USE, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
ECONOMIC HEALTH, NEIGHBORHOOD & COMMUNITY VITALITY
City Plan and the Transit Master Plan guide the City’s long-term decisions on land use and
transportation investments and regulations. Fort Collins uses tools such as land use and
building code, and well-established development review processes.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports requirements for comprehensive land use planning that organizes and directs
growth to achieve stated community vision, policies and goals.
2. Supports policies, standards or programs that require the analysis of public health,
sustainability and equity in land use planning and regulation.
3. Supports local governments’ ability to obtain financial compensation for additional work
of inspectors through fees or other means.
4. Opposes any unfunded state-mandated review, permitting or inspection requirements.
5. Supports local governments’ authority to determine zoning, development review, building
and inspection standards, procedures and timelines.
6. Encourages regional cooperation in land use, transportation planning, utility and water
resource planning and fostering sustainable development. Supports intergovernmental
agreements between a municipality and a county to establish boundaries and
annexation of a GMA and prohibit any outside parties to annex said GMA.
7. Supports municipal discretion concerning the imposition of building and development
fees and requirements.
8. Supports retaining and/or increasing local authority related to the siting, design and
regulation of wireless telecommunication facilities, including both small cell and macro
sites.
9. Supports local adoption of building and other related codes, including addition of local
amendments needed to safeguard public health and safety by regulating building
construction, structural strength, sanitation, light, ventilation and energy conservation.
10. Supports local control and regulation of Building Department staff, including
qualifications of building inspectors performing plumbing and electrical inspections.
11. Opposes state mandates on the qualifications of inspection staff throughout municipal
services.
LICENSED SUBSTANCES
SAFE COMMUNITY
State and local municipalities address licensing and regulations regarding the cultivation, sale,
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and use of tobacco, cannabis, and natural medicine and there are additional substances
considered every year (hemp intoxicants, Kratom, etc.) The City has and will have a continued
interest in managing these licensed substances in a manner that balances the needs and
desires of the community.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports communities’ ability to raise necessary funds to maintain public safety and
enforce licensed substances and related products possession laws.
2. Supports additional state licensed substances enforcement resources, especially for
field enforcement.
3. Opposes under-21 access to marijuana and natural medicine and supports increasing
penalties to those supplying to underage individuals.
4. Supports greater education and research on the harmful effects of high concentrate THC
and transparency in the spending of dedicated marijuana education dollars.
5. Supports local opt-in provisions regarding new permits and/or licenses or other licensed
substance related activities allowed under state law.
6. Supports further development of laws and regulations to stop the proliferation of gray-
and black-market licensed substances while coordinating with the federal level to help
address safety through research and legal banking, and to reduce conflict between
Colorado and federal laws.
7. Supports statewide efforts to enforce retail tobacco sales compliance as well as
prohibiting the sale of intoxicating hemp and THC products to minors.
8. Supports legislation that greatly reduces or eliminates the incidence of smoking and
vaping. Specific measures may include the elimination of flavored vaping cartridges,
statewide retail licensing for tobacco and vaping products, and identical treatment of
vaping and e-cigarette products to traditional forms of tobacco.
MUNICIPAL COURT
SAFE COMMUNITY, HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The Fort Collins Municipal Court is responsible for administering the operations of the judicial
branch of City government according to the City Charter and ordinances adopted by City
Council. Cases adjudicated in Municipal Court include traffic violations, misdemeanors, civil
infractions and civil cases. Generally, cases are brought to Municipal Court by Fort Collins
Police Services, Colorado State University Police Department, Animal Control, other City
departments, and private residents.
Therefore, the City:
1. Opposes limitations on the authority of municipalities to enforce their own ordinances in
municipal courts and increased procedural requirements or limitations on municipal court
proceedings, such as limitations on bonding requirements related to municipal court
warrants and sentencing options and supports elimination of requirements impinging on
municipal court authority and discretion.
2. Opposes the imposition of state surcharges on municipal court fines for the purpose of
funding state programs.
3. Opposes any unfunded mandates imposed on municipal courts by the state.
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SUBSURFACE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: OIL AND GAS, DEEP GEOTHERMAL AND
CARBON STORAGE
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Fort Collins residents have expressed continuing concern about the human and environmental
impacts from oil and gas development, particularly in relation to local air quality, public
health, and the protection of natural resources. With the Colorado Energy and Carbon
Management Commission (ECMC) now expanding its regulatory authority to include deep
geothermal operations and potential carbon storage in deep wells (Class VI wells), these
concerns are increasingly relevant to a broader range of subsurface resource management
activities
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports local authority to regulate subsurface resource management activities,
including oil and gas operations, deep geothermal development and carbon storage in
deep wells. The City advocates for local government approvals to be a mandatory
component of permitting processes, ensure that site selection, operational plans and
other critical elements align with local standards.
2. Supports scientific studies and enhanced monitoring toevaluate impacts of oil and gas
operations and other subsurface activities related to deep wells on human health, the
environment and property values.
3. Supports the plugging,reclamation and reclamation and ongoing assessments of wells
ensuring that wells no longer used or useful are returned to an original or improved
state following wells closure. This includes infrastructure removal, site restoration,
and the establishment of long-term monitoring protocols to prevent future
environmental risks
4. Supports the current allocation of State Severance Tax and Federal Mineral Lease
(FML) revenue to impacted jurisdictions and the expanding of funds to include
financial assurances that cover environmental remediation or other unforeseen
impacts of subsurface deep well activities
5. Supports collaboration with operators, state agencies and local governments on oil and
gas and other subsurface resource development within and adjacent to the City’s
Growth Management Area, and on City-owned properties outside of City limits.
OPEN RECORDS AND DATA MANAGEMENT
HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The City is the collector and keeper of hundreds of datasets and recorded information and is
legally bound and responsible for responding to Open Record requests. The City supports
transparency and open data initiatives.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports clear requirements that allow for reasonable requests and timeframes to
provide information that is legally available.
2. Opposes mandates that include unrealistic timeframes and requests that require
additional staff time with no means to recover costs.
3. Supports cybersecurity efforts that protect the City, consumers and infrastructure.
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4. Supports data privacy regulations prohibiting the sharing of residents’ data with federal
agencies without a court-authorized subpoena, warrant or other valid order.
PARKS, NATURAL AREAS, AND PUBLIC AMENITIES
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, CULTURE & RECREATION
The City is committed to providing the community with excellent natural areas, parks, recreation
facilities, trails, cultural centers and engaging programs. Residents and visitors enjoy improved
health, less crime, a higher quality of life and a greater sense of community because of the
quality natural areas, parks and recreation programs, and other public spaces.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports maintaining or enhancing funding for parks, trails, forestry, horticulture, natural
areas, cultural centers, and recreation services and facilities.
2. Supports local discretion to use Great Outdoors Colorado and other sources for funding
municipal government projects addressing local needs and priorities.
3. Supports equal or greater funding levels of Great Outdoors Colorado grants awarded to
municipalities.
4. Supports maintaining or enhancing tax incentives to private landowners for voluntary
land conservation.
5. Supports protection of the Cache la Poudre River and local urban streams.
6. Supports programs and funding for equitable access to public space and services.
PUBLIC HEALTH
SAFE COMMUNITY, NEIGHBORHOOD & COMMUNITY VITALITY
The City of Fort Collins strives to be a healthy, livable city that is a welcoming and inclusive
community for all, including residents who may be experiencing the challenges of
homelessness, mental health issues, substance use disorders, depression and other
challenging life situations. The City also supports primary prevention strategies to reduce the
injuries and deaths associated with gun violence.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports maintaining or increasing the funds available through the state and federal
government for community-focused non-profits to provide human services and housing
support.
2. Supports providing communities with resources to address chronic homelessness,
supportive housing, mental health and substance use disorders, including tobacco,
alcohol and drug prevention programs.
3. Supports a standardized statewide approach to addressing homelessness.
4. Supports research and necessary funding related to the root causes and effects of gun
violence to better inform prevention strategies.
5. Supports research, funding and/or programs to address disparities in social
determinants of health (e.g., housing, income, educational attainment, access to
healthcare) to improve community-wide health outcomes, including addressing root
cause issues such as racism and exclusion.
6. Supports efforts to ensure the health and safety of domestic animals and appropriate
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penalties for cases of abuse, cruelty and neglect.
7. Supports distributing funding awarded, both regionally and locally, from national Opioid
Abatement Settlements to support prevention, harm reduction, treatment, recovery,
supportive housing, and criminal diversion programs.
PUBLIC SAFETY
SAFE COMMUNITY
The Fort Collins City Council recognizes the critical importance of maintaining public safety,
providing a safe environment, and protecting the lives and property of the residents of Fort
Collins on a daily basis as well as through preparedness and resiliency planning efforts.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports greater protections to victims of crime, regardless of immigration status.
2. Supports the City’s right to use camera enforcement of laws, to reduce operational
restrictions on the use of camera enforcement, and to increase the fines associated with
violations.
3. Supports protocols and funding for shared, statewide emergency response
communications, including supporting Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority (LETA)
and other efforts to resolve 911 diversity (back-up/resilience) issues.
4. Opposes increased 911 provider tariffs without clear documentation of cost needs.
5. Opposes legislation and initiatives that have the potential to compromise officer safety.
6. Supports minimum training criteria and professional mediator certification that formally
legitimizes the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
7. Opposes municipal liability for prisoners’ self-inflicted wounds while in police custody or
detention facilities.
8. Opposes efforts to undermine local control or enforcement of activities on public
property.
9. Supports a state adopted fire and building code, the code of choice being the
International Fire and Building Code, while allowing municipalities to adopt their own
codes and local amendments.
10. Opposes 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.
11. Opposes restricting any local jurisdiction from requiring the installation of fire sprinklers.
12. Supports the City’s ability to prohibit the use and sale of fireworks and allow counties
and fire districts to prohibit and otherwise control fireworks within City boundaries.
13. Supports efforts to reduce abuse and improper disposal of over-the-counter and
prescription drugs.
14. Supports exclusive digital communication networks for public safety personnel during
emergencies.
15. Supports the restoration of qualified immunity for police and other government officials.
16. Supports practical standards related to use of force that appropriately balance the rights
and safety of Fort Collins residents with the safety of first responders.
17. Supports increased reporting of crimes by refraining from inquiries about legal
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immigration status unless such inquiry is pertinent to a crime; supports continuation of
non-restrictive U-Visa certification policies that allow victims of crime to access important
legal protections.
18. Supports continued use of body-worn cameras (BWCs), protections for public recordings
of police, and the maintenance and reporting of such data that does not compromise
police operations or public safety.
19. Supports statute change to allow the deactivation of BWCs when in a law enforcement
facility with active audio and video recording devices and clarify that law enforcement
personnel assigned to administrative duties are exempt from the requirement to wear a
BWC daily.
20. Supports the establishment of the City’s right to enforce municipal codes on City
property that may lie outside the City’s official geographic borders.
21. Opposes legislation offering further leniency for the possession and use of dangerous
narcotics. (?)
22. Supports legislative action that deters the public sale, possession, and use of narcotics.
(?)
RECYCLING AND SOLID WASTE REDUCTION
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
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 applies Zero Waste
principles such as redesigning systems to reduce pollution and waste. Additionally, the City has
adopted a goal of Zero Waste by 2030.
Therefore, the City:
1. Encourages State and regional policies and practices that advance an integrated system
for , waste and materials planning, management and tracking such as centralized data
collection requirements, local hauler licensing and initiatives to reach statewide diversion
targets.
2. Supports a regulatory authority role for local government to ensure the efficient
management of recyclable material and solid waste, including application of laws that
prescribe the use of county-funded disposal facilities for certain types of wastes, and
other local bans on landfill disposal for certain types of debris.
3. Encourages “buy recycled” or “environmentally preferable purchasing” policies for
government agency procurement.
4. Supports incentives and funding for programs that promote waste reduction, reuse and
recycling, and development of related infrastructure.
5. Supports continued or increased funding for programs to collect and monitor data on
trash volumes, rates of diversion from landfill disposal and economic impacts of
recycling.
6. Supports establishing a refundable deposit fee on beverage containers to increase
recovery rates and pay for recycling programs.
7. Supports state and regional economic tools for existing and new businesses that provide
end markets for recycled materials in support of a domestic, circular economy.
8. Supports incentives, programs, and requirements for the commercial use of compost to
expand end markets for organic material (e.g., food scraps and yard trimmings.)
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9. Supports incentives and programs to develop end markets that support salvaging and
recycling of valuable materials from the construction and demolition waste stream.
10. Supports extended producer responsibility initiatives that fund recycling programs and
incentivize products to be designed for reuse, recycling or composting be made of less
toxic materials, while maintaining local control of recycling programs.
11. Opposes mixed waste processing for municipal solid waste and supports utilizing
waste-to-energy technology only for processing materials that are not recyclable or
compostable.
RISK MANAGEMENT AND LIABILITY
HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
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. The City 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:
1. Supports improving administrative efficiency of the Division of Workers’ Compensation.
2. Opposes increased insurance premium costs to employers.
3. Opposes administrative burdens or taxes to self-insurance programs.
4. Supports limits to insurance claim litigation.
5. Opposes limiting the City’s options and ability to manage workers’ compensation claims,
including actions like removing existing offsets to workers’ compensation benefits or
limiting the City’s ability to designate treating physicians.
6. Opposes efforts to presumptively expand workers’ compensation coverage to illnesses
or injuries that are not work related.
7. Opposes efforts to reduce or weaken protections against liability through governmental
immunity or other statutory provisions.
SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT
ECONOMIC HEALTH, HIGH PERFORMING GOVERNMENT
The City of Fort Collins actively supports small businesses throughout their stages of formation
and growth. Changing consumer habits and increased online competition threaten to disrupt the
recovery for small businesses.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports efforts to enhance statewide funding for small business support, including
enhanced services to support new business formation owned by women, minority, low-
income, and veteran individuals.
TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT
TRANSPORTATION & MOBILITY
The City actively promotes transportation infrastructure that facilitates the safe and efficient
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movement of people, goods and services regardless of mode. Infrastructure improvements will
support the Vision Zero plan and be in concert with land use development while being respectful
of community values and the environment.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports alternative methods of funding transportation infrastructure needs.
2. Supports funding the analysis and implementation of inter- and intra-regional transit
linkages, including future commuter rail connectivity.
3. Encourages flexibility in federal funding and regulations in order to better meet the needs
of small to medium-size communities.
4. Supports 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.
5. Supports funding for the build-out of Interstate 25 improvements.
6. Supports additional funding options and availability to increase safety in all modes of
travel.
7. Supports broadening the definition of the gasoline tax to a “fuel tax” that encompasses
other fuel options as they become more prevalent.
8. Opposes municipal reductions to the present HUFT allocation formula.
9. Supports enhanced ability to implement railroad quiet zones in municipalities, further
options in pursuing various degrees of quiet zones, and an overall reduction in train horn
decibel and duration requirements.
10. Opposes divesting highway roads in urban areas from the state and making them the
sole responsibility of local jurisdictions without adequate compensation for ongoing
maintenance.
11. Supports safe operation of railroads through timely track inspections, joint training and
communication between railroad and emergency personnel, and the use of safe
equipment.
12. Supports local regulatory and design standard control of public roads, pedestrian paths
and bike lanes to address all modes of transportation.
13. Supports funding to provide asset management for transportation assets.
URBAN RENEWAL AND DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC HEALTH
The State of Colorado has empowered local authorities to use Urban Renewal Authorities
(URA) and Downtown Development Authorities (DDA) to encourage downtown revitalization
and the elimination of blight. The main funding tool for URAs and DDAs is Tax Increment
Financing (TIF) generated through property taxes. In its best intention, urban renewal and
downtown revitalization restores economic vitality and improves the safety of a designated area
with limited financial impact to other government jurisdictions.
Therefore, the City:
1. Opposes limitations on municipalities’ ability to utilize financing mechanisms such as
TIF.
2. Supports maintaining the ability of downtown development authorities to utilize the full
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offering of tools and powers provided in the DDA Act.
3. Supports maintaining the ability of Urban Renewal Authorities to utilize the full offering of
tools and powers provided for in state statute.
4. Supports legislative action to provide clarity, stability, and predictability to property
taxation formulas and policies.
WATER, WASTEWATER, AND STORMWATER
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, SAFE COMMUNITY
The City operates a water utility, a wastewater utility and a stormwater utility through an
integrated management approach that recognizes the value and interconnectedness of all water
systems. This approach ensures financially sound, reliable, safe and environmentally
responsible considerations that provide sustainable and resilient water access and usage for all,
now and into the future. The availability of adequate water supplies is critical to the City and is
managed by the Water Supply and Demand Management Policy, the Water Efficiency Plan, and
other water-related codes, rules, regulations, plans and policies.
Therefore, the City:
1. Supports expanding the authority delegated to the state to administer federally
mandated water, stormwater and wastewater environmental regulatory programs.
2. Supports protecting the integrity of Colorado’s prior appropriation doctrine to protect the
City’s water supplies and prevent injury to other water users.
3. Supports reasonable water quality regulations that use a science-based approach and
consider holistic solutions that are sustainable, feasible, and protect public health and
the environment.
4. Supports reasonable regulations that establish accountability and responsibility for
generators of emerging contaminants, such as, but not limited to per- and polyfluoroalkyl
substances (PFAS), without placing the sole burden on passive receivers of these
pollutants.
5. Supports flexibility to manage in-stream flows to preserve or improve the natural
environment while protecting the integrity of Colorado’s appropriation doctrine, protecting
the City’s water supplies and preventing injury to other water users.
6. Supports flexibility to promote resiliency from flooding while addressing life safety and
protection of private and public infrastructure on the Cache la Poudre River, it’s
watershed, and tributary waterways.
7. Supports collaboration, policy, and regulations that allow enhancement and restoration
of natural systems to achieve water quality objectives.
8. Supports financing for water conservation projects, such as turf conversions, and
supports new financing opportunities for these projects including grants, zero/low
interest loans, etc., with availability to all water districts and providers.
9. Supports funding for the recovery and resilience of the Fort Collins water supply, its
watershed, and other waterways impacted by or subject to natural disasters and human-
caused events, including fires.
10. Supports enhanced municipal authority to protect and increase the flexibility and
resiliency of the City’s water supplies under Colorado’s appropriation doctrine, without
causing injury to other water users and without adversely affecting in-stream flows or the
natural environment. This includes potential bills related to treated water providers being
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able to more easily share treated water supplies between their distribution systems.
11. Supports reducing legal barriers and clarifying legal ambiguities related to water reuse
and greywater projects while protecting the integrity of Colorado’s appropriation doctrine,
the City’s water supplies and preventing injury to other water users.
12. Supports streamlining of federal and state permitting requirements that increases
coordination between permitting agencies, reduces administrative and financial burdens
on permit applicants, while still ensuring adequate and enforceable environmental
protections.
13. Supports the enlargement of Halligan Reservoir as a common-sense, cost-effective and
environmentally beneficial approach to meet Fort Collins Utilities’ future water supply
needs.
CITY OF FORT COLLINS LEGISLATIVE CONTACTS
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE update to current committee and delete most other
contacts.
Name District/Title Email Phone
Councilmember Tricia Canonico, Chair District 3 tcanonico@fcgov.com 970-305-6296
Councilmember Kelly Ohlson District 5 kohlson@fcgov.com 970-493-7225
Councilmember Julie Pignataro District 2 jpignataro@fcgov.com 970-556-2869
Kelly DiMartino City Manager kdimartino@fcgov.com 970-416-2028
Carrie Daggett City Attorney cdaggett@fcgov.com 970-416-2463
Tyler Marr
Ginny Sawyer Legislative Staff tmarr@fcgov.com
gsawyer@fcgov.com
970-416-4205
970-224-6094