HomeMy WebLinkAboutConstituent Letter - Read Before Packet - 4/16/2019 - Letter To Mayor Troxell And City Councilmembers From Dale Adamy, For Fort Collins Parity (Fcp) Re: Agenda Item #24 - Items Relating To The Adoption Of City PlanDATE: April 15, 2019
TO: Mayor Troxell and City Councilmembers
FROM: Dale Adamy, for Fort Collins Parity (FCP)
RE: Agenda item 24; Items relating to the Adoption of City Plan
FCP recommends Council approval of Draft City Plan (DCP) only if the name is
changed to City Vision, or to City Code Plan. Please read the conclusion at the end
for clarification.
A plan should, at its core, contain detailed methods for preserving that which is positive,
and preventing that which is negative. A plan should also contain a list of resources
required to achieve the plan, to include funding sources. And, a plan should
demonstrate ways the prior plan achieved its goals, and ways to measure
achievements in a current plan proposal. A modern plan should be easy to read, and
simple to share.
FCP assumes Council members have solicited feedback from family, friends, and
neighbors, who have expressed a priority concern, and have found comfort or
confidence in the Draft City Plan (DCP).
FCP did solicit feedback on the DCP. For the following concerns (highlighted in Bold),
confidence and comfort were scarce, as follows:
o Metro District: Knowing the Mulberry MD was before Council on Apr16, sought
to learn how MDs would shape our community, and found no comfort in the
DCP. FCP recommends a delay in Mulberry MD until MDs (and their associated
Service Plans) are included in a City Plan.
o Childcare: Seeing that the local Chamber of Commerce had shared their
TALENT 2.0, which (to paraphrase) found that a lack of affordable childcare will
limit the progress of the local workforce. A search in the DCP for childcare found
no comfort.
o Resilience: Concerned for an unexpected loss of reliable energy to power our
city, sought robust strategies to prevent a crisis or catastrophe, and found none.
o Housing: A homeless person sought comfort in the DCP, and found none, and
expects to remain homeless in the near term.
o Arts: wishing to learn the role of city government in supporting the arts, found
confidence. Ref URL ‘FCGOV’ “FoCoCreates”.
o Privacy: Concerned over the ways data is used as a method for crime, sought
how Information Technology is protecting the community, and innovations for
progress beyond broadband; found nothing to offer confidence.
o Other: Many other topics have been overlooked from the DCP, including a plan
for reducing food deserts, or a strategy on how to address human trafficking, to
name a few.
Memo to Council
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FCP continues to write its plan for the city, which will include measurable outcomes for
all the above feedback responses, along with many other planning elements. And, at a
future date, will share with the community.
Council members will hopefully see from this communication, that there is something
basic missing from the TCP. Foremost, the DCP is not a plan, and the community
expected a plan. Thus, Council might legitimately question the DCP’s value to
community. Council might also ask why anything should be missing after such an
exhaustive outreach and an approximate $1M expenditure. Regardless of a decision on
whether to adopt the DCP, FCP implores Council to study an alternative approach for
creating a comprehensive City Plan, and look to the community for input beyond
outreach, which might also prevent future Memos in a Read Before packet.