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Home My WebLink AboutMemo - Read Before Packet - 1/14/2020 - Memorandum From Delynn Coldiron Re: Items Relating To Montava Planned Unit Development Master Plan And Overlay (Comments Through Noon)From: Kathleen Collins To: City Leaders Cc: dschwaab@gmail.com Subject: Montava PUD Proposal comments Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 9:54:08 PM Kathleen Collins, David Schwaab 1411 Hillside Dr. Fort Collins, CO 80524 To Fort Collins City Council Members; We are writing to give you our considered comments on the Montava Planned Unit Development (PUD) proposal that lays before you. We have lived along the Front Range for over 50 years, over 36 of them in Fort Collins, and we are not opposed to development. We live about a mile from the proposed development, in the old Country Club Estates neighborhood. We attended the last Planning and Zoning Board meeting considering Montava where they approved the PUD proposal, our having learned of the Montava development plans only a few days prior. We left this meeting with the impression that all the important issues and adjoining neighborhoods impacts of the proposal had been addressed by the city staff and that the necessary infrastructure considerations were all in order for this large development. Upon subsequent scrutiny and research, We were alarmed to discover that our impression was completely unfounded. Many issues critical to any future Montava residents and to the thousands of residents already living in the surrounding neighborhoods [1] are addressed only in misleading descriptions, e.g., “planned”, rather than as an integral part of the proposal with concrete, funding-determined deliverables with dates. As currently proposed, the PUD developer is given many valuable commitments and guarantees by the city, while the affected residents are given no commitments to address current, large infrastructure issues that the PUD would dramatically exacerbate. Perhaps the largest of these issues is the city traffic impact study (TIS) which does not consider or address the impact of the PUD on the surrounding, rural, two-lane Larimer county roads that are necessary to connect the PUD to north Fort Collins (shopping, services), and the rest of downtown. These are Country Club Rd., which leads directly into Montava from N. College Ave. and CO 1, N. Lemay Ave. connecting Country Club Rd. to the south and traffic access to Tavelli Elementary School, and Richards Lake Rd. and Gregory Rd. also connecting with CO 1 to N. College Ave. The only other route connecting Montava to the south is Turnberry Rd. to Mountain Vista, then east to the two-lane N. Timberline Rd. which runs south from Mountain Vista and intersecting with E. Vine at the RR tracks. All of the surrounding neighborhoods depend solely upon exits onto these busy county and city two-lane roads, which are also severely restricted at the two intersections of N. Lemay and E. Vine and N. Timberline and E. Vine by the railroad tracks and rail yard sidings running parallel to E. Vine between Lemay and Timberline, and at the two intersections of Country Club Rd. at the Country Club entrance and at Turnberry Rd., which are less than 50 yards apart. The current road infrastructure simply cannot support the additional traffic forecasted from Montava in its first phase and beyond. Unfortunately, the proposed solution to this forecasted traffic congestion (an additional 42,468 vehicle trips/day, already adjusted with trip-reductions for the intended, somehow to-be-built, “multimodal network”) is to extend Turnberry and N. Giddings roads from Mountain Vista Dr. to an extended Conifer St. and to an extended Suniga Road. The problem with this is that it is only an imagined solution, because all of the property rights needed to extend and join Conifer, Suniga, Turnberry, and Giddings do not belong to the city or county, their acquisition is not funded, nor are the roads themselves funded. This could take many years to accomplish, if ever, and what are all of the neighborhoods’ residents expected to do in the interim? The TIS is based on all of the intended traffic mitigation measures being in place by 2040. There are no commitments for when, how ($), or even if, the intended traffic mitigation issues will ever be in place. Given the tremendous growth our community has experienced, perhaps especially over the past 15 years, we are now seeing new, important issues arise with some of our infrastructure that require new approaches and solutions if we are to maintain a reasonably good quality of living. The old ways of doing things don't do the best job anymore. The questions arising from the TIS analysis for the PUD proposal that must be answered are: 1) Why did the TIS not analyze traffic impacts on all of the roads and intersections affected by the PUD, including the directly impacted residential county roads which lead directly to Montava? Could it be that the impacted county roads serving current neighborhoods were conveniently excluded from consideration because of the great road infrastructure problem such analysis could create for the current PUD as proposed, even rendering it materially deficient? 2) Why was the Fort Collins/Larimer County Intergovernmental agreement (IGA), which requires the city to make improvements to roads in the county impacted by city development, not engaged and adhered to in the current Montava PUD proposal for its intended benefit of all affected citizens? Could it be because the city of Fort Collins did not want to recognize the many difficult and troublesome issues with the county roads that will be caused for current neighborhoods by the Montava proposal in its current form? 3) How can the IGA be implemented without including Country Club Rd., N. Lemay Ave., Gregory Rd., and Richards Lake Rd. (between Turnberry and CO 1) in the TIS? 4) How will the crossings of the Great Western Railroad at Lemay and at Timberline, immediately south of Vine, and the increased traffic congestion and subsequent safety issues [2] that will be introduced according to the TIS, be addressed? 5) Why is the city providing Montava with water and sewer service at a deep discount within the Elco Water District and the Boxelder Sanitation District? This provision saves the developer approximately $30.8M. (On Dec. 28, 2019 the Loveland Utility Commission increased the cash-in-lieu fee to the City of Loveland for CBT water rights to the current market rate of $47,640 per acre foot). Should not this large windfall to the Montava developer instead be directed to the road infrastructure improvements required for new and existing residents affected because of the Montava development, rather than to the developer? The current Montava PUD proposal is materially deficient. The TIS must be amended to 1) include the directly impacted adjacent county roads of Country Club Rd., N. Lemay and Gregory Rd., and Richards Lake Rd., and 2) include all street and intersection mitigation measures identified as needed for those county roads. Any mitigation measures identified as needed for these county roads must also be in place to serve Montava and the surrounding neighborhoods prior to the issuance of any Montava building permits. The street and intersection mitigation measures to Turnberry Rd. and Suniga Rd., identified in the TIS, must also be in place to adequately serve Montava and the surrounding neighborhoods prior to the issuance of any Montava building permits. Approving the Montava proposal with anything less will violate the trust and confidence of many citizens of Fort Collins and adjacent Larimer County neighborhoods. Thank you. Sincerely, Kathleen Collins, David Schwaab [1] These include Mosaic, Collins Aire Park, Dry Creek, Bullrun, Vine neighborhoods east of Timberline including Waterglen, Storybook, Adriel Hills, Maple Hill, Richards Lake, Brightwater Crossing, the Country Club, Nedra Acres, County Club Estates, Crestview, Dellwood Heights, Falcon Ridge, Pheasant Ridge, Lindenlake, Greenbrier, Evergreen, Redwood Meadows, and Alta Vista. These neighborhoods depend upon exits from their neighborhoods onto two- lane county and city roads, including Country Club Rd., N. Lemay, Gregory Rd., Richards Lake Rd., Turnberry Rd., Mountain Vista Dr., N. Timberline, N. Geddings Rd., and E. Vine, none of which are designed to remotely handle the added city-forecasted vehicle trips Montava would generate. [2] Because of space constraints, there are no left-hand turn lanes at the intersection of Lemay and Vine (at the railroad tracks). Subsequently, given traffic congestion, which is usually blocks long, vehicles traveling through in both north and south, and east and west, directions must constantly go around left-turning vehicles (on their right- hand sides). This is an exceptionally busy and dangerous two-lane road intersection. A left-turn signal was tried years ago but was removed because it exacerbated the traffic congestion. From: Tauny Gilmore To: Delynn Coldiron Subject: FW: Montava Proposal: Hello neighbor, this is one of those show-up or shut-up opportunities! Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 3:49:27 PM Tauny Gilmore Administrative Assistant in the City Manager’s Office 970-416-4312 tagilmore@fcgov.com From: Martha Coleman <mmbc2020@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 2:36 PM To: Gregory George <gregcgeorge8@gmail.com> Cc: Longs Pond <long_pond_fc@googlegroups.com>; David Beede <beede@msu.edu>; camcolee@gmail.com; mktsol@msn.com; Analene Carlisle <analenec@msn.com>; Andrea Mihajlov <andreamihajlov@yahoo.com>; David Cismoski <skijune@msn.com>; Deanna Adams <waypointco@yahoo.com>; Dianna French <Dianafrench99@hotmail.com>; Dick Easley <dickeasley@gmail.com>; Don Homan <donhoman@frii.com>; Ed Robert <airforceed@comcast.net>; Francie Scolley <fscalley@yahoo.com>; Ginger Davila <ginger.davila@doane.edu>; Goanna Harms <runr5367@yahoo.com>; Hunter <RichardsLake@gmail.com>; Jim and Judy Moore <jjmoore1121@gmail.com>; Jim Salisbury <jsalisbury@poudre-fire.org>; Kathie and Bruce Smith <Kduchensmith@gmail.com>; Kathy Mrocko <mroczko63@yahoo.com>; Linda Helm <linda@fineprintimaging.com>; Linda Rager <hcgflinda@gmail.com>; Michael Gordon <gordon.m@msn.com>; Nan Sollo <nansollo@gmail.com>; Patty Nichols <pattynic1950@gmail.com>; Paul Navarre <ptontheroad@hotmail.com>; Quentin Rockwell <qrockwell@wemberinc.com>; Rachel Lee <rachel@leedesigngrp.com>; Ram Oad <ramchand.oad@colostate.edu>; Ray Cole <elocyar@gmail.com>; Rita Deike <Rita.Deike@colostate.edu>; Roger Cox <rac1943@msn.com>; Ronnie Owens <rowens1792@yahoo.com>; Save Country Club Road <savecountryclubroad@groups.io>; Ted Rossin <ted_rossin@yahoo.com>; Ty Easley <ty@varunabhi.com>; Vicki Mayea <vickimayea@gmail.com>; Virginia Mohr-Callahan <gina.mohrcallahan@gmail.com>; drsparkman61@yahoo.com; drummond.hrco@gmail.com; lorin@waterwiselandscapes.com; morganbridger@gmail.com; Fred Zipp <fzipp@frii.com>; Rachel Hopper <r-hopper@comcast.net>; Tasha Marchant <tashamarchant12@gmail.com>; bsdacctg@boxeldersanitation.org; Wade Troxell <WTroxell@fcgov.com>; Darin Atteberry <DATTEBERRY@fcgov.com>; Susan Gutowsky <sgutowsky@fcgov.com>; Ross Cunniff <rcunniff@fcgov.com>; Kristin Stephens <kstephens@fcgov.com>; Julie Pignataro <jpignataro@fcgov.com>; Emily Gorgol <egorgol@fcgov.com>; Raju Jairam <Raju@mbi.com>; Jim@ushba.com; ERIC <eknudson67@gmail.com>; Gib Charles <greengib@comcast.net>; Sandy <sandycharles@comcast.net>; PETER A JACOBS <paj109@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Montava Proposal: Hello neighbor, this is one of those show-up or shut-up opportunities! Hi all - In speaking with Councilmember Kristin Stephens about this process, I received similar information as David. Kristin highly recommended that we submit written comments/letters because even 3 minutes goes very fast, and a written statement essentially gives the council more exposure time to the topics and potentially more information. Thanks, Martha Coleman On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 2:11 PM Gregory George <gregcgeorge8@gmail.com> wrote: David - This is excellent. Thanks for the very good and thoughtful Talking Points. They should help others formulate their comments on issue(s) they are most passionate about. Thanks again. Greg George On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:31 PM David Beede <cowtrout@gmail.com> wrote: please excuse multiple emails Hello neighbors, this is one of those show-up or shut-up meeting opportunities! What: Fort Collins City Council meeting ---- public hearing about the proposed Montava Planned Unit Development (PUD) Master Plan When: Tuesday, January 14, 6:00 PM Venue: City Hall West, 300 LaPorte Ave., Fort Collins All of us are invited and encouraged to attend and provide oral input regarding the proposed Montava PUD. Upon arrival at the meeting each person wanting to speak (3 minutes per person) should sign-in with their name and residential address with the City’s representative at the front of the Hall. Be 15 to 30 minutes early to sign-in and reserve your speaking time slot. Written comments and letters to Fort Collins City Council members and Larimer County Commissioners can precede your Jan 14 oral comments and be delivered via email and(or) USPS (contact & address information in the attached file). Mailing by Jan 12 is best to ensure on-time delivery before a possible vote Jan 14 right after the public hearing. Attached are TALKING POINTS offered mainly as background. You should express in your own words with questions and share your own experiences and concerns --- your location, your life, and your family relative to the proposed Montava PUD. Dave Beede 1701 Rangeview Dr. -- To join this email group, send an email to long_pond_fc+subscribe@googlegroups.com from the email account that you'd like to use for the list. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "long_pond_fc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to long_pond_fc+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/long_pond_fc/CAKKwE- p8c9iZudXG835bYPB0Z_OHBLZj%3DraEXEE7R%3DOA1MfGTg%40mail.gmail.com. From: Tauny Gilmore To: Delynn Coldiron Subject: FW: Lapse of opportunity to preserve argument/evidence: Montava PUD Date: Friday, January 10, 2020 11:02:38 AM Tauny Gilmore Administrative Assistant in the City Manager’s Office 970-416-4312 tagilmore@fcgov.com From: Eric Sutherland <sutherix@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2020 10:21 AM To: Carrie Daggett <CDAGGETT@fcgov.com>; City Leaders <CityLeaders@fcgov.com>; Clay Frickey <cfrickey@fcgov.com>; Brad Yatabe <byatabe@fcgov.com>; Delynn Coldiron <DECOLDIRON@fcgov.com> Subject: Lapse of opportunity to preserve argument/evidence: Montava PUD Ms. Dagget and city officials, Please provide the public with the city's position on the time that it believes citizens opportunity to preserve argument and evidence in the record regarding the Montava PUD approval lapses. This question essentially asks whether or not opponents or proponents of the PUD application must preserve argument and evidence by no later than the close of the public hearing on first reading, or whether argument and evidence that is received by the decision makers no later than commencement of second reading of the Ordinance will, from the city's perspective, be deemed to have been timely filed for purposes of certiorari review. Because the City itself will compile and transmit the record in the event of an appeal, I believe it would be good for the public interest to have this specific question answered as soon as possible. I request that this question be answered by the end of today, Friday, Jan. 10th, 2020. Eric Sutherland From: Eric Sutherland To: Delynn Coldiron; Carrie Daggett Subject: Request for Inspection of Public Records: Montava quasi-judicial Date: Thursday, January 9, 2020 4:53:41 PM Please provide for public inspection all records responding to the following cirteria: PART One All records that evidence a local law requiring Council to make a determination by applying facts to a specific case to certain criteria established by law in the quasi- judicial matter regarding Montava that has been continued to January 14th, 2020. PART Two All records that evidence criteria established by law that are applicable to the determination of the matter regarding Montava that has been continued to January 14th, 2020. Reference: Snyder v. Lakewood In order to support a finding that the action of a municipal legislative body is quasi-judicial, all of the following factors must exist: (1) a state or local law requiring that the body give adequate notice to the community before acting; (2) a state or local law requiring that the body conduct a public hearing, pursuant to notice, at which time concerned citizens must be given an opportunity to be heard and present evidence; and (3) a state or local law requiring the body to make a determination by applying the facts of a specific case to certain criteria established by law. Thank you, Eric Sutherland From: Timothy Frank To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Water Request - comment for 1/14 meeting Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 1:03:56 PM I urge you to deny Montava's request for cheaper water from Fort Collins to supply a new development. When there are new developments, they should be placed where the infrastructures and resources are available and affordable. Fort Collins citizens should not pay developers for irresponsible developments. If this new community is not sustainable without being subsidized by our city and its citizens, it should not exist. Thank you for voting 'no' to this request. Timothy Frank Fort Collins From: Larry Weatherly To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 1:01:02 PM I ask each of the members, where do you live? Do you live in North Fort Collins? How many time have you experience substantial delays at the Lemay and Timberline railroad crossings in the last month, week, or today, or yesterday? When do you think a tragedy is going to occur due to an emergency personnel delay? Why would you even consider approval of this impressive sounding development until you can insure the safety of your existing constituency and neighbors with proper infrastructure? There have been reports and stories in the media about what a great place Fort Collins is to live, and we all know it is. There have been many recent media stories about future planning from 1993 or 20 year plans from the past…. Stories praising retired personnel from the planning and other departments for 30 years of service etc….. (Of course we always publicly say nice things about people when they are gone). I think some of these people should take a long look in the mirror and ask themselves, did I always make the best decisions for the people that mattered? Did I make decisions that were influenced or lead to poor choices for the people I was supposedly representing? Did I make short sided decisions for the current glitz or headlines? Yes Fort Collins has been hailed for many great things it has become. But it isn’t discussed in the media on how you balance facts like we have the most miles of hiking and biking trails of almost any city in the country, and we have not passed the federal clean air standards for decades. Let’s not compound it and avoid future media reports and pictures of our fellow bikers and joggers out on the trails with masks on so we they can enjoy the environment we live in. The air and water is not in infinite human acceptable states unless we treat them as such and live wisely. You are in a position to make decisions that affect us today and our children and grandchildren in the future. Yes, this development could be a great addition to Northern Colorado, but please do it intelligently and do it right. Make sure the proper infrastructure is in place FIRST for the current and future residences that it affects the most! I ask the same question to the author of today’s Coloradoan opinion page author Max Moss; where do you live? As one of this country’s most honorable statesmen said “Let us put our minds together and see what future we can make for our children” Thank you for your time and consideration. I pray you make wise decisions. Larry Weatherly Adriel Hills From: jperkins1019@gmail.com To: City Leaders Subject: Montava proposal Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 12:31:48 PM Dear Sir/Madam, I recently learned of the Montava proposal which includes subsidized water for this proposed sprawling development. I trust you will vote against this proposal and represent the current citizens of Ft. Collins. I understand this proposal to include the construction of approximately 4,000 houses. How possibly can the current infrastructure support such a development? Has anyone considered the impact to the community and environment from such a development? The issue at hand surrounding whether or not this developer can “afford” the water is not the citizens problem. Why would one developer be subsidized but another not? We certainly cannot subsidize everyone. I fail to see how anyone can think this is a burden to be placed on the citizens of Ft. Collins. To me there are two choices for this developer; pay for the water like everyone else or go elsewhere. In addition, this proposal brings other inherent issues such as diversion and destruction of the Poudre River in order to supply this massive development, to name but a few. I trust you will represent your existing citizens and vote against this proposed development and any proposals regarding subsidized water. Sincerely, Jody Perkins Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Greg Speer To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 12:30:40 PM Council, I am writing to express my concern and opposition to the City providing water for the Montava development. In my view, if the developer can’t afford the water that is available then the developer cannot afford to do the project. Water is going to increasingly and rapidly become the rate limiting factor for growth in Colorado and this is a prime example of that reality. There will come a time in the not too distant future when there simply will be no more water available for growth. In the meantime I am adamantly opposed to the City in effect subsidizing the Montava development and agree with others that to provide water beyond our designated service area would set a bad precedent. I ask that you please vote against the developer’s request for our water. Thank you. Greg Speer 1831 Laporte Ave. Fort Collins 80521 970-631-8230 From: Randy Perkins To: City Leaders Subject: Montava proposal Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 10:25:20 AM Dear Sir/Madam, I recently learned of the Montava proposal which includes subsidized water for this proposed sprawling development. I trust you will vote against this proposal and represent the current citizens of Ft. Collins. I understand this proposal to include the construction of approximately 4,000 houses. How possibly can the current infrastructure support such a development? Has anyone considered the impact to the community and environment from such a development? The issue at hand surrounding whether or not this developer can “afford” the water is not the citizens problem. Why would one developer be subsidized but another not? We certainly cannot subsidize everyone. I fail to see how anyone can think this is a burden to be placed on the citizens of Ft. Collins. To me there are two choices for this developer; pay for the water like everyone else or go elsewhere. In addition, this proposal brings other inherent issues such as diversion and destruction of the Poudre River in order to supply this massive development, to name but a few. I trust you will represent your existing citizens and vote against this proposed development and any proposals regarding subsidized water. Regards, Randy Perkins From: Karen Rae To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 10:04:05 AM I oppose to the proposed Montava development for the following reasons: train tracks already cause problems and adding 4,000 homes will compound this issue Traffic on Timberline is maxed out! There are no traffic signals at Lincoln and International where many accidents happen The developer has no water for the project. Getting water from Fort Collins is a bad idea for many reasons. Please do not approve this project. Karen Goggin Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From: Jason Curtis To: City Leaders Subject: Please vote "No" on subsidizing Montava project water request Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 10:04:00 AM As a registered voter in Larimer County, and the city of Fort Collins, I’m urging you to vote “NO” on the proposed water subsidy to the Montava project. Thank you, Jason Jason Curtis Industrial Piping Specialists, Inc. 4032 Medford Drive Loveland, CO 80538 970-541-6125 Direct jcurtis@ipipes.com From: Al Nelson To: City Leaders Subject: No to Montava Water Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 9:53:24 AM Nothing more to say. They need to find their own water. Ft Collins needs to protect our water including prices, availability, etc. NO WATER FOR MONTAVA!! From: Shawn Streeter To: Susan Gutowsky; City Leaders Subject: Montava concerns Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 9:34:30 AM Councilmember Gutowsky, I am a long-time resident of Fort Collins and have lived in District 1 for the past 12 years. I am writing to share my opposition to the Montava project. I will keep my comments brief. While I think the Montava development has many intriguing ideas and unique design elements, I am primarily concerned with meeting the infrastructure needs for this large scale, leapfrog project. Specifically I am most concerned with the traffic flow to and from this new neighborhood on the existing rural roadways. Traffic on the north side of Fort Collins has been long neglected, with added subdivisions, significant increases in traffic counts, virtually no road improvements, and disappointingly, no action on the increased train delays on Vine at both Lemay and Timberline. City engineer Martina Wilkinson was quoted in the Coloradoan saying that it was too early in the process to know all the "ins and outs" of traffic with Montava, but she did recognize "There will be substantial additional traffic." This is concerning to me and should be to you as well. Traffic congestion, more frequent and longer train delays, and a lack of an arterial thoroughfare connecting residents to the heart of Fort Collins are all issues already plaguing this area. Adding Montava to this mix will further exacerbate an existing public safety issue and negatively impact the quality of life for existing residents. I understand the city prefers to add traffic infrastructure after areas have met certain thresholds, however I strongly believe this project in particular needs to have traffic improvements completed prior to the start of any construction. Specifically, Timberline, Turnberry and Mountain Vista roads need to be widened and Suniga needs to be completed east of Lemay before this development proceeds. If you add in the additional concerns raised by both ELCO and Boxelder with regards to water and sewer service, it feels like the City of Fort Collins is ignoring data and at risk of setting some dangerous precedence here. I would suggest the prudent response would be to put this project on hold until thoughtful consideration and answers can be given to all of the infrastructure components of this massive project. Thank you for representing my concerns to the council. Please contact me if you have any questions. Sincerely - Shawn Streeter From: Larry Bader To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Development Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 9:01:53 AM Dear City Leaders, I stand by Gary Wockner’s opinion in the Coloradoan that Fort Collins shouldn't give the Montava developer our water. If Montava presents a take it or leave it attitude I think you should leave it and prevent this proposed albatross altogether. Thank you, Larry Bader 3627 Silvertip Pl Fort Collins From: Elizabeth Nance To: City Leaders Subject: PLEASE support Montava! Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 8:54:36 AM Dear City Council members and City Manager, My name is Elizabeth Nance. My home address is 845 Juniper Lane, Fort Collins, Co 80526. I attended CSU from 1975-1980. Since I am out of town I am writing instead of attending the meeting tomorrow night. Believe me, if I could be there I WOULD BE to show my enthusiastic support for the exciting Montava project! My husband and I have been downtown Fort Collins property owners since 1983 - 20+ years on Sherwood Street and now 11+ years in the Sheely neighborhood. Truthfully, Montava is the first new development we have ever considered in Fort Collins. We have known (and been very excited) about the Montava development for several years. Why? Because Max Moss has a vision for Montava that makes sense and will work for us AND be a much needed future forward direction for the city of Fort Collins. That has not been the case with any other development in this area EVER! We want to live, not just sleep, in a vibrant community that offers all that a neighborhood should: access to food (especially Native Hill Farm), entertainment, work and play options all with a diverse age, economic and “thought” demographic of residents. We want to be in a well planned new development that has thought about, and planned for, not being completely reliant on cars to buy a loaf of bread or a carton of milk. We want to live in a community where walking, riding bikes and public transportation has been planned before construction instead of the status quo of inadequately trying to retrofit bike lanes and walking paths after the fact. We want to live in a neighborhood where there are safe and easily accessible gathering places. I am very aware of the concerns of current residents close to the Montava site. I understand traffic is a big issue. Traffic has been a terrible problem for years in that area and will continue to be with or without Montava unless real solutions are actually done instead of just being talked about. I believe the Montava plan will actually help, not exacerbate, the traffic issues. I also know that many of the residents in Northeast Fort Collins have been there for many years and like the rural nature of the area. Well, this is a “not if, but what?” situation in my opinion. Shouldn’t we, as folks who want to see Fort Collins grow smartly, encourage thoughtful and future forward planning instead of just more of the same? I am so frightened by entitled and privileged people holding on to their “way of life”. The “We’ve got ours and we want to be the last ones in!” attitude is what happened to Boulder years ago. Now it is impossible for teachers, service workers and regular folks to live there. We are getting very close to becoming another Boulder if smart decisions are not made soon in Fort Collins. My husband and I dealt with that same resistant attitude in our neighborhood with most of the longterm residents fighting the new CSU stadium. NEWS FLASH folks… you moved 2 blocks from a major university and you don’t want growth??? Maybe move to the mountains? We love Fort Collins and are committed to making it a wonderful place to live going forward. We have raised our children here, sent them to the excellent public schools here, bought properties here, attend church here and want to see our grandchildren thrive here. We have never experienced a developer with the longterm vision and level of honesty as Max Moss. He’s the real deal and has the best interests of Fort Collins at heart. Thank you for reading this! Elizabeth L. Nance 970.420.3652 From: Rick Yabroff To: City Leaders Subject: Water for Montava Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 8:44:25 AM I am against providing Fort Collins water to a development outside of the Fort Collins Water Utility service area. This is a bad precedent for other future development projects and does not provide enough benefit to the citizens of Fort Collins to justify it. Water is only getting more scarce and developments that can't afford water should not be built. There are some limits to growth and this is one. We participated in the City Visioning process and subsidizing uneconomical development projects was never identified as a priority or value. Rick and Loretta Yabroff 5132 Star Dust Ln. Fort Collins, CO 80528 From: Colleen Mesec To: City Leaders Subject: Montana Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 8:08:32 AM Short & to the point. “NO to Montana.” Enough is enough with these out of state developers! Sent from my iPhone From: Holly Allen-Young To: City Leaders Subject: No Water Subsidies to Montava Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 6:00:51 AM Dear City Council Members, I am urging you to not grant Montava's request to subsidize water to their proposed development. We cannot afford rate increases to ratepayers to line the pockets of big developers. Please vote no on January 14th. Thank you, Holly Allen-Young From: Emmanuel Didier To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 10:51:13 PM Fort Collins is about place - and progress. Not cheap mass-development like Montava. Let’s push back to these plans and let’s be ambitious. Let’s favor smart sustainable growth: a new place that further enhances our community: not a big mistake like Montava that burdens our unique place. Emmanuel Didier Landscape Architect Fort Collins From: Michelle Goforth To: City Leaders Subject: I say no! Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 9:57:46 PM As a citizen of north west for Collins, I say no to this development. Sent from my iPad. From: Susan Yadon To: City Leaders Subject: Montava water Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 8:48:47 PM I am writing in response to the proposed new development of nearly 4,000 houses — the “Montava” project — in northeast Fort Collins near the Budweiser facility and their lack of affordable water. I do not feel it is in the best interest of Fort Collins and the Poudre River, to subsidize sprawling new growth and Texas developers. I agree with the Coloradoan; growth needs to pay its own way, not be subsidized and fueled by current city ratepayers. My water rates — or any rates, taxes, and fees — shoul not be increased because of growth. I urge you to vote AGAINST Montava's application. Sincerely, Susan Yadon 2701 Dixon Creek Ln, Fort Collins, CO 80526 970-217-7552 From: Tobey Y To: City Leaders Subject: Montava subsidy Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 8:34:43 PM I read the Coloradoan article and I agree that the taxpayers of Fort Collins should not subsidize the the Montava development. I hope you agree and vote against their request. Sincerely Tobey Yadon 2701 Dixon Creek Ln, Fort Collins, CO 80526 (970)226-1482 From: Mark Near To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 7:45:55 PM I encourage the city leadership to not approve any plans for Montava at this time. The are currently does not have the infrastructure to handle the traffic that a development this large will create. It is time for Fort Collins to stop approving more and more building without first having the necessary infrastructure in place to deal with it. Each year traffic in Fort Collins becomes more and more of a nightmare and city council continues to approve growth with no improvements in infrastructure. Fort Collins should not bring Montava into it's water district. Fort Collins should not be poaching customers from other water districts. If water is too expensive for the developer then the project should not be built. Fort Collins citizens should not be expected to subsidize developers and builders. City council should not be swayed by builder promises of working farms, open spaces, etc. Residents of Bucking Horse were promised a working farm that turned into a daycare when the builder decided a farm would hurt his bottom line. It is time that city government represent the current residents of Fort Colloins and not builders and developers. Thank you, Mark W Near From: jan findlater To: City Leaders Subject: Re: Montava development Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 6:49:20 PM As a long time (29 years) Fort Collins resident, and 45 years total in the state of Colorado, I am writing to express my dismay at the prospect of Fort Collins water being given to the Montava development. As the most recent years have showed us, the pro-development leaning (heavily outside money funded members) of the City Counsel and Mayor have gone to great lengths to approve development at any cost. We have a real water shortage on our hands, and the rates for water are becoming untenable for the average home owner. I own a small lot, and my fees have almost tripled over the last 5 years, even with our conservation efforts. We don’t need our rates to rise because of this behemoth that has been proposed. Developers never pay for their own developments, they are always asking for more from local communities. It is a horrible shame to see the mess that the development of the Hughes Stadium is creating. Lennar homes NEVER builds affordable housing, and CSU is waiting to cash in on each lot. I remember when Pat Stryker recently put in $25 million dollars to upgrade Hughes. Maybe she should be given the option to own the site. Montava is not needed, will not provide affordable housing, will deplete already stressed water supplies and increased fees for current residents, and the traffic and pollution will certainly not be worth it; much less the higher risk of fires. Fort Collins doesn’t need to grow by 12,000 people in one development. I have to wonder if pro-growth counsel members are lining their pockets with this deal. I see no benefit for the locals. Elko water will either say yes or no. It is not Fort Collins business to get involved. Remember that we are already dealing with bad decisions to allow Thornton to divert much of our water. The Poudre River is our crown jewel, please do not let politics and dirty money destroy this lovely water source for the community and the animals that need the water to survive. They are already stressed. Thank you for listening (or maybe you won’t, which would not be a huge surprise). Jan Findlater From: Ann Fairchild To: City Leaders Subject: City of Fort Collins water Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 4:50:33 PM Leaders, Water is gold in Colorado. We must protect our resources and not approve the request of the Montava developers. Water is not cheap. If they wish to develop and need water they must pay for it. Fort Collins owes them nothing -rather they must earn the privilege of intruding on our community. I moved here from Austin Tx and we have much to learn from the explosive growth that has forever changed the culture there. It is irretrievable. Thank you, Ann Fairchild Sent from my iPhone From: Bob Shelley To: City Leaders Subject: Montava development Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 2:46:49 PM Please do not approve extending Fort Collins existing water supplies to subsidize the proposed massive new development at Montava. Development must be on a "pay as you go" basis and the current taxpayers/ratepayers must not be asked to subsidize new development. When a development wants the system extended to service their area, they must pay the entire cost for both the system and the water to be used by the new development. Otherwise, the development is not cost-effective for the City and its taxpayers/ratepayers. I used to live in Las Vegas where water supplies are much more limited and that was how development was charged. Please do not let pro-development real estate interests hoping to make a profit from selling homes and land in the new development area influence the City's decisions inappropriately. Resist. The rest of us will remember your choices at election time. Thank you for reading my input to your decision, Robert Shelley 1303 Stanton Creek Drive Fort Collins, CO 80525 From: Scott gordon To: City Leaders Subject: cityleaders@fcgov.com Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 1:11:04 PM Please do not allow Montava to steal our water, this will be a predictable nightmare and as Gary stated below it sets a dangerous precedent. Instead of wasting tax payers money on this cluster, invest in upgrading the soon to be bankrupt mall Thank you a 25 year resident Opinion: Fort Collins shouldn't give Montava developer our water Gary Wockner Published 8:00 a.m. MT Jan. 11, 2020 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINEMAILMORE Gary Wockner Gary Wockner (Photo: Courtesy photo) From where I stand, the massive proposed new development of nearly 4,000 houses (and about 12,000 people) — the “Montava” project — in northeast Fort Collins near the Budweiser facility has hit a snag: water. The Montava developer — a corporation based in Texas — has publicly stated that they don’t have access to “affordable water” and they can’t afford to buy it from the water district that supplies water to that area, the East Larimer County Water District (ELCO). So, in effect, they are asking the city of Fort Collins to subsidize them and provide them with water at a much cheaper rate. On Jan. 14, the Fort Collins City Council is scheduled to review the Montava application for its new development. We encourage the council to say “no” to Montava. First, growth must pay its own way, not be subsidized and fueled by current city ratepayers. If you live in the Fort Collins Water Utility service area, you should not have your water rates — or any rates, taxes, and fees — increased because of growth. Second, extending the city’s valuable water supply outside of its designated service area is a bad precedent. If our water portfolio is offered to Montava, other developers will knock on the same door and our ratepayers will be adversely affected. With all the proposed and predicted growth in the area, this precedent could be a never- ending water-supply-and-subsidy fiasco for Fort Collins ratepayers. Third, city ratepayers already have a huge monkey on their backs with the proposed $125 million expenditure to expand Halligan Reservoir northwest of Fort Collins on the North Fork of the Poudre River. Adding more developments needing even more water — especially sprawling masses like Montava — just increases the likelihood that more river-destroying dams will be proposed, costing more hundreds of millions of dollars. Finally, the City Council is supposed to represent the citizens of Fort Collins, not some developer or people who might want to live here in the future. This development — as well as its problem with affordable water — is not the city’s nor the citizens’ problem. In fact, if the city were to accept any new development, the question should be: “What benefit does this development provide to current citizens?” It shouldn’t be: “What benefit can the current citizens provide to this development?” Montava’s growth will bring sprawl, traffic congestion, air pollution, more waste, more climate-change causing greenhouse gas emissions, more strain on city infrastructure, and more strain on all city programs and services. And now they’re seeking a financial benefit because they say they can’t afford the cost of water for their development, as well as asking to increase the diversion and destruction of the Poudre River, which provides water to Fort Collins. This Montava project is obviously half- baked. You can send an email to the City Council at cityleaders@fcgov.com. You can also show up at the council meeting on Jan. 14. Tell the council to represent you and the Poudre River, not sprawling new growth and Texas developers asking for subsidies. Gary Wockner is director of Save The Poudre and a Fort Collins Utilities ratepayer. Contact him at Gary.Wockner@SaveThePoudre.org. From: b.a. b To: City Leaders Subject: Montava water request-comment for Jan. 14 mtg Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 1:08:04 PM I urge you to deny Montava's request for cheaper water from Fort Collins to feed a new development. This kind of development should be considered unsustainable if it cannot afford the water and infrastructure to feed it. If there is to be development, it should instead be conducted where the infrastructures and resources are available and affordable. As Fort Collins citizens we are already facing ever-increasing utility costs in the city-our citizens should not be asked to continue sacrificing our well being to line out-of-state developers' pockets. If this request is approved, it will set a precedent potentially putting us on the hook to subsidize future water requests. The water is expensive because it is a precious commodity, we cannot pretend we have a never-ending supply and we cannot afford to let developers off the hook for their costs at the expense of our citizens. If this new community is not sustainable without being subsidized by our city and its citizens, then perhaps that is a sign that it should not exist. Thank you for voting 'no' to this request. B. Boddiger From: KENNETH LAMPORT To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Water Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 12:25:34 PM Dear Sirs, I am definitely opposed to Fort Collins subsidizing Montava water. Thank you, KJLamport 3702 Sandy Shore Ln Fort Collins From: James Tilmant To: City Leaders Subject: Fwd: Montava Development Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 12:14:56 PM Please do NOT approve the selling of Fort Collins water to the Montava Development at reduced rates or provide any other supplemental funding to Montava. It is outrageous to place additional costs and burdens on existing Fort Collins homeowners for this development. Water is a limited resource to Front Range citizens, the City needs to recognize and acknowledge this, and developments that put further burdens on our water supplies should not be encouraged. Has this development also received a metropolitan taxing district approval as well? Despite over paid and under-performing Atteberry and his Planning Commission’s appetite to give away tax payer’s money for as many developments as possible in Fort Collins, we are very much against metropolitan taxing district approvals. They are nothing but a license for the developers to make outlandish profits, rob the homeowners of money, and require others to have to pay the developer’s cost! Please do not approve any more metropolitan taxing districts! Please advise me whether or not Montava has received Metropolitan Taxing District approval. Thank you. Jim Tilmant 5703 Pebble Beach Court Fort Collins, CO From: Dave Leavitt To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Project Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 11:47:04 AM Please, for the sake of the citizens of Fort Collins and the Poudre River system, refrain from giving handouts of our water to a Texas developer who only has one purpose, to make money at our expense. This disastrous decision was also played out and approved by Colorado Springs City Council years ago with a developer. The city still suffers from it's naive misinformed decision. Thank you for considering my voice and concern. Respectfully, David Leavitt Fort Collins From: JGano @ Gmail To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 11:23:52 AM It is ridiculous to think the City of Fort Collins would consider incurring expenses for its citizens in order to subsidize the cost of water for the construction of the Montava development. There is no long term benefit from this project for current Ft. Collins citizens yet they would have to shoulder the cost. Not enough water, do not build. It is as simple as that. Jim Gano 970-214-5847 4115 Braidwood Dr. Ft. Collins, CO 80524 From: C.Lumar To: City Leaders Subject: Montava - Water and Roads Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 10:22:26 AM I am requesting that you do not make further accomodations to the developer of Montava for cheaper water. Approving such a request is not fair and just to exisiting residents. The costs will have to be passed on to someone and that someone will be the current residents. Take care of your existing citizens, don’t give in because of the pressure of approving this project. This current project, Montava, is just the beginning of a large long-term development. If you give in on water, then you open the door to requests for further subsidies for other parts of the development as the project continues. What else can the developer eek out from the council? If this developer cannot afford the costs involved to develop the property then this is not the right developer for the property. Does the council want to set a precedent of generously subsidzing developers? If you subsidize this one, will you subsidize the next? Will you subsidize all developers or only developers of large projects or include small developers too? What are the rules to get a subsidy such as this? Are there any rules? It is also important that current roads and traffic situations be resolved before issuing any building permits for this subdivision. We need our existing problems with traffic on Timberline and Lemay and with the railroad resolved before adding additional traffic burdens to those area. It is already overburdened. Why would the council make a sacrifice on water costs to get this subdivision started? Why does Ft. Collins need this subdivision? Who does it really benefit? Who is the council representing? The citizens of Fort Collins or the developer? Carolyn Lumar From: Margaret Reek To: City Leaders Subject: Montava development Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 10:07:28 AM The city should not provide any incentives/rate breaks/etc for the proposed Montava development. I don’t believe that such a huge development is in the best interest of the city inhabitants to begin with, much less helping making water more affordable because they think it is too expensive. The city really needs to figure out how to handle the seemingly unchecked growth. Every time you turn around another plot of land is being planted with houses, condos or apartments. Traffic has increased significantly. The overall infrastructure isn’t keeping pace with the influx of people. Let new developments pay their own way and not additionally burden current citizens. Margaret Reek 80526 Margaret From: M Strand To: City Leaders Subject: Please step back from Montava until Traffic and Water Issues are Resolved Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 9:56:31 AM City Council Members, I live on Dayton Drive, right alongside Country Club Road. My wife and I have a toddler and an infant and look forward to a long life in our home. I am an educator with 20 years of service in Poudre School District. I use Country Club in the morning and in the evening for my commute. It is already quite difficult to pull out onto Country Club in the morning. I have to make a rapid acceleration to get into the flow of traffic...a feat that already feels precarious. I can't imagine what this would be like with the additional traffic of Montava residents. As you may know, there is no other way out of our neighborhood. I also travel along Turnberry Road and Timberline multiple times a week to get my children to their grandparents' homes. We are often stuck at freight train traffic as it is. What an impending nightmare should the Montava project go forward. Lastly, I believe Dr. Gary Wockner brings up important points in his recent opinion piece that go beyond his typical concerns of detriments to our natural waterways. I trust your council will consider his reasons for opposition carefully. For these reasons, my family is firmly against the Montava development. Thank you for taking the time to carefully consider the long-term implications of this proposed project. Matt Strand, PhD From: Jason M. Faris To: City Leaders Cc: Michelle Bardino; Daniel Godwin; Katie Nuessly Subject: Montava Development & Water Supply Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 9:51:20 AM Good morning City Council Members I just read the opinion piece from Gary Wockner in the Coloradoan regarding the proposed Montava development. I agree wholeheartedly with his criticism regarding this latest proposal that the development can gain access to the City of Ft Collins water district while existing outside the district itself. Water rates and money aside, the city needs to protect our water supply from overuse. If Montava does not have access to the water it needs or cannot afford the water that is available to them based on the supply that is part of that particular water district, then clearly Montava is not a sustainable growth project. The Ft. Collins City Council should prioritize protecting our supply for long term viability, especially in light of climate change, and recognize that the financial burden of subsidizing a massive growth area like Montava would be irresponsible and a disservice to its residents. Thank you. -- Jason M. Faris 703 Crown Ridge Ln, Unit 2, Fort Collins, CO 80525 From: Jeremy Bair To: City Leaders Subject: Montava; water issue Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 9:34:33 AM Vote "NO" on Montava request for water deal. They're going to make plenty of money on this deal if it goes through. I shouldn't have to pay for their "fair share". Jeremy Bair 970 310 4700 From: Julie Wallin To: City Leaders Subject: Don"t give Fort Collins resident"s water to Montana Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 8:46:54 AM Hello, I want to add my voice to the upcoming decisions about water to the new gigantic Montana housing development. I do not want Fort Collins to provide water to this developer. The Developer should get water for their project from the water authority where the development is being built, and pay the appropriate price for that water. Fort Collin’s water is for Fort Collins. I live in Fort Collins and use water as sparingly as I can so that our city’s water supply is protected for the future. I want my elected officials to honor my efforts and the efforts of other like-minded citizens by saying ‘no’ to developers who “can’t afford” water from their local water district and instead come begging Fort Collins for cheap water. They are out for a cheap deal and a way to line their pockets on the backs of Fort Collins citizens. They made a business decision to build outside of the city water area, and so their water expenses are their problem - not mine. Please protect Fort Collins water for Fort Collins residents. Thanks for considering. Julie Wallin 2819 Michener Drive, Fort Collins From: Jill Hultin To: City Leaders Subject: Montana Application Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 8:35:43 AM Dear City Council: I urge you to deny Montava’s application for water to be subsidized by the tax payers of Fort Collins. We can hardly keep up with the growth as it is. Enough already. Thank you. Jill O Hultin 2807 McKeag Drive Fort Collins, CO. 80526 From: pdu1978@aol.com To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 8:34:34 AM I have just read Gary Wockner's opinion piece and wholly endorse it. I have been in touch with Max Moss(the developer) numerous times by email over the past year asking him how he plans to get water and deal with all the traffic etc.. His answer is precisely nothing. I live in Maplehill and his traffic plan calls for roads that link to the ones through and around my residential area, but his answer is that the new residents will walk and ride bikes, not use cars and shop only in their own farm store. If this is what you are basing your planning on then we need to have a talk. We all know that 4,000 residences mean at least 8,000 people, more likely 12 to 16,000 and 12,000 or more cars plus motorcycles and who knows how many bikes. Who will be walking to the store in a sub zero Colorado winter and who can afford to do their weekly shopping at a farm store?. I have put these questions to Max Moss and seen his traffic plans and the responses have been pretty much a big zero, when pressed he gets pretty annoyed and just says you do not understand, but offers no solutions. He also professes that he is not in it to make money, but to improve the quality of life for the residents of Fort Collins, so the big Texas Developement Company must be a non profit?? Now it is looking as if he wants a break on the rate he pays for the water he needs, if he gets that I want my rate lowered and a rebate for the 8 years I have been paying the Boxelder rate and lower rates going forward. This planned developement seems to be way different from the Mountain Vista subarea future developement plans I was shown when I bought my property in 2011, is it legal to just change the plans? I urge you to rethink this whole fiasco and come up with a plan that takes into account the existing infrastructure, residents, quality of life and limited resources available. Peter Dundee 2469 Marshfield Lane, Fort Collins, 80524 970 682 2656 From: Kristy Hughes To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 8:17:17 AM Dear city council, I’m a resident of Fort Collins and have lived here all my life. I understand that housing affordability is a real problem but I don’t think this development is the answer. I think special districts are a scam that the developers are the only beneficiaries. Also, they should have to pay for water, not the current people who live here through a subsidy. The amount of traffic that that subdivision will produce in an already congested area, will be too much. I think first fix Lemay before you add so much more traffic to that area. Personally, I feel that all the bad doesn’t outweigh what the project could potentially bring to the area. Thanks, Kristy Brandt From: Chuck Shinn To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 8:16:38 AM The opinion piece by Gary Wockner in the Coloradoan expressed my thoughts exactly. I already pay what I consider very high water rates and any development needs to pay the actual cost of all city services. No subsidies! Charles Shinn 1231 Live Oak Ct Fort Collins, CO From: Bill Miller To: City Leaders Subject: Montana water Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 7:43:07 AM Fort Collins should be doing its share to reduce climate change. Montava and their water needs will do exactly the opposite. Say no to Montava while we still can. Fort Collins is changing from a nice small city to a smog filled blade runner nightmare. Please care about the people who already live here by not subsidizing Montava. Bill Miller From: Jim Pisula To: City Leaders Subject: Montana Development Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 7:32:43 AM Mayor and Council, For once I agree with Gary Wockner. While I don’t live in the FC Utilities water service area, I believe it’s a terrible idea to subsidize the development of NE Fort Collins by ratepayers. Let the developers work with the existing utility to reduce access fees or expand resources, or both. FC water customers shouldn’t be forced to subsidize private entities. Thank you, ——- Brenda and Jim Pisula 6255 Eagle Ridge Court Fort Collins, Colo. 80525 P: (970) 420-1211 Sent from my phone. Pardon the typos. Get Outlook for iOS From: Marcus Wiley To: City Leaders Subject: Stop Montava Water Subsidy Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 7:20:28 AM Please respect the quality of life for current citizens and Poudre River habitat by denying subsidies to large scale developers and greedy outside interests. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! From: Lloyd Walker To: City Leaders Subject: Montava water Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 7:15:43 AM Council members I urge you to deny the request for the montava development based on their lack of a secure water supply. They should play by rules set out by elco and obtain their water through them. This issue is all about money and as a Fort Collins water user I object to subsidizing their water needs. Follow the oft repeated policy that development pays its own way. Fort Collins has done a great job of planning for our city water needs and we should continue to carefully manage this precious and limited resource. Thank you Lloyd Walker Lloyd Walker Sent from my iPhone 970.218.4275 Lloyd@engr.colostate.edu From: Christina Pender To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 12:03:02 AM You must represent me, my wonderful Fort Collins community, and the Poudre River - not sprawling new growth and Texas developers asking for subsidies. Growth must pay its own way with strict community standards that limit water use, ease traffic congestion and pollution, and pay to increase our police and fire services. Thanks to Gary Wockner for bringing this to my attention. Christina Pender, (of Bellvue and Fort Collins) From: Karenbwarren To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:21:30 PM Dear Council Members, Please do not support the Montava Project’s request for subsidized water. This is not beneficial to the citizens of Fort Collins and sets a bad precedent. Water is an important commodity that we must protect. This should not be something our City does for a developer. Thank you for your consideration. Regards, Karen Warren Citizen of Fort Collins Sent from my iPhone From: Katherine Duchen Smith To: Eric Sutherland Cc: Wade Troxell; Carrie Daggett; City Leaders; Clay Frickey; Brad Yatabe; Delynn Coldiron; Rebecca Everette; Darin Atteberry; Tom Leeson; Cameron Gloss; max@hf2m.com; IAatcentre@hotmail.com; kayroos1949@yahoo.com; jp@tmharley.com; DPeck@AblazeGroup.com; nansollo@gmail.com; David Beede; camcolee@gmail.com; mktsol@msn.com; Analene Carlisle; Andrea Mihajlov; David Cismoski; Deanna Adams; Dianna French; Dick Easley; Don Homan; Ed Robert; Francie Scolley; Ginger Davila; Goanna Harms; Hunter; Jim and Judy Moore; Jim Salisbury; Kathy Mrocko; Linda Helm; Linda Rager; Michael Gordon; Patty Nichols; Paul Navarre; Quentin Rockwell; Rachel Lee; Ram Oad; Ray Cole; Rita Deike; Roger Cox; Ronnie Owens; Ted Rossin; Ty Easley; Vicki Mayea; Virginia Mohr-Callahan; drsparkman61@yahoo.com; drummond.hrco@gmail.com; lorin@waterwiselandscapes.com; morganbridger@gmail.com; Fred Zipp; Martha Coleman; Rachel Hopper; Tasha Marchant; bsdacctg@boxeldersanitation.org; Raju Jairam; Jim@ushba.com; ERIC; Gib Charles; Sandy; paj109@comcast.net; Gary Wockner Subject: Re: Montava PUD: Lapse of opportunity to preserve argument/evidence Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 10:47:27 PM Wade, We're awaiting your reply as to how this process actually is supposed to work. As longtime residents of our community we feel we are entitled to a timely reply so we have a better understandng of this matter with such enormous potential impact. Thank you, Katherine & Bruce Smith On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 2:29 PM Eric Sutherland <sutherix@yahoo.com> wrote: But Wade, I don't want to participate in the hearing. I want to submit written comments for consideration by the decision makers that will, thereafter, be included in the record on appeal, should there be one. These written comments, BTW, contain more material than might be delivered at the podium in 3 minutes. When must my written comments be submitted? Please answer this very, very basic question. I expect that the hearing will take on the all the characteristics that other kangaroo court hearings I have watched and participated in. Quasi-judicial proceedings are very narrow in terms of the scope of concerns that may be considered by the decision maker. Citizens are never told this. This truth is also largely misunderstood by the decision makers themselves. In the case of the Montava PUD, the proposed Ordinance represents such astounding disregard for the criteria prescribed by law, that I submitted a CORA request just to see if anyone had an idea what the criteria are. The entire situation is conflated by the fact that criteria that is prescribed by law is now scheduled to be amended as soon as it is applied, presumably with the intent that the amendments apply retrospectively. And then the legislative enactment by which the criteria will be amended are resolutions, even though the City Charter unquestionably requires that such legislative enactments be made by ordinance. (This conflict between state statute and City Charter must be resolved by deferring to the Charter. The manner by which the governing body of Home Rule municipality shall conduct its affairs is exclusively a matter of local interest, except for things like requirements for open meetings which you are still threatening to violate.) Hopefully you catch my drift here, Wade. The whole thing reduces to a simple question of how citizens might best protect their legal rights ... and participating in a non-sensical process is not the way to do this. Please answer the question and let us all know what the deadline is for submission of written comments alleging deficiencies in the application. Thanks, Eric On Saturday, January 11, 2020, 01:33:37 PM MST, Wade Troxell <wtroxell@fcgov.com> wrote: Eric: Thank you for your input and sharing your concerned. Please come and participate in the hearing on Tuesday. Regards, Wade Mayor Wade Troxell City of Fort Collins, Colorado 2017 Malcolm Baldrige Award - City of Fort Collins recognized for “an unceasing drive for radical innovation, thoughtful leadership, and operational excellence.” --- With limited exceptions, emails and any files transmitted with them are subject to public disclosure under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA). To promote transparency, emails will be visible in an online archive, unless the sender puts #PRIVATE in the subject line of the email. However, the City of Fort Collins can’t guarantee that any email to or from Council will remain private under CORA. --- Sent from my iPhone On Jan 11, 2020, at 11:24 AM, Eric Sutherland <sutherix@yahoo.com> wrote: W͗ade, Could you simply tell the good people of Fort Collins when their arguments and evidence regarding the Montava PUD must be preserved in the record in order to be considered by the district court on appeal. The Montava PUD application is ridiculously deficient. I hit one dozen grounds for overturning an approval on appeal and then just stopped. The only question I have is when the argument and evidence needs to be presented to the city in order to be included in the record on appeal ... if it passes. As you know, City Council is completely incompetent when acting in a quasi-judicial capacity. Any arguments alleging a legal deficiency are quickly referred to the City Attorney. The result is always the same: an allegation that the requirements of law are being disregarded is always incorrect, per Carrie Daggett. She could be replaced with a electronically recorded message for this purpose. Consequently, there is no reason to attempt to persuade Council. The only way for citizens of Fort Collins to protect their rights under law is to ensure that the record of proceeding contains sufficient argument for certiorari review. So tell us, when do arguments need to be preserved for appeal? I have included the email addresses of some folks that may also want to know this information. The process is confusing. Two readings of an ordinance. Three amendments to the legal criteria that Council is supposed to apply to the facts of the application are being made immediately after consideration of first reading. No public hearing has been indicated or noticed for second reading. No one, myself included, can be certain when the deadline for submission of material to be included in the record on appeal will occur. Please clarify this important detail. Eric Sutherland On Friday, January 10, 2020, 10:20:59 AM MST, Eric Sutherland <sutherix@yahoo.com> wrote: Ms. Dagget and city officials, Please provide the public with the city's position on the time that it believes citizens opportunity to preserve argument and evidence in the record regarding the Montava PUD approval lapses. This question essentially asks whether or not opponents or proponents of the PUD application must preserve argument and evidence by no later than the close of the public hearing on first reading, or whether argument and evidence that is received by the decision makers no later than commencement of second reading of the Ordinance will, from the city's perspective, be deemed to have been timely filed for purposes of certiorari review. Because the City itself will compile and transmit the record in the event of an appeal, I believe it would be good for the public interest to have this specific question answered as soon as possible. I request that this question be answered by the end of today, Friday, Jan. 10th, 2020. Eric Sutherland From: Nathan Bloomer To: City Leaders; gary.wockner@savethepoudre.org Subject: I say no to subsidizing water costs for montava Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 10:07:14 PM Let growth pay it's way not the citizens. This is ridiculous I've lived here for 31 years and never has anyone charged me less for my business or to live n move here. Build the resivours first secure the water and stop the silliness. You don't want to damn the poudre for the left but want to appease the right and build more sticking us in the middle w the costs of not saying no to either. So why not just say yes we are building 2 new resivours and are charging the new/last ones to arrive w with the bill. Once they stop coming then it costs to much otherwise we are just leaving money on the table. Nate Bloomer 9702185354 From: Marilyn Morgan To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 9:51:04 PM To the City Council of Fort Collins; It is not the responsibility of the City or the current residents to subsidize this planned development. Water is and always has been in limited supply in this part of the world. The City Council is responsible for making this city a great place to live for those who already live here, and not make them pay for those who wish to live here. An additional 4,000 homes and 12,000 people in that area is a very poor strategic plan. The increased traffic alone is impossible to imagine. There is not the infrastructure to support that much additional traffic in that area of town. This developer is only looking to make a heafty profit from the current status of Fort Collins as a very desirable place to live. Once the development is complete, they will return to Texas and leave those of us who currently live here here to pay the price. I was born (1953) and raised in this town and have seen enourmous change. Much of it has been very good, but Montava is a really bad idea. For many significant reasons. Please, do not put the burden of the cost of this poorly thought out developement on the current residents of Fort Collins and Latimer County. Regards, Marilyn Morgan 317 Aspen Ridge Drive Fort Collins, CO 80524 From: Martha Kunter To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 9:45:06 PM Be careful with water. I believe they need to buy own water Thanks From: Janice Lynne To: City Leaders Subject: Water for Montana Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 9:37:22 PM Dear City Leaders - We know that Montava has been admired as a model city project. We agree that there is much to admire about how this project has been conceived. Now, Montava developers are asking the city for water so they can lower the price of it, and hence lower their costs for their very large development. We don’t believe that the city should incentivize development that doesn’t pay for itself. It’s beginning to look like this turn of events could increase the current cost and demand for water and contribute to the rising cost of living and current quality of life in Fort Collins. Now that we are retired, after living and working here for thirty four years, we just can’t afford to add to the current accelerating cost of living of Fort Collins. We would like to add that we personally don’t believe this arid land will sustain the massive development and huge increases of population that the city projects will occur. In our view such factors as climate change and the casino capitalism that has captured our financial system, will continue to put pressure on us to make wise decisions at all levels based on criteria other than the status quo. An example of a status quo project is the Foothills Mall, which we were personally against. Now we're seeing that rents at the mall are so high that some businesses are struggling or having to close their doors. People have shifted to buying online and as a friend said, she would not drive down to the mall just for dinner. In consideration of our above concerns we ask that you refuse the Montava developers request for city water to save them and/or new homeowners money and, therefore, start a trend of opening the tap for expanding development that does not benefit current city residents. Thank you, Janice Lynne and Tom Hoehn 218 S. Washington Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80521 From: Terry Krause To: City Leaders Subject: Montava project Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 8:00:49 PM Montava’s growth will bring sprawl, traffic congestion, air pollution, more waste, more climate-change causing greenhouse gas emissions, more strain on city infrastructure, and more strain on all city programs and services. Montava is seeking a financial benefit because they say they can’t afford the cost of water for their development, as well as asking to increase the diversion and destruction of the Poudre River, which provides water to Fort Collins. Please represent the people of Fort Collins and reject this proposal. From: Erin Ellis To: City Leaders Subject: No Montava Now Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 7:56:40 PM The proposed Montava development would not be good for our community. My main concern is with the infrastructure. The traffic in this part of Fort Collins and Larimer County is already greatly challenged. There are basically four North and South roads (I-25, Timberline, Lemay and College) and only one real East to West road in Mountain Vista / Country Club. It is about logistics. We just can't get more traffic to work safely without some significant changes. We live on Lakeview Drive. Already it can be very difficult and dangerous to turn left / west onto Country Club. This is true for all the streets connecting with Country Club between Lakeview and Lemay. West is where shopping, town, business and connections happen. New residents will also head west to get to these same resources. The intersection at the entrance to the Country Club is where the chaos begins. It is an awkward three way stop without sidewalks or room to expand to more lanes. Once automobiles make it past the stop they fly off (above the 30 mph speed limit) around Long Pond. As they travel towards the four way stop at Lemay they create a steady stream of paced traffic that makes it very difficult to safely time a left turn on Lemay. We can turn East and work our way over to Timberline (which the other traffic is already avoiding). Timberline is the next issue. The left turn onto Mountain Vista when heading north is the first issue. It is very dangerous at times. I assume a light is in the works to alleviate this. The intersection at Timberline and Vine is the main problem area. The four way stop combined with the railroad crossing is a major bottleneck that already has residents avoiding it (thus why residents head west on Country Club). The intersection at Lemay and Vine is equally as bad. There is a proposed overpass for this intersection that is very questionable for viability and whether it will really help with all the future traffic. The theoretical extension of Turnberry is even more problematic. If it is realistic, it should be solved first. As mentioned above, the problematic intersections are numerous. It is not a question of solving one of these, but all of these, before significant growth occurs. Montava would double the density in this area. The infrastructure around here was not designed to effectively handle the current density, much less twice as much. This is a life safety issue, not just a quality of life issue. And then of course, there is the water matter. Please solve all these before significant growth is permitted. Sincerely, Erin and Melisa Ellis 970.218.5057 1725 Lakeview Drive Fort Collins, CO 80524 From: debarenda To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Project Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 7:28:17 PM Hello, I am a consumer of the East Larimer County Water District. Even though we may be in need of more development, there has to be a smart and realistic solution to the basic needs of this project. The Montava project will cause further destruction by modifications that will need to be done in order to make it feasible for them to have water at a cost effective rate. I feel it is imperative not to pass the cost of this onto current consumers of City of Fort Collins water or other services. Thank you for your time and consideration Barbara From: Barela Family To: City Leaders Subject: [WARNING: Possible Scam Fraud] Montava Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 7:11:28 PM WARNING: Your email security system has determined the message below may be a potential threat. The sender may trick victims into passing bad checks on their behalf. If you do not know the sender or cannot verify the integrity of the message, please do not respond or click on links in the message. Depending on the security settings, clickable URLs may have been modified to provide additional security. Greetings, Fort Collins City Council, I am writing to request that you do NOT approve the Montava development application. As Fort Collins residents, my husband and I have actively sought ways to mitigate the rising costs of utilities. Three years ago, we invested in solar panels for our home. We also replaced our home's original furnace with a more efficient furnace to reduce our energy consumption. None of this was cheap but we felt good about it because, not only would we be doing something good for the planet, but we would also reduce our utilities bill. And for a while, we did enjoy a reduced bill. Then with restructuring of the billing procedures for city utilities, suddenly our utility bills were higher through no fault of our own nor any change in our usage patterns. Talk about frustrating! So, last year, we began renovating our landscape to drastically reduce our water usage. Here we are making costly renovations in hopes of reducing our water usage only to hear that you are considering approval to an out-of-state developer who can't create a develpment budget that includes obvious and predictable costs?? Your approval of this development will certainly result in costs being passed on to Fort Collins residents causing our utility costs to rise yet again!? I'm so disappointed and beyond frustrated. My husband and I grew up here and are proud to call Fort Collins our hometown. We love Fort Collins but have been frustrated in the amount of development that has truly changed the feel of our beloved hometown. Perhaps Montava needs to scale back their development plans in order to factor in the cost of buying water from ELCO. Or better yet, perhaps Fort Collins isn't the right fit for Montava at all. Slow down this growth explosion to a manageable pace and, instead of worrying about the citizens who don't live here yet, please put more energy into taking care of the citizens who are already here. We love it here and we are doing everything we can to be able to continue to afford living here. Sincerely, Mary and Scott Barela From: Robert Marschke To: City Leaders Subject: From Dr. Robert Marschke re: Infrastructure needed for Montava Development Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 5:37:04 PM Dear ladies and gentlemen; I've recently had knee surgery, and I'll likely be unable to attend the City Council meeting on 1/14/20. As a resident of Fort Collins in zip code 80524 I've been very discouraged by the congestion of auto traffic on Lemay Avenue and other streets near my home. I'm sending this email message to you to emphasize the critical importance of completing street improvements and other infrastructure improvements before construction on the Montava residential project begins. Thank you for your time and kind consideration of this email message. Sincerely, Robert F. Marschke, Jr., M.D. 1836 Ridgecrest Drive Fort Collins, CO 80524 Cell phone and text messaging: 970-213-6396 From: Kara McIver To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 4:08:57 PM Please vote no on this project. https://www.coloradoan.com/story/opinion/2020/01/11/fort-collins-shouldnt-give-montava- developer-our-water-opinion/4433929002/ Thanks, Kara McIver 3500 Rolling Green Dr., B4 Fort Collins, co 80525 Kara McIver she/her/hers apologies for typos and brevity, this email is coming from my phone. From: Jul To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Water Issue Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 4:04:51 PM To Our Fort Collins City Leaders, Expansion and development in Fort Collins has a long history of benefiting newcomers while applying financial pressure and burdens unto the current and long-standing residents of FoCo. So I'll politely and strongly suggest that you consider the people you represent when making a decision to subject them to further financial burden of covering a subsidy on water to the planned Montava project location. There is no argument on the basis of rate, size of financial burden, or kindness being done unto those who will inhabit the Montava project by throwing the costs of subsidized water at current Fort Collins residents. Do no join the ever-growing trend of succumbing to the will of corporate agendas and selling out your constituents for the whatever sake makes that acceptable to so many. Make a statement against this Montava lunacy and side with your people. Sincerely, Julian Inscho From: k.hardes@yahoo.com To: City Leaders Subject: Say NO to Montava Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 3:06:37 PM Fort Collins city leaders, I am writing to request that you deny giving the Montava development any subsidy in the way of water supplies. Any new development needs to pay it's own way, not be subsidized by the city...WE DON'T NEED MORE RESIDENTS!!! The congestion in the city has steadily gotten worse in the 25 years that I have lived here and I don't see it getting any better any time soon. Please don't give subsidies in any form to bring more people to our much loved city! Thanks for your consideration. Keith Hardes 2455 Hampshire Sq Fort Collins, CO 80526 From: Eric Sutherland To: Wade Troxell Cc: Carrie Daggett; City Leaders; Clay Frickey; Brad Yatabe; Delynn Coldiron; Rebecca Everette; Darin Atteberry; Tom Leeson; Cameron Gloss; max@hf2m.com; IAatcentre@hotmail.com; kayroos1949@yahoo.com; jp@tmharley.com; DPeck@AblazeGroup.com; nansollo@gmail.com; David Beede; camcolee@gmail.com; mktsol@msn.com; Analene Carlisle; Andrea Mihajlov; David Cismoski; Deanna Adams; Dianna French; Dick Easley; Don Homan; Ed Robert; Francie Scolley; Ginger Davila; Goanna Harms; Hunter; Jim and Judy Moore; Jim Salisbury; Kathie and Bruce Smith; Kathy Mrocko; Linda Helm; Linda Rager; Michael Gordon; Patty Nichols; Paul Navarre; Quentin Rockwell; Rachel Lee; Ram Oad; Ray Cole; Rita Deike; Roger Cox; Ronnie Owens; Ted Rossin; Ty Easley; Vicki Mayea; Virginia Mohr-Callahan; drsparkman61@yahoo.com; drummond.hrco@gmail.com; lorin@waterwiselandscapes.com; morganbridger@gmail.com; Fred Zipp; Martha Coleman; Rachel Hopper; Tasha Marchant; bsdacctg@boxeldersanitation.org; Raju Jairam; Jim@ushba.com; ERIC; Gib Charles; Sandy; paj109@comcast.net; Gary Wockner Subject: Re: Montava PUD: Lapse of opportunity to preserve argument/evidence Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 2:30:06 PM But Wade, I don't want to participate in the hearing. I want to submit written comments for consideration by the decision makers that will, thereafter, be included in the record on appeal, should there be one. These written comments, BTW, contain more material than might be delivered at the podium in 3 minutes. When must my written comments be submitted? Please answer this very, very basic question. I expect that the hearing will take on the all the characteristics that other kangaroo court hearings I have watched and participated in. Quasi-judicial proceedings are very narrow in terms of the scope of concerns that may be considered by the decision maker. Citizens are never told this. This truth is also largely misunderstood by the decision makers themselves. In the case of the Montava PUD, the proposed Ordinance represents such astounding disregard for the criteria prescribed by law, that I submitted a CORA request just to see if anyone had an idea what the criteria are. The entire situation is conflated by the fact that criteria that is prescribed by law is now scheduled to be amended as soon as it is applied, presumably with the intent that the amendments apply retrospectively. And then the legislative enactment by which the criteria will be amended are resolutions, even though the City Charter unquestionably requires that such legislative enactments be made by ordinance. (This conflict between state statute and City Charter must be resolved by deferring to the Charter. The manner by which the governing body of Home Rule municipality shall conduct its affairs is exclusively a matter of local interest, except for things like requirements for open meetings which you are still threatening to violate.) Hopefully you catch my drift here, Wade. The whole thing reduces to a simple question of how citizens might best protect their legal rights ... and participating in a non-sensical process is not the way to do this. Please answer the question and let us all know what the deadline is for submission of written comments alleging deficiencies in the application. Thanks, Eric On Saturday, January 11, 2020, 01:33:37 PM MST, Wade Troxell <wtroxell@fcgov.com> wrote: Eric: Thank you for your input and sharing your concerned. Please come and participate in the hearing on Tuesday. Regards, Wade Mayor Wade Troxell City of Fort Collins, Colorado 2017 Malcolm Baldrige Award - City of Fort Collins recognized for “an unceasing drive for radical innovation, thoughtful leadership, and operational excellence.” --- With limited exceptions, emails and any files transmitted with them are subject to public disclosure under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA). To promote transparency, emails will be visible in an online archive, unless the sender puts #PRIVATE in the subject line of the email. However, the City of Fort Collins can’t guarantee that any email to or from Council will remain private under CORA. --- Sent from my iPhone On Jan 11, 2020, at 11:24 AM, Eric Sutherland <sutherix@yahoo.com> wrote: W͗ade, Could you simply tell the good people of Fort Collins when their arguments and evidence regarding the Montava PUD must be preserved in the record in order to be considered by the district court on appeal. The Montava PUD application is ridiculously deficient. I hit one dozen grounds for overturning an approval on appeal and then just stopped. The only question I have is when the argument and evidence needs to be presented to the city in order to be included in the record on appeal ... if it passes. As you know, City Council is completely incompetent when acting in a quasi-judicial capacity. Any arguments alleging a legal deficiency are quickly referred to the City Attorney. The result is always the same: an allegation that the requirements of law are being disregarded is always incorrect, per Carrie Daggett. She could be replaced with a electronically recorded message for this purpose. Consequently, there is no reason to attempt to persuade Council. The only way for citizens of Fort Collins to protect their rights under law is to ensure that the record of proceeding contains sufficient argument for certiorari review. So tell us, when do arguments need to be preserved for appeal? I have included the email addresses of some folks that may also want to know this information. The process is confusing. Two readings of an ordinance. Three amendments to the legal criteria that Council is supposed to apply to the facts of the application are being made immediately after consideration of first reading. No public hearing has been indicated or noticed for second reading. No one, myself included, can be certain when the deadline for submission of material to be included in the record on appeal will occur. Please clarify this important detail. Eric Sutherland On Friday, January 10, 2020, 10:20:59 AM MST, Eric Sutherland <sutherix@yahoo.com> wrote: Ms. Dagget and city officials, Please provide the public with the city's position on the time that it believes citizens opportunity to preserve argument and evidence in the record regarding the Montava PUD approval lapses. This question essentially asks whether or not opponents or proponents of the PUD application must preserve argument and evidence by no later than the close of the public hearing on first reading, or whether argument and evidence that is received by the decision makers no later than commencement of second reading of the Ordinance will, from the city's perspective, be deemed to have been timely filed for purposes of certiorari review. Because the City itself will compile and transmit the record in the event of an appeal, I believe it would be good for the public interest to have this specific question answered as soon as possible. I request that this question be answered by the end of today, Friday, Jan. 10th, 2020. Eric Sutherland From: Cheryl To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 2:12:15 PM Gary Wockner’s opinion in the Coloradoan presented several valid and thoughtful points. I do not know Gary, but felt compelled to appeal to our City Council about the proposed Montava project. Fort Collins is a desirable place to live and I understand why developers want to come here and build their huge money-making developments, however, Fort Collins and Colorado in general have limited natural resources. Development needs to pay its own way. New development needs to be a benefit to our society, not a drain on it. Our utility rates continue to climb yearly and many in this town are barely able to make ends meet. Now this developer wants to circumvent the utility (utilities) his subdivision falls within and expects Fort Collins and its citizens to provide him with cheaper alternatives. This is not fair to the citizens who work, have worked, and continue to work to make Fort Collins the city it is. It is not right or just for a developer to expect special privileges. We, as citizens, pay what is expected of us in order to live here. Developers need to respect our area and the boundaries of the various utility companies and should not even be asking Fort Collins to step outside their boundary and supply him cheaper water. The Front Range, and that includes Fort Collins, already has a water deficit most years. We endure droughts and higher and higher water costs to be able to meet the needs of the current citizens. How can stressing our resources further be beneficial? Pay the going rate in the area selected to develop. Do not expect the citizens of Fort Collins to fund your development in any way. Besides the initial costs of installing lines and equipment there are future costs for repair, maintenance, and upgrades as well as newer and bigger plants being needed at some point. Meeting this developers demands would be creating a never- ending revolving door. Additionally, it has been reported that this developer wants Fort Collins to provide sewer service because it is cheaper than Boxelder. Again, the developer chose an area not served by Fort Collins. Developers should not expect Fort Collins to step on toes of other utilities just to save some money. The districts are set-up to afford opportunities for growth for each one in the area. Fort Collins does not have the right, nor should they take liberties, to undercut these other utility providers. What will this developer or others down the road ask for next? Fort Collins does not need the additional traffic, pollution, or strain on our natural resources and infrastructure that his proposed subdivision is sure to bring. I (we) ask the City Council members to please consider the citizens they represent and this beautiful area we call home and vote not to step outside our utility boundaries to meet this developer's or any developer's request. We must take steps now to preserve the future of our area. Sincerely, Cheryl L Hyde Anthony D Hyde From: Bill King To: City Leaders Subject: MONTAVA Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 2:05:26 PM I am sending you this email regarding the pending Montava development project. I do not support using tax payer money to financially support this development. I have seen the City Council respond to citizen input in the past and hope they will do so regarding this issue. The City Council represents the citizens of Fort Collins interest, not a Texas developer. I reside in Councilman Summers district, District III. See you on the evening of the 14th….. JW King, Jr. 6319 Victoria Road Fort Collins, CO 240/997-9325 jwkingjr2027@yahoo.com From: Karen Miller To: City Leaders Cc: Bill Email Subject: water for Montava Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 1:42:18 PM Fort Collins should be doing its share to reduce climate change. Montava and their water needs will do exactly the opposite. Say no to Montava while we still can. Fort Collins is changing from a nice small city to a smog filled blade runner nightmare. Please care about the people who already live here by not subsidizing Montava. From: brndnann@aol.com To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Development Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 1:32:40 PM Dear Council members, I am a resident of District One in Northeast Fort Collins. I have followed with interest the neighborhood discussions on Nextdoor about increased traffic on County Club, and, more recently, the discussion of the Montava housing development plan. Today I read an opinion piece in the Coloradoan about giving subsidized water rights from the City of Fort Collins to the private developers of Montava. I am completely opposed to this. Additionally, I wish that the City would rely more on their own Social Sustainability Department to take the lead on affordable housing. I am interested in more affordable housing for deserving residents who are currently having difficulty finding housing, if and only if, the projects are managed by the city for the true benefit of folks who cannot find affordable housing options. At the hearing on the Hughes sight, I was dismayed to learn that even though developers may propose to have certain units set aside as affordable housing, there seems to be no way to enforce developers to follow through on their promises. Thank you for your work on behalf of the citizens of Fort Collins, and, I plead with you, do not abandon the concerns of current citizens in lieu of helping out-of-state developers who really care little about the long-term problems facing Fort Collins residents. Sincerely, Ann Brandon 601-259-4190 601 Agape Way Fort Collins, CO 80524 From: Nina Forsyth To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 12:36:26 PM Dear leaders, My name is Nina Forsyth and I've been a resident for the past 6 years in Fort Collins. I have been reading about the new development called Montava recently and I am writing to express concern. First, I am concerned that this new development will bring even more traffic and too many people to our home which already feels like it is bursting at the seams. If we can't afford to expand i25, then it seems absurd to increase our traffic problem before widening the highway. Second, water is a scarce resource. Considering the climate crisis, we have to protect our water but still remember to keep our rivers healthy by avoiding dams. We don't have the surplus of water to allow Fort Collins water to go to this development. Current residents of Fort Collins should not be burdened with this extra cost. Not only this, but our air quality has been decreasing because of all of the development, traffic, and fracking. We simply don't have the resources to provide for a development as large as Montava because we haven't even figured out how to make our own home clean and healthy. In my opinion, the approval of this development would demonstrate a lack of care for the current residents. Our city is amazing and I've loved living here, but it is already getting too crowded and too expensive. If we are going to develop, we should consider how we can make our current neighborhoods more conducive to meeting climate goals. I appreciated the vision of Montava to be an agri-urban community. However, we don't need a new development to do this. I love how accessible buying from local farmers is currently, but of course it can be expanded. We can enable our farmers in greater capacities and educate our citizens on why it is important to shop locally instead of at walmart, sprouts, or king soopers. We can do more to make our current developments more environmentally friendly and also more affordable. Please consider the long-term effects of Montava before approving the site, or at least before letting them use our water. I would be very disappointed if this new development were added to the burden of current energy and water use. Kind Regards, Nina From: Stu Cook To: City Leaders Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 12:07:40 PM Dear City Council members, I couldn't agree more with the opinion article in the Fort Collins Coloradoan today. It is your responsibility as council members to represent citizen interests first and foremost. Entertaining some unreasonable request from a multimillion-dollar development organization is against our interests and the future of the Fort Collins area. Please remember, you are beholden to the citizens and taxpayers of this community, not an outside corporation asking for a damaging precedent-setting exception. Respectfully, Stuart Cook From: klhsfbookworm To: City Leaders Subject: Please say no to Montana. Our rates are high now. Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:08:06 AM Sent from Samsung tablet From: Kathleen Riepe To: City Leaders Subject: Montana NO! Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 10:58:10 AM Please keep the quality of life for those who already live in Fort Collins. DO Not approve the Montava development. We don’t need more people. The only folks who benefit from that are developers and mortgage companies. The cost of providing water and services to that many more people is not worth it for the majority of residents. Thank you, Kathleen Riepe 1509 Front Nine Drive Fort Collins From: Laurie Miale To: City Leaders Subject: Say to to Montavo Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 10:31:51 AM I am writing to voice my opposition to providing Fort Collins water to this developer. Please put the current residents Of Fort Collins as your Priority. We don’t need the sprawl Laurie Hutton Sent from my iPhone From: Gary Wockner To: City Leaders Subject: Save The Poudre Comment: "Don"t Give Montava Our Water" Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 10:12:04 AM Hi Fort Collins City Council, Save The Poudre has taken a position on the Montava project, which will be considered at your Jan 14th meeting. We wrote it as a column just posted in the Coloradoan. I paste the column in below, but ask you not to share it so as to not violate the Coloradoan's paywall. Link: https://www.coloradoan.com/story/opinion/2020/01/11/fort-collins-shouldnt-give- montava-developer-our-water-opinion/4433929002/ Thank you for considering our input. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions. Gary Wockner, Director, Save The Poudre DON'T GIVE OUR WATER TO MONTAVA From where I stand, the massive proposed new development of nearly 4,000 houses (and about 12,000 people) — the “Montava” project — in northeast Fort Collins near the Budweiser facility has hit a snag: water. The Montava developer — a corporation based in Texas — has publicly stated that they don’t have access to “affordable water” and they can’t afford to buy it from the water district that supplies water to that area, the East Larimer County Water District (ELCO). So, in effect, they are asking the city of Fort Collins to subsidize them and provide them with water at a much cheaper rate. On Jan. 14, the Fort Collins City Council is scheduled to review the Montava application for its new development. We encourage the council to say “no” to Montava. First, growth must pay its own way, not be subsidized and fueled by current city ratepayers. If you live in the Fort Collins Water Utility service area, you should not have your water rates — or any rates, taxes, and fees — increased because of growth. Second, extending the city’s valuable water supply outside of its designated service area is a bad precedent. If our water portfolio is offered to Montava, other developers will knock on the same door and our ratepayers will be adversely affected. With all the proposed and predicted growth in the area, this precedent could be a never-ending water-supply-and-subsidy fiasco for Fort Collins ratepayers. Third, city ratepayers already have a huge monkey on their backs with the proposed $125 million expenditure to expand Halligan Reservoir northwest of Fort Collins on the North Fork of the Poudre River. Adding more developments needing even more water — especially sprawling masses like Montava — just increases the likelihood that more river-destroying dams will be proposed, costing more hundreds of millions of dollars. Finally, the City Council is supposed to represent the citizens of Fort Collins, not some developer or people who might want to live here in the future. This development — as well as its problem with affordable water — is not the city’s nor the citizens’ problem. In fact, if the city were to accept any new development, the question should be: “What benefit does this development provide to current citizens?” It shouldn’t be: “What benefit can the current citizens provide to this development?” Montava’s growth will bring sprawl, traffic congestion, air pollution, more waste, more climate-change causing greenhouse gas emissions, more strain on city infrastructure, and more strain on all city programs and services. And now they’re seeking a financial benefit because they say they can’t afford the cost of water for their development, as well as asking to increase the diversion and destruction of the Poudre River, which provides water to Fort Collins. This Montava project is obviously half-baked. You can send an email to the City Council at cityleaders@fcgov.com. You can also show up at the council meeting on Jan. 14. Tell the council to represent you and the Poudre River, not sprawling new growth and Texas developers asking for subsidies. Gary Wockner is director of Save The Poudre and a Fort Collins Utilities ratepayer. Contact him at Gary.Wockner@SaveThePoudre.org -- Gary Wockner, PhD, Director Save The Poudre: Poudre Waterkeeper Author: "River Warrior: Fighting to Protect the World's Rivers" (2016) PO Box 20, Fort Collins, CO 80522 http://savethepoudre.org http://www.facebook.com/SaveThePoudre https://twitter.com/savethepoudre 970-218-8310 From: Delynn Coldiron To: Delynn Coldiron Subject: New development Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 2:04:12 PM I am a long time resident of Fort Collins having previously lived on Locust Street. It has been interesting to see, and feel the effects, of Fort Collins growing from a small town into a major city. We are now to the point of discussing what will happen with the land which was previously the stadium. I think the plan for less density and more open space will be of a benefit. However, I am totally opposed to the city (us) subsidizing wager for the new development! If a company wants the development and rake in the profits then it is only fair they pay the necessary price. It is NOT fair that I would have to pay more utility costs for them to make a profit. Water is a limited resource.....my grandfather was city engineer of Denver (Peter O’Brian) and a hundred years ago he was vigilant about protecting the water rights in Colorado. There will be thousands of homes in this new development....we should NOT subsidize the cost. I am on a fixed income and Fort Collins is already an expensive place to live. Do not pass on more subsidized costs to me so these developers will make more money. I will be watching how each of you vote. Thank you for your attention. Ellen Willis Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad From: Rebecca Everette To: Clay Frickey; Delynn Coldiron; Sara Gonzales Subject: FW: New Comcate eFM case: Planning>Planning (you are owner) Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 2:54:10 PM For the Montava record. Rebecca Everette Development Review Manager | City of Fort Collins reverette@fcgov.com | 970.416.2625 direct -----Original Message----- From: accessfortcollins=fcgov.com@mg.comcate.com <accessfortcollins=fcgov.com@mg.comcate.com> On Behalf Of City of Fort Collins Sent: Monday, January 13, 2020 12:10 PM To: Rebecca Everette <reverette@fcgov.com> Subject: New Comcate eFM case: Planning>Planning (you are owner) Case ID#: 53112 Case Detail page: https://clients.comcate.com/reps/caseDetail.php?ag=150&id=1548268 Topic>Subtopic: Planning>Planning Case Location: Action that triggered this email: Case created Customer: Anonymous Owner: Rebecca Everette Date case was created (Days outstanding): 01/13/2020 (-0) Your role on this case: Primary Owner Customer request (only first sentences): I am very opposed to granting Montava any help in their projected project which they admit they cannot afford FOCO water! This is a recipe for disaster. Please think about our healthy community eco system and traffic implications. Thank you for your consideration. You can also access your account by going to the employee home page and entering your username and password. From: Diana Rupp To: City Leaders Subject: No to Montava and subsidized water Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 2:49:28 PM Dear Fort Collins City Council members: As a homeowner in southeast Fort Collins, I am writing to express my strong opposition to the request by the Texas-based Montava development for the city to provide water at subsidized rates to supply its proposed development. Not only would we, the current ratepayers, end up paying for this out of our own pockets, the idea would set a dangerous precedent for future developers, who would almost certainly seek the same deal for themselves. Our beautiful city lies in an area of limited water resources. We simply cannot afford to build more homes and businesses than our water supply can handle, and this must be taken into account before approving any new development. As our City Council, your responsibility is to the citizens of Fort Collins, not to some out-of-state developer. Please tell the Montava developers that the answer to their request for subsidized water is a firm and incontrovertible "no." Diana Rupp 2230 Stonegate Dr. Fort Collins, CO 80525 From: Scott Rupp To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 3:17:37 PM I urge the City Council to reject subsidizing the planned Montava development by selling Fort Collins' water. Fort Collins residents should not be on the hook for the added costs and added demands on our water supply. We need to protect the Poudre River, our most valuable natural resource, and put a stop to the rampant development that's hurting our quality of life and jeopardizing our future water supplies. Scott Rupp 2230 Stonegate Drive Fort Collins, 80525 From: John W. Green To: City Leaders Subject: Fw: Public/Private Development Cooperation on Montava Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 1:37:28 PM From: John W. Green Sent: Monday, January 13, 2020 12:15 PM To: cityleaderfs@fcgov.com ; bocc@larimer.org Subject: Public/Private Development Cooperation on Montava To Fort Collins City Council Members and Larimer County Board of Commissioners: First of all, let me remind you that you represent all residents impacted by the Montava development, not just the developers, very few of whom probably live in the area of the development. As a resident of this area for the past 44 years, I have elected you and your predecessors to represent me in managing the problems caused by major developments such as this. I am a Regional Economist. I have taught at UNC, CSU, Mines and several other universities as guest lecturer. I wrote economic columns for the Northern Colorado Business Report and presented annual economic outlooks for 13 years. I have had many national and local clients in a consulting capacity. I still currently have multiple real estate development and bank clients for whom I produce quarterly economic forecasts. I understand the real estate development market. I know that elected representatives and developers can cooperate if each side is willing. And I know that our elected representatives (you) have the ultimate power. And you can use it wisely. So, let’s cooperate. Montava is proposing 4,000 residents over their buildout period. That will be a burden on local infrastructure. So, let’s stage that buildout to alleviate the burden. Take the following actions: 1) Permit only 500 residences before a big box grocery store begins construction. And a gas station complex (example: King Soopers on North College). And a fast food outlet or three. You have the power to demand this of the developer and to control the number of housing permits granted. We’re assuming that the developer will have completed all the internal infrastructure to accommodate this stage. The developer will be more than willing to help meet this requirement if it affects the speed at which it can recoup its investment. 2) Don’t walk all over Boxelder Water District. Come to an accommodation: merger, joint operating agreement, third-part management, be creative. After all, it was the City that bent the rules to accommodate the Bud factory and inserted itself into the Boxelder Water District and who now wants the service and tax base created by Montava. 3) Commit the city/county to some level of pre-Montava infrastructure development. Bond it if you need to. And complete it before more than 500 residences are permitted. Ask the developer to participate if he wants more permits. It’s easy to extend Turnberry south to connect to Vine. Connect Suniga Road from Turnberry to College. These are easy roads to build. That would demonstrate good faith on the part of the City/County to partially solve the CClub Road traffic problems emanating from the Montava development. Remember, all the sand and gravel trucks servicing the Montava development will use CClub Road to get from the Poudre River sand/gravel supply to the development. That will already create a burden on CClub Road. Think about the area residents who have been supporting the County and the City with their taxes for many years. Protect those people before protecting the profits of yet another developer, who may not even be local. John W. Green, PhD Regional Economist 2214 Franklin Road Fort Collins, CO From: Robert Russell To: City Leaders Subject: Montava? NO! Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 3:36:40 PM I agree with Fort Collins shouldn't give Montava developer our water The developer should pay full price for their water. Their water should not be subsidized by the current citizens of Fort Collins SAY NO to the current plan for Montana Russell Gary Wockner Published 8:00 a.m. MT Jan. 11, 2020 | Updated 11:25 a.m. MT Jan. 13, 2020 From: Suzanne Wilson To: City Leaders Subject: Water for Montava Development Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 4:14:56 PM Dear City Leaders, Please consider not extending Fort Collins water outside its designated area at Montava’s request. It is Montava’s responsibility to provide water for this huge project, not Fort Collins’s responsibility. Cache la Poudre water must be conserved for Fort Collins residents and businesses and for the wildlife and trees along the river. Respectfully, Suzanne Wilson From: TIM FECTEAU To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 9:07:29 AM Dear City Council, Please keep the citizens of Fort Collins welfare a priority over a land developer. Developers should pay for any financial and resources impact a new development has on the city. We should not be paying them to make a profit on their development and giving them water. Charge them for the reservoir improvements. If their development cannot pay for their water and what ever else they require to make money they should not be here. As a property owner and utility customer I do not want to subsidize there project and profits. DO THE RIGHT THING!!!!! Regards, Tim Fecteau -- Tim Fecteau 1749 Deweese St Fort Collins, Co 80526 Cell 970 430 6894 From: Joni Gunn To: City Leaders Subject: No to Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 8:55:02 AM Fort Collins does not need this burden. No to Texas developers coming here. Joni Gunn Fort Collins From: John Schulz To: City Leaders Subject: Montava development Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 9:11:13 AM I urge you not to approve providing water for the Montava development. In my opinion this proposal is wrong on several levels. John Schulz 3754 Carrington Road Sent from my iPad From: Lisa Aulwurm To: City Leaders Subject: Don’t Give Away Our Water!!! Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 8:27:38 AM Dear Mayor and City Council, Do NOT subsidize growth on the backs of current rate payers... growth should pay its own way. No way should you vote for subsidies for a developer that didn’t do their own due diligence on the cost of water in our state. Don’t be blinded by development at face value. The negative impact is worthy of extra considerations. Water is and will increasingly be our most precious resource. Sincerely, Lisa and Brett Aulwurm Fort Collins residents since 1984 From: Lois terMeer To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 8:26:17 AM Dear Council; I strongly agree with Mr. Gary Wockner when he says “What benefit does this development provide to current citizens?” NOT “What benefit can the current citizens provide to this development?”. ELCO has already invested a lot of money into providing the water to this developer, yet HF2M has decided they simply can not afford it? They are backing out on ELCO, and asking the city of FC to subsidize them! Unfortunately, I will not be able to stand in at the hearing for Montava to be heard; however, I hope my opinion will be considered. This developer is trying to plead for pity from the citizens of Fort Collins in order to line the project purse. Please do not allow this! Lois Termeer 5108 E. Mulberry, Fort Collins, CO From: Clay Frickey To: Delynn Coldiron Subject: Fw: Montava continued to January 14th Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 8:01:32 AM Comment for the record for Montava. Clay Frickey | Redevelopment Program Manager | 970.419.2517 From: Dave Hula <nowuwritetome@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:21 AM To: Clay Frickey <cfrickey@fcgov.com> Subject: Re: Montava continued to January 14th Dear Clay, Please forward my message below to City Council for consideration as part of their review of the Montava development project today: Dear Fort Collins City Council: A key element listed under the 2019 City Plan Neighborhood Livability and Social Health section is "Requiring adequate public facilities and infrastructure to serve existing development and new growth." In addition, according to filed documents, "PRINCIPLE MV- T-1 - Consistent with the Land Use Code, the transportation system within this subarea will have: 1) Arterial corridors providing safe and efficient multi-modal access to and through the subarea, including major features such as railroad under/overpasses (where necessary), and significant landscape mitigation features; " Despite the developer claims that this project will potentially decrease traffic volume due to the increased availability of home inventory, I do not think this will be the case (unless Montava is planned to be a prison.) This development will generate significant vehicle traffic and is likely to spur additional nearby development which will only add to the congestion. I am concerned that no consideration has been given to addressing the railroad crossing on Mountain Vista Drive despite this concern being raised multiple times during the prior public comment sessions during the planning process. The railroad crossing is not even mentioned in the Master Transportation Impact Study! Additional consideration needs to be given to adding additional vehicle capacity thru Montava (like changing the city plan to make Giddings Road a 4 lane arterial) and installing cheaper and safer roundabouts instead of traffic signals to improve traffic flow, or plan for an additional I-25 interchange or frontage road improvements to lessen the need for traffic from the north to have to funnel through Montava. Please deny approval of the Montava development project until adequate plans are in place to address the transportation issues. The time is NOW to plan an overpass of the Mountain Vista railroad crossing and additional infrastructure to efficiently handle the traffic. If this is not done now we are likely to create the same issue we currently have at I-25 and Harmony Road, but with the added "thrill" of railroad delays. Thank you again for carefully considering my input. Regards, Dave Hula 3540 Terry Lake Road Fort Collins, CO 80524 On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 8:49 AM Clay Frickey <cfrickey@fcgov.com> wrote: Hi Dave, Yes, there will be a public comment period tomorrow night. You can also e-mail any comments to me and I will get it to Council for their consideration. Thanks, Clay From: Dave Hula <nowuwritetome@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2020 8:07 AM To: Clay Frickey <cfrickey@fcgov.com> Subject: Re: Montava continued to January 14th Clay, Will there be a public comment period during the council meeting, and to where should I direct any email for any comments on Montava I might like to provide? Thanks. Dave Hula On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 10:54 AM Clay Frickey <cfrickey@fcgov.com> wrote: Hello, City Council will consider the Montava PUD at the January 14th meeting rather than on January 7th . A City Council member had a family emergency over the holidays that will not allow them to participate in the hearing on January 7th . To ensure all members of Council can vote on this item, City Council will be continuing the Montava hearing to January 14th . Please let your neighbors and other interested parties know that may not be on this distribution list. I apologize for the series of postponements of this item and the inconveniences this has caused. Thanks, Clay Clay Frickey | Redevelopment Program Manager P: 970.416.2517 | C: 303.330.4773 222 Laporte Ave. Fort Collins, CO 80521 From: DAVID ROY To: Emily Gorgol; CCSL Subject: Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:59:05 AM Good morning, City Council Member Gorgol; I hope that 2020 has started out in a great way for you, your friends, and your family. My reasons for writing to you this morning are simple, yet complicated. The simple part is that we live in a market economy, often expressed as the indomitable right of private property to guide our investments, leading to profits. The complicated part is that we live in a biological world that recognizes no boundaries, and where the best investment isn't for short term gain against environmental and social degradation, but in the 7th generation. Montava is playing on our prejudices of the simple part; more rooftops mean more opportunities to make money. To sweeten the deal, they will 'give' us more affordable housing, a goal that you and I have in common. This is where the complicated part comes in; water, transit, metro districts. A 'private' free market pays the going rate for a product. Subsidizing water for this project means socializing the costs, while 'privatizing' the profits. Not having a requirement in place that Montava build existing roadways to a condition that can accommodate their planned development should make their plan DOA. Metro Districts epitomize the Balkanization of local government, ensuring that the glare of transparency and the requirements of an open and responsive government are diminished. Council Member Gorgol; don't you think that if 'affordable housing' were a core value to Montava that it would be baked into their business plan? It isn't, and no amount of 'affordable housing', even if they were to actually build it, is worth subsidizing our water, allow the deterioration of our roadways, and making accountability from Montava more difficult through the creation of a Metro District. Council Member Gorgol; I know you get 'quality of life' the '7th generation' and 'open and transparent government'. This evening is an opportunity for these values to take front and center. Until Montava can afford to pay the market rate for water, improve and expand existing roadways to a standard that will accommodate their vision, and are willing to go forward and be a full member of the Fort Collins community without a Metro District being formed, I ask that you vote 'no' on their current plan. Thank you. David Roy 2016 Evergreen Court Fort Collins CO 80521 (970) 237-2794 From: Steve Hultin To: City Leaders Subject: Vote No on Water for Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:58:49 AM Please reject the Montava developers requests for water and sewer services from the City Utilities for the housing area. The Montava site is outside of the City’s utility district boundaries and it is a very bad precedent to offer services when existing water and sewer districts exist. We already have too much growth. Don’t subsidize the costs more. I don’t buy into the concept of developers pitching lower cost housing while also requesting public funds or other incentives. Growth is killing our NoCo quality of life! steve hultin Fort Collins From: Rosemary Beauvais To: City Leaders Subject: Please Do NOT Subsidize Montana Water Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:43:58 AM I moved to Fort Collins last year from Houston, Texas. I am a homeowner and voter. There are a number of master planned communities, like Montana, in Houston. I did not live in one, but I have many friends who do. I do not think that Montana is good for Fort Collins: Not only because of the water and traffic concerns, but also because residents of master planned communities tend to identify the master planned community as their primary/only community. That community can become the 500 pound gorilla on governance issues. The residents do not participate in the larger community (Fort Collins) life. In a city as large as Houston, 4 million, this didn't matter too much. In Fort Collins, it would matter a lot. Please do not invent development of master planned communities in Fort Collins. Thank you for your work and consideration. Rosemary Beauvais From: Sean Dougherty To: City Leaders Subject: Good morning! Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:14:29 AM Ladies & Gentlemen of the Fort Collins’ Leadership, First off, thank you for all that you do for our City. I know that it is no small job to help keep a City of this size chugging along. I am asking that you please approve the Montava Subdivision tonite at your City Council Meeting. There are many reasons that I could give for why this makes sense for Fort Collins, including one single Master Planned Community for the area; affordable and attainable housing; a walkable, varied housing and commercial stock; a new City Park, more school opportunities; environmentally friendly design; and less questions for the future. I’m not going to delve into each of my points above, but I will hit a couple. First, Affordable and Attainable Housing. Montava has pledged to provide housing for many different price points, and you have an opportunity to hold them to that with requirements on this approval. But let’s go a bit further – how can we increase some of the development density, in the right areas, and thus require more affordable and attainable housing, directed folks in the 60% - 120% AMI range? I do believe that this is not just possible, but relatively easily attained. The second huge benefit to Fort Collins, to me, is that this is a way to have one large plan in this area, vs. having to cobble together small PUDs for the next 30 years, which will likely not have any continuity nor aesthetically pleasing attributes. Wouldn’t it be awesome to know what will be coming, and to have all in the city look forward to its arrival? Personally and professionally, I want Fort Collins to be the best it can be, and I do believe that Montava is one step towards continuing towards that goal. Thank you for your time! Sincerely, Sean Dougherty Sean M. Dougherty, REALTORâ CRS, ABR, GREEN, CDPE, SFR, GRI, SHOP 2012 Realtor of the Year, Fort Collins Board of Realtors RE/MAX Alliance of Northern Colorado Proud Member of the RE/MAX Hall of Fame www.HawaiianShirtGuy.com or 970-40-ALOHA (402-5642) Achieving YOUR Real Estate Goals, One Home at a Time! From: Nancy Morgan To: City Leaders Subject: Vision for FC future? Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:14:28 AM To our City council leaders; If Montava, with the additional 4000 new homes, is not the definition of sprawl, then we might as well remove the word from the dictionary. In addition the access to our already limited and strained water supply should be a concern for our city leaders unless the goal is more dams, diversions, and risk for future drought. They can’t afford the water from the water district? Then that is a sign that we have reached a marker in our carrying capacity and we should be doing some critical thinking about what exactly we want our future to look like. I vote NO. Thank you for your consideration in this very important and far reaching matter. Nancy Morgan Ft. Collins 970-215-5005 From: Leslie Knaup To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 6:47:13 AM I agree with the January 14 editorial in the Fort Collins Coloradoan by Gary Wockner. The city should not subsidize the water for Montava. Montava should get their water from ELCO. But this brings up the larger issue of continued development without infrastructure improvements. The city continues to approve these developments before our roads are expanded to handle the traffic that is growing by leaps and bounds. Left turn lanes are not adequate. We need road expansion and an additional road that connects north Fort Collins to downtown and southbound roads. I live in northeast Fort Collins and I feel trapped by 2 lane roads, increased traffic, minimal traffic lights and the railroad. Montava should not be built until the city resolves these issues. Leslie Knaup, 3333 Hearthfire Dr. Fort Collins 80524 From: Eleen Baumann To: City Clerk Office Subject: Re: Questions for City Council on Montava Development Proposal Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 5:57:03 AM I don't really know how to submit written testimony for the Jan 14, 2020 meeting. Will this do? Eleen A Baumann, 2145 Bow Side Dr. Fort Collins, CO 80524, phone 970-472-2630 I have several questions. The proposed Montava development is located in the Boxelder Sanitation District. I believe there is a proposal before the City Council to allow Montava to buy water from the city and have the city provide sanitation services as well. Do ALL developers have the right to buy water from the City? It was my understanding the developers had to bring water rights with them before building could begin. According to the Coloradoan, the Montava developer is getting a significant financial windfall. According to the Coloradan on December 25, the current plan for Montana is for the developer pay $13.3 million to the City of Fort Collins to transfer 400 acre feet of water credits to the East Larimer County Water District. At this rate, the developer would be paying $33,250 per acre foot. At the current market rate for CBT water rights of $47,640 per acre foot, the Montava developer would pay $19.056 million, amounting to a $5.756 million windfall for the developer. According the the article in the Coloradan, the current plan is for the City to provide Montana with sanitation sewer service within the Boxelder Sanitation District. If there is resolution of significant legal issues with this proposal, this scenario would save the developer approximately $25 million in plant reinvestment fees. Do other developers get reduced rates for water and sanitation sewer service? I understand that the Montava Development is a large planned community but with the reduced rates being offered, I believe that taxpayers will pay in other ways to subsidize the reduced rates. Also, the water is being transferred from the City to another legal entity. I am in the Boxelder Sanitation district. If Montava utilizes Box Elder services, there may be economies of scale - more units to bear the cost. As noted in the open letter published in the Coloradoan on Jan 6, the sewer facilities of the City were not built and paid for by city residents to serve Montava. Also, with so many units projected the be built, would the City have to expand water treatment facilities? Would selling so much water to Montava significantly lower the amount of water the City could make available to other developers? I understand that this development is important, but I think the City should consider the overall costs to taxpayers to lure the development to FC. An assessment needs to be made regarding the actual costs of these subsidies including potential increases in taxes to fund street development to handle the traffic that will result from so many units being built. I agree with the argument/comments in the opinion published today in the Coloradoan Eleen A Baumann, 2145 Bow Side Dr. Fort Collins, CO 80524, phone 970-472-2630 From: Jim Pisula To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Development Water Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 4:44:23 AM Mayor and Council, Just to be clear - I have no issue with the Montava development's being built; but if it is, the water should come from the district in which it's located. Instead of bellyaching to Council, let the developer work with ELCO to improve the resources. Development must pay its own way. Thank you, --- Brenda and Jim Pisula 6255 Eagle Ridge Court Fort Collins, Colo. 80525 (970) 420-1211 From: L S Townsend To: City Leaders Subject: Montana Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 4:33:08 AM I do not always agree with Gary Wockner but he is correct on the Montana development. The cost of water and sewer should be born by the developer not the existing rate payers. ELCO water and Boxelder systems are in place and existing rate payers should not subsidize new development no matter how admirable the design. Thank you for your service and listening to ratepayers. Sincerely, Scott Townsend ELCO customer Sent from my iPad From: Eric Sutherland To: City Leaders Subject: Article II section 5 of the City Charter: Powers Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 9:16:14 PM Please consider this language from our Carter. Article II Section 5. - Powers. All powers of the city and the determination of all matters of policy shall be vested in the Council except as otherwise provided by this Charter. Without limitation of the foregoing, the Council shall have power to: ..... (b)establish, change, consolidate or abolish administrative offices, service areas or agencies by ordinance, upon report and recommendation of the City Manager, so long as the administrative functions and public services established by this Charter are not abolished in any such reorganization. The city shall provide for all essential administrative functions and public services, including, but not limited to the following: .... (5)water supply and wastewater services; I have always looked at this language and thought the city is just one lawsuit away from having to provide water service outside of the service terriory of Fort Collins Utilities' water department. This understanding is reinforced by every appellate court decision I have ever read regarding Home Rule authority and water law. There are a handful of cases specific to the provision of municipal water supplies that are on point. This is my principle concern with Fort Collins' consideration of a certain PUD application, even though this consideration is probably not within the scope of criteria for this quasi-judicial proceeding. Max Moss does not know where he will get water for 4,000 homes. It would be imprudent to think that he or his successors would not someday look to the City of Fort Collins for domestic water service for Montava. The language in the Development Agreement contemplated in Ordinance 015 is wholly insufficient. Eric Sutherland From: Kate Schulte To: City Leaders Subject: Montava and FC City Water Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 8:47:16 PM I sincerely hope that the city of Fort Collins will not offer the Montava development a water deal. The development will already pose many challenges to Fort Collins should it be built from road infrastructure to school crowding to pollution so there is absolutely no reason to help out the development instead of looking out for the current residents of our great city. As people continue to want to move here, developers will continue to want to build, but water is a precious resource that we cannot give away freely. Furthermore, it is not fair for the current residents and tax payers to help bring in this development, rather than the potential new residents and the developer. If the town was struggling and we needed more people, it might be something to consider, but not as things stand. PLEASE don’t sell out our city any more than is already being done. Please! Kate Schulte 721 Peyton Dr Fort Collins, CO 80525 From: schmaltz@bajabb.com To: City Leaders Subject: NO MONTAVA PLEASE Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 8:41:00 PM Dear City Council Members, Fort Collins is a great community. Please stop the Montava project. I’m not against development that has the required infrastructure but developers will come to Ft. Collins because of the community. Please provide the leadership to delay or decline this project until substantial infrastructure is built prior to approval. 2 simple examples are the poor traffic conditions on North I-25 & Lemay Av. I have lived in N. Fort Collins for 20 years and no infrastructure has every been completed on these 2 systems. If you want the tax revenue, the developer will continue to try to be in Ft. Collins because their business model is supported by the city of Fort Collins growth. Please provide effective leadership and delay or stop the Montava project. Dale Schmaltz 2319 Westview Road Ft. Collins, CO 80524 From: Rachel Lee To: Delynn Coldiron; Wade Troxell; Kristin Stephens; sgutowksy@fcgov.com; Julie Pignataro; Ken Summers; Ross Cunniff; Emily Gorgol Subject: The Impact of Montava on the Infrastructure and Traffic in Northeast Fort Collins Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 7:46:07 PM Dear City Council Members: I am writing to you regarding the Montava Development which you will be discussing on January 14th. As you are aware this project has raised many issues and concerns in northeast Fort Collins. When discussing this, I ask that you keep in mind the issues listed below and please include this in the public record: 1. Adequate Public Facilities (APF). This section of the Land Use Code is there for a reason. For too long residents of northeast Fort Collins have lived with only one East/West road connection - Country Club Road. Additionally, the railroad crossings at Vine and Timberline daily back up traffic in some instances almost a mile. Continued development without additional infrastructure in place violates the intent and purpose of the Adequate Public Facility code. The current policy of developers paying into a future solution gives no timeline or assurances to the citizens of Northeast Fort Collins that the APF issues will be resolved. 2. Unprecedented Favor From the Planning Department. The Fort Collins Planning Department has aided the Montava Developer with water rights, sanitation service, support for a Metro District, PUD approval, etc. This type of support is something that most developers in Fort Collins never experience. 3. Developers Must Build and Pay for the Roads. The network of roads throughout Fort Collins has been designed and paid for by developers. This has worked well for the City during the busy years of the early 2000's. With the last large area of developable land being in northeast Fort Collins, the City's philosophy of waiting for developers to pay for the design and construction of roads has not served this area well. There are many dead end roads and bike trails here due to leap frog development. Leapfrog development has not created a cohesive infrastructure network. Lastly, it appears that Conifer Road may never extend through to Timberline as the land through which it would extend was not purchased by a developer but rather a homeowner who has turned the property into an estate. It may be necessary for the City to be more proactive with northeast Fort Collins and design and build the road network before the development occurs. The uncertainty of when the remaining tracts of open land will develop is vague at best since building in Fort Collins has only gotten more costly and prohibitive. 4. Country Club Road Design. Country Club Road was not designed to carry the current amount of traffic and future vehicles from the Montava development. The geometry of Country Club Road does not comply with any of the standards from the Larimer County Urban Area Street Standards. The number of driveway accesses, lack of driveway separation, reduced road curve radii, lack of sight distance, and diminished width and right- of-way are all out of compliance with a road carrying this traffic volume (which is currently Collector Status and projected to have arterial volumes with Montava). All of these factors combine to create an overburdened and unsafe situation in addition to permanently spoiling the former beauty and uniqueness of this area. Please keep in mind the citizens of both Fort Collins and Larimer County when considering the Montava Development and the need for infrastructure improvements before it develops. Thank you for reading my thoughts and concerns. I respectfully request that my letter be included in the official record about this critical issue and that it be made available for consideration in any future proceedings and deliberations (legal or otherwise) about the Montava project. Sincerely, Rachel Lee From: isaac cline To: City Leaders Subject: Montava development water begging Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 7:10:15 PM Do not give the montava developers from Texas any special treatment. They should either be able to pay for it themselves or not build anything. From: David Beede To: Delynn Coldiron Subject: Fwd: proposed Montava PUD perspectives and concerns Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 6:00:50 PM Attachments: Letter_FCC&LCC_DKB.pdf Hello Delynn Coldiron, I am forwarding to you the attached letter about the Montava proposal that I sent to the Mayor and other City Council members in order to be sure that it is included in the packet of public comments for City Council consideration. Thanks, David Beede ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: David Beede <cowtrout@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:58 AM Subject: proposed Montava PUD perspectives and concerns To: Wade Troxell <wtroxell@fcgov.com> Cc: David Beede <beede@msu.edu> January 11, 2020 To: City of Fort Collins Council Members and Larimer County Commissioners Re: proposed Montava PUD perspectives and concerns Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: I write in reference to the proposed Montava PUD in northeast Fort Collins. My comments are shared with both City Council members and County Commissioners, and hopefully the corresponding support staffs because the proposed development site is at the interface of city and county roads and services. In my opinion, both government entities must work together to collaboratively plan, finance, and develop this area and its functions for the best possible benefit of all taxpayers and voters in this area. Please find my complete letter attached. Sincerely yours, David K. Beede, PhD 1701 Rangeview Dr. Fort Collins, CO 80524 cowtrout@gmail.com From: Charles Kopp To: City Leaders Subject: Montava PUD Master Plan Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 5:37:37 PM Dear City Leaders----I strongly urge you to reject the monstrous Montava project, which I feel should have been much more thoroughly studied before its come close to final approval I’m very disappointed by the Planning Dept. and other staff approvals, which seems to indicate that they care more about the interests of a Texas-based developer than the real long-term interests of our great city. Let’s not forget that developers are profit-driven sales people---not altruistic, or socially and environmentally-conscious by nature---and that this particular one has apparently “greenwashed” a massive environmental insult with such promises as much of the development being “zero energy ready,” and an “agri-community” with its own organic farm.----all to make the project more saleable. And the planning people may have been duped by this front. I’m also disappointed in Native Hill Farm---which I’ve supported---for being willing to make what I view as a deal with the Devil to expand their operation----which I would whole-heartedly support elsewhere. Speaking of that, imagine if the land in question----largely former farmland----was somehow able to revert to that; only as a huge organic farm with regenerative agricultural practices, and not the measly 40 acres I heard Native Hill would be allotted by Montava. Wouldn’t that be much better for the environmental and other well-being of our community---and the planet?--- since regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon in addition to all its other benefits. Instead of the city investing in Montava, which is bound to have long-term costs to the public, how about considering investing in something like the agricultural alternative I mentioned for the land at issue? Here’s another opportunity to make Fort Collins stand out, and not be just another growth-crazy community that enables developers. I’ll remind you that FC is already the fourth largest city in Colorado; and although much of the growth has had very positive results in transforming the former relatively small town into a world- class community, I believe we’re at a point now where it’s time to reign in more on the growth, and try to stabilize our population more. More of a good thing does not always make it better. And in this case I believe the projected growth---especially if it includes a monster like Montava---will make things worse, including our quality of life here. We must question the wisdom of thinking we have to build till “buildout.” And revise planning committed to this dubious goal. At the very least, please put Montava on a long hold for a lot more consideration and public input before it gets the seal of final approval. If this isn’t done, I’m afraid the present city leadership will leave a very negative legacy. Sincerely, Charles Kopp Fort Collins Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Tauny Gilmore To: Delynn Coldiron Subject: FW: Montava First Reading Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 5:24:57 PM Attachments: image001.png Tauny Gilmore Administrative Assistant in the City Manager’s Office 970-416-4312 tagilmore@fcgov.com From: Todd Parker <tparker@waypointre.com> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2020 4:33 PM To: Wade Troxell <WTroxell@fcgov.com>; Kristin Stephens <kstephens@fcgov.com>; Susan Gutowsky <sgutowsky@fcgov.com>; Julie Pignataro <jpignataro@fcgov.com>; Ken Summers <ksummers@fcgov.com>; Ross Cunniff <rcunniff@fcgov.com>; Emily Gorgol <egorgol@fcgov.com> Cc: Darin Atteberry <DATTEBERRY@fcgov.com> Subject: Montava First Reading Good afternoon Mayor Troxell and Council Members, I am reaching out to you via email in support of the Montava Development as the rescheduling of the reading conflicts with my schedule and I cannot be there tomorrow night to voice my support for the project. I am not affiliated with this project, but have been involved in the Fort Collins building and development community for the past 23 years. I am a citizen of Fort Collins and have sat on the City’s advisory committees for code review, development process improvements and climate action initiatives. I believe in Fort Collins’ as a community that cares about smart growth, being able to accommodate the influx of people we have moving to our city every month while balancing the impact on the environment and city resources. Because of the careful planning that the Montava team has put into this development I believe that Montava is the ideal master-planned development that the City should stand behind. The project balances the City’s goal for increased density while maintaining open spaces and green belts for public use. The Climate Action Plan (Climate Future) has set high goals to become carbon neutral and the Zero Energy ready homes planned in this community helps push that initiative. The community based commerce and urban agriculture not only plays to a reduced carbon footprint but it is in alignment with what the community wants from their local neighborhood. These are just a few of the reasons I support this project. You know the development so I won’t go into the detail of why this project is different than just about all others in Fort Collins. And I want to applaud the City Manager’s office for working outside the box to try and help this development solve the water issues that exist for this project. Without public-private partnerships working with the utility providers it will be hard, if not impossible, for the City to improve the existing building inventory, steer new development in the right direction and upgrade infrastructure and transportation needs for all of its’ citizens. We are a growing community and that will not stop in the near term so please consider supporting this development as it will help the City set the bar as the right type of communities we want. Thank you for your time, Todd Parker 120 W Olive, Ste 220 | Fort Collins, CO 80524 970.231.0746 (m) 970.632.5050 (o) | tparker@waypointre.com From: Tauny Gilmore To: Delynn Coldiron Subject: FW: Input for Montava Proposal; Tues, January 18 Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 5:23:44 PM Tauny Gilmore Administrative Assistant in the City Manager’s Office 970-416-4312 tagilmore@fcgov.com From: trudyh1@comcast.net <trudyh1@comcast.net> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2020 5:23 PM To: Wade Troxell <WTroxell@fcgov.com>; Ross Cunniff <rcunniff@fcgov.com>; Emily Gorgol <egorgol@fcgov.com>; Ken Summers <ksummers@fcgov.com>; Julie Pignataro <jpignataro@fcgov.com>; Susan Gutowsky <sgutowsky@fcgov.com>; Kristin Stephens <kstephens@fcgov.com> Cc: Cameron Gloss <cgloss@fcgov.com>; Darin Atteberry <DATTEBERRY@fcgov.com> Subject: Input for Montava Proposal; Tues, January 18 Re: Montava Proposal--Tuesday, January 18 Dear City Council, Thank you for all the work that you do and your dedication to our City. I am writing to express my and my neighbors extreme concerns about the Montava project. One of the biggest concerns of Ft. Collins’ residents is growth—and the need for growth to pay its own way. This project as proposed will certainly add to the growth which we all hate and make the FC taxpayers subsidize it. This whole project is extremely unpopular with FC residents except for the few people who will make money. Metro District abuse is occurring in our State—are there safeguards to protect people from having to pay exorbitant property taxes later? And for those who think that this will make our town more affordable—please know that you cannot grow your way to affordability. If that were the case, LA County would be the most affordable in the country. In fact, it makes living here more expensive for the people who currently live here—those that you represent. Growing your way to affordability doesn’t work—it’s like adding a lane to the interstate—traffic congestion is reduced for a nano- second and then just fills up. The City’s Land Conservation and Stewardship Board, of which I was a member for 8 years, suggested we buy the property for open space for agriculture, local community gardens, and renewable energy options. I said at the time, buying the property would cost the taxpayers less than all the infrastructure, schools, additional services, etc., and make our community more sustainable. I wish I was not proven right. Please simply reject this plan and all the horrific growth subsidies. It’s not City’s job to make non-viable projects viable or to make developers rich on the backs of taxpayers. Thank you, Trudy Trudy Haines 625 Hinsdale Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 970-218-6010 Trudyh1@comcast.net From: Virginia Mohr-Callahan To: City Leaders Subject: Proposed Montava Subdivision Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 9:39:31 AM 1-14-2020 Dear City Leaders: Please enter this letter into the formal record of the January 14, 2020 City Council Meeting re: Montava. We are Virginia Mohr-Callahan and Gerald Callahan. We live at 1740 Nedrah Drive, Fort Collins. We have lived in/paid taxes in northeast Fort Collins for nearly 36 years, and nearly 11 years at our current address. The only way into and out of our Nedrah Acres subdivision is via Country Club Road – already clotted with its current burden of daily traffic and illegal truck traffic. During morning/evening rush periods, it is nearly impossible to turn west onto Country Club, because the traffic is so thick. Add to that the heavy traffic on North Lemay, as well as Timberline Road at Mountain Vista, and it is clear traveling in this part of the city is already challenging. None of these roads is equipped to handle the influx of traffic that the proposed Montava development’s own predictions say will result from this subdivision. We are perplexed as to why the City of Fort Collins would even remotely consider approving the Montava subdivision with so many unresolved infrastructure issues. Why would the City put profits over people and give the green light to a developer who is unwilling to adequately finance the necessary infrastructure for this subdivision just so this company can make millions? Why would the City put the profit-making desires of a developer over the safety needs of thousands of tax-paying citizens who already own their homes? Montava cannot be allowed to move forward until myriad infrastructure concerns are not just promised to be resolved but are already in place. Montava stands to make many millions and millions (for years to come) on this endeavor. Don’t put the profits of a few over the safety/quality of life of thousands of people. Sincerely, Virginia Mohr-Callahan and Gerald N. Callahan 1740 Nedrah Drive Fort Collins, CO 80524 970 222-4876 From: Donna Sprague To: Susan Gutowsky; City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 9:40:05 AM I appreciate the concept of Montava, but I have serious concerns about all the subsidizing being requested. Didn't their planning take into consideration that their location is in the Boxelder Sewer District and ELCO Water District? Why shouldn't they be using those entities for their services? (apart from reducing their costs and thereby lining their own pockets!) Larimer County is dealing with traffic problems and roads stressed by current local needs in that area, let alone access into Fort Collins. Montava needs to directly invest in more of the infrastructure needed to build their mini-city, rather than look for financing and perks from current taxpayers. Donna Sprague From: JOHN DIXON To: City Leaders Subject: 4,000 Homes Montana Development - Water Subsidy Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 9:36:52 AM Dear City Council Members: I firmly oppose the City of Fort Collins subsidizing water for the Montava development near the Anhuese- Busch brewery. Such a subsidy comes at a cost to the citizens of Fort Collins. ANY developer should pay its own way. A lack of water for further development is the developer’s problem, not our problem. Water on the Front Range is a finite constraint on any new development. We already are approaching our limit on development. Only the developer will benefit from a water subsidy. The citizens of Fort Collins will see NO benefit, only the costs of irresponsible development on our resources, our infrastructure, and our pocket books. Do the right thing! Stand up and protect the interests of the citizens of Fort Collins, not the narrow interests of a developer! Respectfully, John S. Dixon 1704 Brookhaven Circle West Fort Collins 80525 Ph. (970) 980-3248 From: Nancy Foxley To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 9:33:30 AM I'm writing to urge to you not to subsidize the Montava development's water needs. I can't think of any reason you would even think of doing this. Ask anybody who's lived in Fort Collins for any length of time, and they will tell you the biggest problem we have is growth! There is absolutely no reason our city government should be subsidizing another giant development outside city limits! You know, of course, that water is THE finite resource in Northern Colorado. The citizens of Fort Collins are the ones who are going to ultimately foot the bill for the increased demand for water. Have you lost your minds? Sincerely, Nancy Foxley 3186 Worthington, Ave. Fort Collins From: D Lafayette To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 9:16:07 AM To Whom it May Concern, I am very concerned about the negative consequences of the Montava development. I have lived close to Tavelli Elementary for over twenty five years and the increase in traffic has overwhelmed the roads in the area. Country Club Road is not capable of handling the traffic it already sees, let alone the increase Montava would bring. The infrastructure of the area needs to be addressed before such growth is implemented. Please put this development on hold until the roads in the area are upgraded and can handle the population increase. I also do not want to subsidize water for the Montava developer. Respectfully, Deborah Lafayette 1129 Hillside Court Sent from my iPad From: JOHN To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 9:47:03 AM My husband. who is 80 and ,I at 76, cannot make the meeting tonight, but I wish to greatly express our objection to the Montava project. Firstly , this area cannot possibly sustain all the extra traffic on these antiquated roads. Have you consistently had to sit at Timberline and Vine for 20 to 30 minutes while the trains go back and forth, stressing because you’re going to be late for appts? Think of emergency vehicles getting to All these people while waiting for a train to pass. The traffic issue was enough of a problem and then along comes the water and sewer issues. We have had all our utilities raised significantly and our income has not reflected those increases. We are in a hole now and the city doesn’t seem to give a damn. I clearly remember when building the first Walmart here was a huge issue and city council rejected the project. They had to get petitions to get it built. I have nothing against Walmart, but what happened to that Fort Collins that worked for the betterment of our city? This whole thing doesn’t smell right to us. I’m sick of out of state people coming in here and ruining our beautiful city just to make money. How about you guys stand up for all of us who live and love it here and let’s not let this monstrosity destroy North East Fort Collins before all problems have been addressed and resolved . Thank you Suzanne and John Buccheri Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Maren Reichert To: City Leaders Subject: No to Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 9:57:23 AM Hello City Leaders, I am writing to ask you to not approve the Montava project without first addressing your citizen’s concerns. I am a 4th generation resident of North Fort Collins and remember the city telling us when I was little that Lemay would be widened and fixed in a “few years.” That was in the 80’s. Now growth has reached a boiling point and the city is still stalling on fixing the dangerous intersection. I am guessing none of you have to commute through that intersection, it is a nightmare. I bought a home in Maple Hill knowing the surrounding area would be built out one day, and welcome the growth. But we need basic infrastructure first. The cell tower that was compromised on still brings NO signal to our home. I can not text or call 911 if the power is out. And Montava, when built, needs to use ELCO water. Our water costs are out of control on the north end and it would actually hurt us if we didn’t have a larger pool to share the burden. Thank you for listening to my concerns as well has my friends and neighbors. Maren Reichert Sent from my iPhone From: Alan Burke To: City Leaders Subject: Water to Montavia Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:22:52 AM Please do not sell water to this development at a reduced rate! We do not need more incentives that are grossly unfair to the current citizens. Anyone who votes for this will have that on their voting record and will answer to the voters in the next election. Sent from my iPhone From: Doug Barker To: City Leaders Subject: Montava PUD - Opposition to Approval Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:19:59 AM Good Morning, I am a citizen of Fort Collins and I would like to voice my opposition to the Montava project in terms of water and wastewater issues. I believe that the citizens of Fort Collins should not be forced to subsidize development that is outside our service area. Also, the Montava PUD plans should not be approved until infrastructure plan details are in place. The developer should work with ELCO and Boxelder Sanitation and not expect Fort Collins citizens to help pay for the development. Thank you, Doug Barker Dakota Ridge Subdivision, Fort Collins From: Keela Beavers To: City Leaders Subject: MONTAVA Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:16:16 AM Dear Members of the City Council, I am writing this letter to discuss my concerns regarding the Montava Development. I reside in this area and the traffic here is currently quite congested. In looking at the Montava plans, this would not improve. I am very discouraged by the city council and it's members. You do not listen to your citizens. I haven't heard of any citizens arguing to proceed with Montava. No one is out there saying, "Hell yeah, let's build this, let's increase congestion, eliminate open spaces, increase pollution, take water rights etc...". The people who live in Ft. Collins enjoy the few open spaces that are left. We are people who enjoy outdoor activities. You continue to make decisions that are not in our best interests such as the Hughes Stadium redevelopment plan. You continue to add developments and do not address the traffic or infrastructure issues as you go. This is poor planning and greatly increases safety risks. I encourage you to listen to the people for a change. This development is too big. It does not align with the values of your citizens with whom you represent. Thank you, Keela Beavers 2025 Sherrell Drive Fort Collins, CO 80524 p.s. The plan does not even address our road, which runs between Country Club and Turnberry. From: ruth fleming To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:09:20 AM I am against providing any housing developer with cheaper water. Providing water for their homebuyers is the developer's responsibility not the city's. Developer's must realize that this is a semi-arid desert and cannot sustain unlimited growth. I have not seen that Montava has approached Budweiser for any assistance in this regard. I understand that Budweiser has water rights and may be able to help. If Budweiser is not using all the water they have a right to use they should form an agreement with Montava. Let's not make a rod with which to beat our own backs. Mrs R Fleming From: Donna Sprague To: City Leaders Subject: Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:32:57 AM Since this is to be a functionally self-contained community, 1. what employment opportunities will be available for the residents? 2. are there any commitments for "affordable shopping" for the "affordable housing" residents? 3. are there any commitments from health care services to operate facilities within the community? 4. how soon would schools be located within the community, limiting busing to other PSD facilities, during what growth timeline? Philosophically, this compares to old-fashioned small-town living. Hopefully there'll be enough bars and churches and recreational offerings, as well as the items noted above, to keep the residents satisfied within their boundaries. Unfortunately, the nature of today's populace is to travel out of that small town into nearby cities for both employment and entertainment. How will these predilections be overcome, in order to accomplish the intended result of a self- contained community? Donna Sprague From: jim comiskey To: City Leaders Subject: Montava water issue Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:48:57 AM Do not place the cost of supplying water to a developer on current residents. We do not live here to give handouts to developers. Be responsible and represent current residents not for profit developers who try to take advantage of us. Growth is inevitable but it is your job to manage it wisely. 1 Sara Gonzales From: Sarah Kane Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:16 AM To: Sara Gonzales; Delynn Coldiron Subject: Fwd: Montava Development and Abbreviated Comments Begin forwarded message: From: "Curt at CurtMc.com" <Curt@curtmc.com> Date: January 14, 2020 at 11:11:03 AM MST To: City Leaders <CityLeaders@fcgov.com> Cc: Wade Troxell <WTroxell@fcgov.com>, Kristin Stephens <kstephens@fcgov.com>, Susan Gutowsky <sgutowsky@fcgov.com>, Julie Pignataro <jpignataro@fcgov.com>, Ken Summers <ksummers@fcgov.com>, Ross Cunniff <rcunniff@fcgov.com>, Emily Gorgol <egorgol@fcgov.com>, Sarah Kane <SKane@fcgov.com> Subject: Montava Development and Abbreviated Comments City Council of Fort Collins: Thanks for the opportunity to provide my comments. My family lives in the City and a block from Highway 1 and Country Club Road. I purchased my house in 2019 moved my business here. I have read much on the proposed Montava Development. Previously, I oversaw municipalities in this six-state region for the Federal government. I now have a wastewater consulting business that provides support only to municipalities. I love development if it is smart development. I am against this development until the developer can fund its own water and wastewater costs without subsidy, including upgrading roads and other needed infrastructure. Gone are the days when development along the Front Range had to be competitive or a municipality would see adverse impacts. Fort Collins is not hurting for development. Approval of this Montava project does not focus on the needs of City ratepayers. I am more than a little perplexed at the focus on staff and management on figuring out how to make it possible to subsidize this development rather than asking “Should we?”. The Jurassic Park conundrum. I have seen this limited focus especially in communities in states where development is really needed (I was auditing the City of Worland, WY when the only McDonalds opened… it was attended by many people in this small community). Are these developers ethical or are they structuring their projects to cost residents of these developments a lot of money in the long term? On December 8, 2019 and December 15, 2019, the Denver Post published articles on the lack of ethics of some Metro Districts. These articles are a must read. Your staff can read and educate themselves on this developer and what they have planned. If you believe that we have no responsibility as to the ethics of who we deal with, only sell ratepayers resources and ignore needed infrastructure refinements prior to any development, then I imagine this email is going into the trash! If you read this email, thank you up front. 2 Curtis McCormick 2103 Falcon Hill Road Fort Collins, CO Curt@CurtMc.com From: jacko@frii.com To: City Leaders Subject: Montava and Metropolitan Districts Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:59:18 AM Dear Council Members, Prior to approving this development, in part or in its entirety:... 1. Please address the issues of water for this development - where it will come from, how that will affect existing infrastructures and supplies 2. Please address the sewage issues raised by the Boxelder Sanitation District by engaging Directly with BSD 3. Please address the potential conflicts inherent in how Metropolitan Districts can be mis-used... i.e. benefits to developers and their partners being directly the causes of financial problems for homeowners within the development. Postponement of approval until these issues are resolved will be absolutely appropriate. There are too many misunderstood concepts being tossed around concerning this huge development. The Opinion Statement in the Coloradoan this morning from Max Moss, the developer, did NOT truly clarify the questions related to the three issues listed above. Mr. Moss only asked people concerned to trust and believe him that he only wants to do good, and to find out more at tonights Council meeting which I am sure he knows that most people will be unable to attend. Thank you, Jack Armstrong Fort Collins From: JACQUIE VAUX To: City Leaders Subject: Our city water Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:38:53 AM Dear city leaders, Please vote NO on the water proposal for the huge water project in North east Fort Collins by the Budwiser plant. We do not want to subsidize our water to an unrelated community. This is a huge mistake. Do not do it! We already pay enough for our water, which is in short supply. This community should not even be built if it does not have an affordable supply of water. The developer screwed up, by not figuring this out, before he planned this stupid gigantic development. Our community does not need this development. It will lead to more traffic congestion, more air pollution, more crowded schools. Be community leaders. We need you to lead on this one. Vote NO on giving this developer our water!!!!! Best regards, Jacquie Vaux From: John Foster To: City Leaders; opinion@coloradoan.com Subject: Montava Development - Commentary Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:35:16 AM From where I stand, the biggest (but not the only) priority and issue to all of us in Fort Collins for the Montava development proposal is the water and sewage subsidies! Recently the developer provided his personal rebuttal/response in the Coloradoan which was weak and full of superficial prompts of goodwill toward the city with no substance as to the actual/financial upsides or impact mitigation to their development plans. We cannot let this, or any other developer come in with the expectation that our precious resources can continue to be drawn down without any impact on all involved. This is a cultural crisis of trying to expand and grow bigger, make more profits without understanding how to live within our means and available resources. If the developer is only now recognizing/understanding that their plans are flawed (utilities are too expensive) then what else might they have overlooked that they can't "afford" to fix or build-out? -- Best, John Foster c- 720-308-4032 From: info@inkpopstudio.com To: City Leaders Subject: No on subsidized water for Montava Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:15:26 AM Dear Fort Collins leaders: I would like to add my support to the position stated by Gary Wockner in the excellent guest opinion in the Coloradoan: growth must pay its own way and bring benefits to our citizens. If the out-of-state developers of the proposed Montava neighborhood do not have a financially viable plan for the water needs of the new homes they are proposing, they should not expect a subsidy from current rate-payers. I support the idea that the infrastructure questions - roads, water, utilities - need to be answered before any further steps. Thank you, Steve Sedam Resident