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Community Development & Neighborhood Services
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cc: Jim McDonald, Director, Cultural Services
Ellen Martin, Visual Arts Administrator, Art in Public Places , Cultural Services
Planning, Development & Transportation Services
MEMORANDUM
DATE: October 19, 2020
TO: Mayor Troxell and City Councilmembers
THRU: Darin Atteberry, City Manager
Kelly DiMartino, Deputy City Manager Caryn Champine, Director, Planning, Development & Transportation
Paul Sizemore, Interim Director, Community Development & Neighborhood Services
Marcy Yoder, Sr. Manager, Neighborhood Services
FROM: JC Ward, Sr. City Planner, Neighborhood Services
RE: LPT Meeting Follow Up from 10/12/20 regarding Tres Colonias Neighborhood
Projects
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This memo is in response to a request from the Leadership Planning Team meeting on 10/12/20
regarding the stone monuments/neighborhood signs previously proposed for the Tres Colonias
neighborhoods.
Background:
In the 2015-2016 budget, Keep Fort Collins Great funding and General Fund reserves were
allocated for neighborhood projects, including neighborhood monuments or markers, as part of
the Lincoln Corridor Plan to celebrate and enhance the surrounding neighborhoods. A
Neighborhood Advisory Committee (NAC), an ad hoc committee appointed by the City
Manager, was created to provide community insight into the design of neighborhood projects
identified during the Lincoln Corridor Plan and consisted of residents from the Buckingham, Alta
Vista, and Andersonville/San Cristo/Via Lopez neighborhoods. The NAC provided direction for
improvements to design, community satisfaction, and integration of neighborhood values;
review ed neighborhood project plans; and supported the Art in Public Places (APP) process for
applicable neighborhood projects.
Outcomes:
The NAC, Art in Public Places, and Neighborhood Services Department collaborated on
neighborhood artwork that would celebrate the history of the area and address neighborhood
livability issues. Through collaboration, the NAC determined that the proposed stone
neighborhood monuments did not align with their vision of the neighborhood character and
might encourage unwanted pedestrian traffic in the neighborhoods. The art for the Tres
Colonias neighborhood projects shifted focus to a community painted transformer cabinet mural,
designs for neighborhood art signs, and art elements for Sugar Beet Park . The community
mural project in Buckingham Park was completed in November 2017. The artist working on Tres
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Community Development & Neighborhood Services
281 North College Avenue
P.O . Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580
970.416.2740
970.224.6134- fax
fcgov.com
cc: Jim McDonald, Director, Cultural Services
Ellen Martin, Visual Arts Administrator, Art in Public Places , Cultural Services
Planning, Development & Transportation Services
Colonias neighborhood projects incorporated the values and messaging developed with the
NAC to design the large, iconic sugar beet interactive play structure as art to be enjoyed by the
entire community and contribute to place-making in Tres Colonias. The Sugar Beet play
structure was showcased in a Fort Collins Museum of Discovery exhibit before moving to its
home in the park for the official September 2019 grand opening. APP also commissioned a
second artwork with a local artist to create a sugar beet inspired trellis for the walkway that
leads to the sugar beet playground. APP additionally completed a neighborhood paver project
that was developed by a call to artists to submit drawings that celebrate the history of the area.
Six designs were selected and sandblasted into granite pavers and placed in sidewalks in the
neighborhood.
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