HomeMy WebLinkAbout098 - 07/16/2024 - DESIGNATING SPEED CORRIDORS PURSUANT TO FORT COLLINS TRAFFIC CODE SECTION 1106ORDINANCE NO.098,2024
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
DESIGNATING SPEED CORRIDORS PURSUANT TO
FORT COLLINS TRAFFIC CODE SECTION 1106
A.The City currently utilizes Automated Vehicle Identification Systems (AVIS)
to detect speeding violations as authorized under Fort Collins Traffic Code Section 1106.
B.Traffic speed is a concerning problem facing the City of Fort Collins.Last
year,the City experienced a record-high number of fatal and injury collisions,many of
which were associated with people driving beyond posted speed limits.
C.In 2023 and 2024,changes to Colorado law related to the expanded use of
unmanned speed enforcement with AVIS,to allow detection of speed violations on
sections of roadways designated by the Council as corridors.
D.Pursuant to Fort Collins Traffic Code Section 1106,City Council is
authorized to designate by Ordinance specific corridors for speed enforcement on city
streets,on state highways in coordination with the Colorado Department of
Transportation,and on county roads with notification to the Colorado State Patrol.
E.The designation of corridors throughout the city will help promote traffic
safety through speed enforcement and supports Vision Zero,the City Council’s goal of
eliminating Fort Collins roadway fatalities and reducing injury crashes.
F.City staff will provide updates to Council every two years on the
performance of the adopted speed corridors to allow adjustments to speed corridor
designations as needed based on data and direction from Council.
G.City Council’s designation of corridors is based on data collected within up
to the last five years of the roadways and intersections with the highest level of crashes
involving injuries,serious bodily injury,and fatalities;speed violations of 20 miles per hour
or more;intersections with more than 700 redlight speed violations of 11 miles per hour
or more;citations for careless driving,reckless driving,speed contest,and speed
exhibition,and areas with more than seven traffic related community complaints.
H.These corridor designations shall remain in effect until modified by future
adopted ordinance.
In light of the foregoing recitals,which the Council hereby makes and adopts as
determinations and findings,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as applicable to Fort Collins Traffic Code Section 1106 that the following
corridors shall be established as AVIS speed corridors,to include all intersections
abutting,and all directions of traffic on,the roadways listed below:
I.Suniga Road—Between College Avenue and Lemay Avenue;
II.Riverside Drive—Between College Avenue and Pitkin Street;
III.Prospect Road—Between Taft Hill Road and 1-25;
IV.Drake Road—Between Overland Trail and Lemay Avenue;
V.Horsetooth Road—Between College Avenue and Ziegler Road;
VI.Harmony Road—Between Chokecherry Trail and 1-25;
VII.Trilby Road—Between Wainright Drive and College Avenue/Highway 287;
VIII.Taft Hill Road—Between Mulberry Street and Trilby Street;
IX.Shields Street—Between Elizabeth Street and Carpenter Road;
X.College Avenue/Hwy 287—Between Laurel Street and Carpenter Road;
Xl.Lemay Avenue—Between Prospect Road and Trilby Road;
XII.Timberline Road—Between Prospect Road and Drake Road;
XIII.Timberline Road—Between Harmony Road and Trilby Road;
XIV.Ziegler Road—Between William Neal Parkway and Kechter Road;
XV.Conifer Street—Between College Avenue and Lemay Avenue;
XVI.Mulberry Street—Between Taft Hill Road and 121h Street;
XVII.Stuart Street—Between College Avenue and Lemay Avenue;
XVIII.Elizabeth Street—Between Overland Trail and Shields Street;
XIX.Drake Road—Between Lemay Avenue and Miles House Avenue;
XX.Overland Trail—Between Mulberry Street and Drake Road;
XXI.Timberline Road—Between Drake Road and Harmony Road;
XXII.Intersection at Mulberry Street and Shields Street—East and West
Approaches;
XXIII.Intersection at Prospect Road and Shields Street—North and South
Approaches;
XXIV.Intersection at Harmony Road and Shields Street—North and South
Approaches;
XXV.Intersection at Drake Road and College Avenue—North and South
Approaches;
XXVI.Intersection at Drake Road and Lemay Avenue—North and East
Approaches;and
XXVII.Intersection at Harmony Road and Timberline Road—East and West
Approaches.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading on July 2,2024,and approved
on second reading for final passage on the July 16,2024.
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Effective Date:July 26,2024
Approving Attorney:Dawn Downs
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