HomeMy WebLinkAbout173 - 11/03/1987 - AMENDING CITY CODE TO AUTHORIZE THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD TO ACCEPT DEDICATIONS OF STREETS, EASE ORDINANCE NO. 173, 1987
AMENDING SECTION 2-353(4) OF THE
CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
TO AUTHORIZE THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD TO
ACCEPT DEDICATIONS OF STREETS, EASEMENTS AND OTHER
RIGHTS-OF-WAY, AND TO VACATE EASEMENTS
AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY
WHEREAS, Section 2-353(4) of the Code of the City authorizes the
Planning and Zoning Board to take final action to approve, disapprove or
approve with conditions all planning items, subject to appeal to the City
Council ; and
WHEREAS, the past practice of the Board has been to, as a part of its
final action on planning items, accept the dedication of streets, easements
and other rights-of-way as laid out on plats presented to the board for
approval ; and
WHEREAS, it has further been the past practice of the Board to review
and approve replats presented to the Board, including the vacation of
easements and other rights-of-way dedicated on original plats, when the
replat contains a notation of such vacation; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Fort Collins does hereby determine
that it is in the best interests of the City that the Code be amended to
expressly provide for the acceptance and vacation of such dedications.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that Section 2-353(4) of the Code of the City be amended to read as
follows:
(4) The board shall have the authority to take final action
to approve, disapprove or approve with conditions all planning
items in accordance with this Code and Charter provided that the
City Council by a majority vote of a quorum of its members shall
have the power to review such decisions in accordance with the
provisions of Article II, Division 3 of this Chapter. In taking
such final action, the board shall have authority to accept the
dedication of streets, easements and other rights-of-way as laid
out on plats presented to the board for approval , and shall have
the authority to vacate easements and other rights-of-way, but
not to include streets and alleys, by resolution or by approval
of replats containing notation of such vacation.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading and ordered
published this 20th day of October, A.D. 1987, and to be presented for
final passage on the 3rd day of November, A.D. 1987.
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City Clerk
1987.Passed and adopted on final reading this 3rd day of November, A.D.
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