HomeMy WebLinkAbout024 - 03/01/2005 - AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE CITY CODE TO DEFINE THE TERM ''GROWTH MANAGEMENT AREA'' AND TO REPL ORDINANCE NO. 024, 2005
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
TO DEFINE THE TERM "GROWTH MANAGEMENT AREA"
AND TO REPLACE THE EXISTING REFERENCES TO "FORT COLLINS URBAN
GROWTH AREA" WITH SAID TERM
WHEREAS, Article XIII of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins establishes a definition
of the term "Fort Collins Urban Growth Area", which term is referenced in the Code of the City of
Fort Collins; and
WHEREAS, said term is defined in the Charter as that geographic area within and adjacent
to the City of Fort Collins identified by the Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Fort
Collins and Larimer County as that area identified for annexation and urbanization by the City of
Fort Collins including the Urban Growth Area as it exists on March 5, 1985, together with any
amendments or changes thereto; and
WHEREAS, the City and Larimer County have updated the intergovernmental agreement
referenced in the foregoing definition, and in the new agreement the term "Growth Management
Area" rather than an "Urban Growth Area", is used and defined; and
WHEREAS, this new term has become more commonly used and accepted in referring to
the geographic area originally referred to as the "Urban Growth Area"; and
WHEREAS, in order to update the references in the Code to the more commonly used and
understood term, and provide a clear definition for it,this Ordinance adds a definition of"Growth
Management Area" to the general definitions section of the Code, and replaces existing references
to "Fort Collins Urban Growth Area" with "Growth Management Area.
NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That Section 1-2 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby amended
to add the following definition of the term "growth management area" as follows:
Growth Management Area shall mean the Fort Collins Urban Growth Area as
defined in Article XIII of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins, namely, that
geographic area within and adjacent to the City of Fort Collins identified by the
Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Fort Collins and Larimer County
as that area identified for annexation and urbanization by the City of Fort Collins
including the Urban Growth Area as it exists on March 5, 1985, together with any
amendments or changes thereto.
Section 2. That Section 2-138(a) of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby
amended as follows:
Sec. 2-138. Membership; terms; training; subcommittees.
(a) The board shall consist of seven(7)members appointed by the City Council.
The names of nominees for all such appointments shall be submitted to the City
Council by a committee consisting of two (2) Councilmembers and the City
Manager. All members shall reside within the City's Growth Management Area
during their term on the board.
Section 3. That Section 2-278(b)(2) of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby
amended as follows:
See. 2-278. Functions.
(b) The commission shall also perform the following additional functions:
(2) Advising the City Council and city staff with regard to the identification and
evaluation of historic resources within the Growth Management Area and
providing information regarding the significance of the resources,the nature
and degree of threat to their preservation, and methods for their protection;
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 15th day of
February, A.D. 2005, and to be presented for final passage on the 1 st day of March, A.D. 2005.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk QS
Passed and adopted on final reading this 1 st day of March, A.D. 2005.
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