HomeMy WebLinkAbout077 - 07/05/2017 - AMENDING THE FORT COLLINS TRAFFIC CODE REGARDING STADIUM EVENTS (2)ORDINANCE NO. 077, 2017
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING THE FORT COLLINS TRAFFIC CODE
REGARDING STADIUM EVENTS
WHEREAS, on August 20, 2013, by Ordinance No. 103, 2013, the City Council
established a residential parking permit zone program ("RP3") with the goal of reducing traffic
and excessive noise, preserving property values, and protecting residents in certain areas prone to
parking from nonresidents; and
WHEREAS, on April 13, 2015, in anticipation of the new on-campus stadium at
Colorado State University ("CSU"), the City and CSU entered into an Intergovernmental
Agreement to develop plans for mitigating the impacts of the stadium ("IGA"); and
WHEREAS, the IGA recognizes major events at CSU's stadium will impact parking and
traffic in nearby neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to minimize impacts to neighborhoods near the stadium by
providing a new and separate violation of the City's Traffic Code for parking in an RP3 during a
major stadium event; and
WHEREAS, the City Council believes it is necessary for the preservation of the health,
safety, and welfare of the City's citizens to amend the Traffic Code to reflect a new violation for
parking in an RP3 during major stadium events.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and
findings contained in the recitals set forth above.
Section 2. That Section 1214.5 of the Traffic Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 1214.5. Permitted Parking
6) Only vehicles that have been properly permitted pursuant to
Article V of Chapter 24 of the City Code may park within a residential
parking permit zone during, or within the four hours before the official
start time of, a stadium event. Any person violating any regulation set
forth in 1214.5(1), (2), (4), or (5) during, or within the four hours before
the official start time of, a stadium event, shall be subject to the penalties
of this Subsection (6).
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a) For purposes of this Subsection, a stadium event is defined
as any event held at the on-campus stadium at Colorado State
University at which attendance is reasonably anticipated by
Colorado State University or the City to exceed 12,000 persons:
b) There is hereby established a rebuttable presumption that a
stadium event is occurring or has occurred when Colorado State
University or the City has provided advance notice of such event to
the general public:
I) on its official website;
II) on any of its generally used social media web
pages;
III) in a local newspaper of general circulation; or
IV) through the use of temporary signs near the stadium
on the same calendar day as the stadium event.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 6th day of
June, A.D. 2017, and to be presented for final passage on the 5th day of July, A.D. 2017.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 5th day of July, A.D. 2017.
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