HomeMy WebLinkAbout154 - 10/20/1987 - ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO THE CITY CODE ORDINANCE NO. 154, 1987
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO THE NEW CODE
FOR THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS that the new
Code for the City of Fort Collins enacted by Ordinance No. 153, 1987, be
and hereby is amended as follows:
Section 1 . That Section 8-59(a) (1) (c) shall be amended to read as
follows:
%. The Charter and City Ordinances;"
Section 2. That Section 8-84 shall be amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 8-84. Sales and use tax fund.
There is hereby created a fund to account for the city's
sales and use tax revenue known as the sales and use tax fund.
Revenues shall include collections of sales and use taxes under
the City Ordinances. Expenditures shall be made for approved
purposes in connection with servicing the city's sales and use
tax bonds, notes and other similar debt. Expenditures shall
include transfers to other funds of the city and other
expenditures as approved by City Council . "
Section 3. That Section 25-296 shall be amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 25-296. Violations.
It shall be a violation of this Article for any lodging
provider or any other person subject to the tax levied herein to
refuse to make any return required in this Article or to make any
false or fraudulent return or any false statements in any return;
or to fail or refuse to make payment to the Financial Officer of
any taxes collected or due the city, or in any manner to evade
the collection and payment of the tax, or any part imposed by
this Article. It shall be unlawful for any person or lodging
customer to fail or refuse to pay such tax or evade the payment
or to aid or abet another in any attempt to evade the payment of
the tax imposed by this Article. Any person making a false
return or a return containing a false statement shall be guilty
of a violation of this Article. "
Section 4. That Section 26-126(b) be and hereby is deleted.
Section 5. That Section 26-462 shall be amended to read as follows :
"Sec. 26-462. Determination of rates.
The City Council finds and determines that the proposed rates
to be charged and collected by the city are reasonable rates to
be charged. The schedule of rates is hereinafter set forth and
adopted as the lawful rates for the city to charge and collect
from customers within and without the corporate limits of the
city for electricity furnished to the consumers connected to the
city electric distributing system in accordance with the terms
and provision of the schedule of rates hereinafter set forth in
this Division together with such general rules and regulations on
file with the City Clerk as shall be from time to time adopted by
the city, which rules and regulations shall govern and control in
all respects in rendering service and charging and collecting
rates for the sale of all electrical energy, and the schedule of
rates is hereby accepted and adopted as controlling in the matter
of the electrical service to be rendered until further modified
by the City Council . "
Section 6. That Section 26-464(j) shall be amended to read as
follows:
"(j) Contract period. All contracts under this schedule shall be
for a minimum period of thirty (30) days and, thereafter until
terminated upon ten (10) days' written notice to the city. "
Section 7. That Section 26-514(1) shall be amended to read as
follows:
"(1) Runoff coefficient.
a. Each lot or parcel of land shall be placed in one (1) of
five (5) specific categories hereinafter referred to as basic
categories of development , based upon the land use
characteristics for the lot or parcel . The runoff coefficient as
used in the engineering formula known as the rational method
shall be used as the basis for assigning rate factors for basic
categories of development as follows. . "
Section 8. That Section 26-543(a) (10) is hereby deleted and Section
26-543(a) (11) shall be amended to read as follows and shall be renumbered
as (10) :
"(10) fossil Creek Drainage Basin Master Drainageway Planning
Study, prepared by Simons, Li and Associates Inc. , dated August
1982. " g
Section 9. That Section 26-544 shall be amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 26-544. Stormwater facilities required for subdivisions.
Prior to the final approval of the plat of any subdivision,
the owners of the property being subdivided shall at such owners'
cost prepare a detailed drainage report and construction plans
for the installation of all stormwater facilities required for
such subdivision including any off-site facilities required to
convey stormwater to existing drains, channels, streams,
detention ponds or other points, all in conformity with the
master plan of the stormwater basins and the Design Criteria and
Construction Standards adopted by the City Council . The Director
of Utility Services shall review such reports, plans and cost
estimates and after approval of the same, the plat of the
subdivision may be approved subject to the city's being furnished
with acceptable assurance that such facilities will be
constructed and installed as indicated and approved. "
Section 10. That Section 29-6 shall be amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 29-6. Inspection.
The Building Permits and Inspections Administrator is hereby
empowered to cause any building, other structure or tract of land
to be inspected and examined and to order in writing the
remedying of any condition found to exist therein or thereat in
violation of any provision of Articles I-IV of this Chapter.
After any such order has been served, no work shall proceed on
any building, other structure or tract of land covered by such
order, except to correct such violation or comply with the
order. "
Section 11 . That Sections 29-41(a) and (b) shall be amended to read
as follows:
"Sec. 29-41 . Zoning Board of Appeals; duties and powers.
(a) Subject to being overruled by the City Council , the
Zoning Board of Appeals created in §2-441 shall have the powers
and duties in this Section in harmony with the purpose and intent
of Articles III and IV and in accordance with the public interest
and the most appropriate development of the neighborhood.
(b) The Zoning Board of Appeals shall hear and decide
appeals from, and review any order, requirement, decision or
determination made by, an administrative official charged with
enforcement of the regulations established by Articles III and
IV, except those determinations which pertain to matters
previously reviewed or approved by the Planning and Zoning
Board. "
Section 12. That Section 29-42(b) and (c) shall be amended to read as
follows:
"(b) For applications for variances of Articles III and IV,
the Zoning Board of Appeals shall mail a written notice of the
hearing at least seven (7) days prior to the hearing date to the
applicant and to owners of property adjacent to the property in
question. Failure to mail such notice to every property owner
due to clerical omissions shall not affect the validity of any
hearing or determination of the board.
(c) For applications for variances of Articles III and IV,
the applicant shall be charged a fee to cover the cost of
advertising and processing. Unless otherwise stated in the
Zoning Board of Appeals' minutes, all variance permits shall be
valid for a period of time not to exceed six (6) months from the
time such variance is granted. "
Section 13. That Section 2-443(1) and (2) shall be amended to read as
follows:
"Sec. 2-443. Functions.
The board shall have the following powers and duties:
(1) To hear and decide appeals from and review any order,
requirement, decision or determination made by an administrative
official charged with enforcement of the regulations established
by Chapter 29, Articles I-IV inclusive.
(2) To authorize upon appeal in specific cases, variances
from the terms of Chapter 29, Articles I-IV inclusive where by
reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness or slope of a
specific piece of property at the time of the enactment of
Chapter 29, Articles I-IV inclusive or by reason of exceptional
topographical conditions or other extraordinary and exceptional
situations or conditions of such piece of property including
situations or conditions which hinder the owner's ability to
install a solar energy system, the strict application of any
regulation enacted herein would result in peculiar and
exceptional practical difficulties to the owner of such property,
provided that such relief may be granted without substantial
detriment to the public good and without substantially impairing
the intent and purposes of Chapter 29, Articles I-IV inclusive,
and provided that no variance shall authorize any use in a zoning
district other than a use specifically permitted in such zoning
district. "
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered
published this 6th day of October, A.D. 1987, and to. be p�esented for final
passage on the 20th day of October, A.D. 1987., -!
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ATTEST:
City Clerk
1987.Passed and adopted on final reading this 20th day of October, A.D.
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ATTEST:
City Clerk