HomeMy WebLinkAbout1985-138-09/03/1985-REGARDING RAILROAD GRADE CROSSING PROTECTION IN THE NORTHEAST SECTOR OF THE CITY AND COMMITMENT, WHE RESOLUTION 85- 138
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
REGARDING RAILROAD GRADE CROSSING PROTECTION
IN THE NORTHEAST SECTOR OF THE CITY
AND COMMITMENT, WHEN ECONOMIC GROWTH REQUIRES,
TO A GRADE SEPARATION
WHEREAS, City seeks to foster growth consistent with its current high
quality of life; and
WHEREAS, City is primarily experiencing economic growth and
development along its southern lines; and
WHEREAS, City has developed a plan within its Land Development
Guidance System to encourage development to the north of the City and to
continue to ensure the City's overall high quality of life; and
WHEREAS, to further encourage growth and development along the City's
northerly lines, the City is among other things proposing to widen and
reconstruct Larimer County Road 50 between Interstate 25 and County Road 9;
and
WHEREAS, the pending development of a brewery and other anticipated
growth in the vicinity of said crossing is expected to result in an
increase in vehicular traffic by the year 1990 to four thousand one hundred
and ninety-five (4,195) vehicles per day; and
WHEREAS, by 1990 the train movements across said County Road 50 are
expected to increase from the present six (6) *rains per day to seven (7)
trains per day plus two (2) switching movements per day; and
WHEREAS, according to the present formulas of the Public Utilities
Commission, the combination of train and vehicular traffic at said crossing
would not, currently or during the next ten (10) years, suggest a grade
separation at said crossing; and
WHEREAS, said growth and development of areas adjoining the
above-described portion of County Road 50, and the development of other
areas which may impact said crossing, may at some future time cause the at
grade crossing now planned for said County Road 50 and the Burlington
Northern Railroad crossing to become increasingly hazardous to vehicular
traffic thereover and thereby negatively affect the City's quality of life,
and the health, safety and welfare of the City's citizens; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to establish a protective mechanism to assure
to the extent possible that unreasonably hazardous conditions on its
streets and roads are avoided.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that:
1. An "at grade" crossing, with flashing lights, gates and a raised
median, best protects the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the
City presently, and in the reasonably foreseeable future.
2. The City shall establish annual monitoring of vehicular traffic
along County Road 50 at the said railroad grade crossing.
3. The City shall require each proposed major development along
County Road 50 and in the vicinity to provide traffic projections at the
said crossing.
4. In the event the traffic monitored and projected, and the number
of daily trains using the crossing represent a hazard to the public or a
projected exposure to hazards, the City, then will exercise its best effort
in coordination with other applicable regulatory agencies to proceed with
the installation of a grade separation or other improvements as may be
technologically available to ensure an equivalent level of safety at said
crossing.
5. The City may take such other actions as are necessary to ensure to
the Public Utilities Commission that the aforesaid crossing shall continue
to afford an adequate level of safety, such actions to include, without
limitation, any efforts that the City may legally exert and deem reasonable
and necessary to minimize conflicts at the said crossing, including, within
the City's legal limitations, limitations on growth, development and
expansion of surrounding areas, including lands owned by Anheuser-Busch
Companies, its heirs, successors and assigns.
6. In furtherance of the foregoing, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
has agreed in writing to provide for a mechanism to ensure that
Anheuser-Busch and future owners of Anheuser-Busch property contribute
their proportionate share of the cost of such grade separation, or any
equivalent safety devices.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held this
3rd day of September, A.D. 1985.
Myor
ATTEST:
City Clerk