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OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR THE FORT COLLINS-TIMNATH-WINDSOR
COMMUNITY SEPARATOR STUDY
WHEREAS, certain Northern Colorado cities and counties have adopted the Northern
Colorado Regional Planning Study and, in 1997, entered into a comprehensive Intergovernmental
Agreement with regard to managing and planning urban growth patterns in the region, and in 2000
accepted the Northern Colorado Community Separator Study (which studies and agreement are
referred to collectively as the "Documents"); and
WHEREAS, the Documents envision the Northern Colorado communities as consisting of
neighbors that (1) work together cooperatively while remaining physically separate, (2) retain their
individual characteristics and identities, and (3) carefully consider and plan the areas between them
that are appropriate for development; and
WHEREAS, the Documents recognize the rapid growth that presently exists in the Northern
Front Range area and observe that the affected communities are extending their boundaries toward
each other with the result that such communities will merge into an extended metropolitan area with
no apparent boundaries or separation between them unless the communities cooperatively plan to
mitigate and avoid such merger; and
WHEREAS, in response to the foregoing concern, the communities of Fort Collins, Timnath,
Windsor, and Larimer County have, for the past two years, worked cooperatively toward the
preparation of a study on community separator opportunities and implementation actions; and
WHEREAS, the resulting product is the "Fort Collins-Timnath-Windsor Community Separator
Study" which study includes a detailed inventory of existing conditions, community separator
opportunities, and describes an implementation program with actions and roles recommended for each
participating jurisdiction.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that the City Council hereby expresses its support for the "Fort Collins-Timnath-Windsor
Community Separator Study," dated February 2003, and states its intention to take such actions as are
reasonably necessary to implement the recommendations of said study.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held this 6th day of May, A.D.
2003.
Mayor
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City Clerk