HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-017-01/18/2000-EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR NORTHERN COLORADO COMMUNITY SEPARATOR STUDY RESOLUTION 2000-17
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR THE NORTHERN COLORADO
COMMUNITY SEPARATOR STUDY
WHEREAS,in 1995,certain Northern Colorado regional cities and counties completed and
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 (which study and agreement are referred to collectively as the "Documents"); and
WHEREAS, the Documents envision the Northern Colorado regional 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 Documents propose the establishment
of 'community separators" and the communities of Fort Collins, Loveland, Berthoud, Milliken,
Windsor, Greeley and Larimer County have, for the past two years, worked cooperatively toward
the preparation of the study on community separators; and
WHEREAS,the resulting product is the"Northern Colorado Community Separator Study"
which study includes an overview of growth in the Northern Colorado Front Range region and
includes the results of a comprehensive survey that was conducted to better understand the views
ofNorthern Colorado residents on a range of issues associated with maintaining separation between
the communities and further includes a description of the location of potential separator areas and
actions needed to achieve the long term goals in maintaining community separation.
NOW, THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the Council hereby expresses its support for the "Northern Colorado
Community Separator Study" and pledges to take such actions as are reasonably necessary to
implement the recommendations of said study.
Section 2. That the Mayor be,and hereby is,authorized to execute a mutual proclamation
of the communities of Fort Collins,Loveland,Berthoud,Milliken,Windsor and Greeley,as well as
Larimer County, supporting the Northern Colorado Community Separator Study.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held this 18th day of January,
A.D. 2000.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk