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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006-090-08/15/2006-SUBMITTING TO THE REGISTERED ELECTORS OF THE CITY AT A SPECIAL CITY ELECTION TO BE HELD ON NOVEMBER RESOLUTION 2006-090 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS SUBMITTING TO THE REGISTERED ELECTORS OF THE CITY AT A SPECIAL CITY ELECTION TO BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 7, 2006, THE QUESTION OF WHETHER CITIZEN-INITIATED ORDINANCE NO. 142, 1999, PERTAINING TO THE RELOCATION OF THE COLORADO HIGHWAY 14 TRUCK ROUTE, SHOULD BE REPEALED WHEREAS,in 1997,the voters ofthe City approved the imposition ofthree separate quarter- cent sales and use taxes to fund the 'Building Community Choices"('BCC")Capital Improvement Program (the "Program"); and WHEREAS,the Program included three groups of capital projects, each of which was to be funded by revenues derived from one of the quarter-cent taxes; and WHEREAS, the BCC "Community Enhancement" projects included the Northeast Truck Route Project, the purpose of which project was to provide for the planning, design, right-of-way acquisition and/or other project costs associated with road improvements for an alternative truck route in the northeast quadrant of the City; and WHEREAS, in 1999, the voters of the City approved citizen-initiated Ordinance No. 142, 1999,(the"Ordinance")which re-directed the funds remaining in the BCC Community Enhancement fund that had been earmarked for the Northeast Truck Route Project and provided that they be used instead to fund an effort to relocate Colorado Highway 14 Truck Route ("the Truck Route") to a location outside the boundaries of the City's then-current Urban Growth Area, which is currently known as the Growth Management Area("GMA"); and WHEREAS, the Ordinance further stated that the City was to: (1) work with appropriate federal,state and county entities to pursue the relocation of the Truck Route; (2)encourage all truck traffic without local business in the City to use the existing U.S. Highway System rather than proceeding through the City en route to other destinations; (3) pursue the implementation of a funding plan for the relocation of the Truck Route,which plan would involve a combination of City, county,state and/or federal funding sources; and(4)permanently abandon the idea of relocating the Truck Route in the vicinity of East Vine Drive or locating a new Truck Route between the currently existing Truck Route and two miles north of Douglas Road (the "Prohibited Routes"); and WHEREAS, since the enactment of the Ordinance, the City has expended substantial sums to encourage truck traffic without local business in the City to use the existing U.S.Highway System, with only limited success; and WHEREAS, the fact that the City cannot consider the Prohibited Routes in its efforts to pursue the relocation of the Truck Route to a location outside the GMA have made it difficult,if not impossible, to reach agreement with Larimer County(the "County") and the Colorado Department of Transportation ("CDOT") about pursuing the relocation of the Truck Route; and WHEREAS,absent such agreement,the relocation of the Truck Route remains a low priority for CDOT and Larimer County; and WHEREAS, CDOT's and Larimer County's cooperation are essential to the successful relocation of the Truck Route; and WHEREAS,the City Council believes that it would be in the best interests of the citizens of the City to repeal the Ordinance,so that the$1.8 million remaining to be expended for the relocation of the Truck Route under the Ordinance can be used instead for other high priority, immediate transportation needs in the northeast quadrant of the City,and so that the City,the County and CDOT can pursue the idea of a viable bypass around the City for through traffic without the impediment of any prohibited routes; and WHEREAS, by Ordinance, No. 110, 2006, the City Council has, this same date, called a special election to be held in conjunction with the November general election for November 7,2006 and has reserved the right to submit additional measures to the voters at such election. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS that the question of whether to repeal the Ordinance shall be submitted to the registered electors of the City at the special City election to be held on November 7, 2006, in substantially the following form,provided,however,that the title of said measure,as shown below,maybe modified so as to read "A City-Initiated Measure" if, in the judgment of the Larimer County Clerk and Recorder,such modification is necessary to accommodate the number of ballot measures that are to be submitted to the electorate at the November 7, 2006 general election: CITY OF FORT COLLINS A CITY-INITIATED MEASURE TO REPEAL CITIZEN-INITIATED ORDINANCE NO. 142, 1999, PERTAINING TO THE PROPOSED RELOCATION OF THE COLORADO HIGHWAY 14 TRUCK ROUTE Shall citizen-initiated Ordinance No. 142, 1999, which requires the City of Fort Collins to work with other affected government agencies to pursue the relocation of the Colorado Highway 14 Truck Route to a location outside the City's Growth Management Area boundaries and which also requires the City to use all funds remaining from the "Building Community Choices" Capital Improvement Program for such relocation efforts, be repealed in its entirety, so that said ordinance would be of no further force and effect and the remaining funds referenced in the ordinance, in the approximate amount of$1.8 million, would instead be used either to further pursue the relocation of the Colorado Highway 14 Truck Route or to fund transportation capital improvement projects in the northeast quadrant of the City or for both such purposes? YES NO Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Co of the City of Fort Colli this 15th day of August, A.D. 2006. May ATTEST: City Clerk ,'