HomeMy WebLinkAbout2011-015-02/15/2011-ADOPTING REVISIONS TO CITY PLAN, THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN RESOLUTION 2011-015
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
ADOPTING REVISIONS TO "CITY PLAN," THE CITY'S
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
WHEREAS, in 1996 and 1997, the City Council, through an extensive planning effort,
created and adopted a new comprehensive plan for the City known as "City Plan," which consists
of various additional subparts and elements, among them, the Transportation Master Plan and its
related Master Street Plan, and the Pedestrian Plan; and
WHEREAS,City Plan contemplates periodic review and update to ensure that,as the City's
principal planning policy document, it was meeting current needs and expectations; and
WHEREAS, in keeping with the City Plan goal of periodic update, in 2010 the City staff
embarked upon a process to prepare major updates to City Plan,the Transportation Master Plan,the
Master Street Plan, and the Pedestrian Plan; and
WHEREAS,City staff,having completed the update effort with the assistance of consultants,
and having conducted an extensive public outreach process,has presented proposed amendments to
City Plan, the Transportation Master Plan, the Master Street Plan, and the Pedestrian Plan for
consideration; and
WHEREAS, these proposed amendments have been reviewed by the Planning and Zoning
Board and the Transportation Board and have received favorable recommendations; and
WHEREAS,City Council has determined that the proposed amendments embody the vision
of the City Council to be innovative by leading and serving as a model for other communities, and
to be sustainable by focusing on long-term human, economic, and environmental health of the City
and by attempting to connect the community both physically, technologically, and socially; and
WHEREAS, City Council has further determined that the 2010 planning effort respects and
advances the sustainability tenets of the City of economic, environmental,and human analysis; and
WHEREAS, City Council has determined that the 2010"Plan Fort Collins"effort to update
the City's Comprehensive Plan is in the best interests of the citizens of the City; and
WHEREAS, accordingly, City Council has determined that the proposed revisions to City
Plan, which is the City's Comprehensive Plan, should be adopted.
NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the City Council hereby finds that the existing Comprehensive Plan
known as"City Plan"is in need of amendment and that the 2010"Plan Fort Collins"effort to update
the City's Comprehensive Plan is in the best interests of the City.
Section 2. That the City Council hereby finds that the "Plan Fort Collins" proposed
amendments to City Plan will promote the public welfare and will be consistent with the vision,
goals,principles and policies as previously established in City Plan and as presently enunciated by
the City Council through these amendments.
Section 3. That the City's Comprehensive Plan, known as "City Plan", dated February
15, 2011, a copy of which is on file in the Office of the City Clerk, is hereby adopted.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Cou 1 f the City of Fort Co 'ns this 15th
day of February, A.D. 2011.
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-City Clerk