HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981-183-12/15/1981-RELATIVE TO THE VOTES PROVIDED TO THE FORT COLLINS URBANIZED AREA THROUGH THE METROPOLITAN PLANNING RESOLUTION 81- 183
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS_
RELATIVE TO THE VOTES PROVIDED TO THE FORT
COLLINS URBANIZED AREA THROUGH THE METROPOLITAN
PLANNING ORGANIZATION
WHEREAS, Federal statutes require urbanized areas with populations of
over 50,000 inhabitants to form metropolitan planning organizations ,
and
WHEREAS, according to the 1980 decennial census, the City of Fort
Collins' population is in excess of 50,000 inhabitants and
WHEREAS, the City of Fort Collins is a participant in a metropolitan
planing organization which, in addition to Fort Collins, consists of
Larimer County, City of Greeley and other communities within the Greeley
Urbanized area, and
WHEREAS the Metropolitan Planning Orqanization has devised a plan
whereby the Greeley Urbanized Area and the Fort Collins Urbanized Area are
to have ten votes each on the Metropolitan Policy Board, and
WHEREAS, the City of Fort Collins and Larimer County have agreed to
split the ten votes of the Fort Collins Urbanized Area on the basis of
their respective populations, and
WHEREAS, according to the 1980 decennial census the City of Fort
Collins ' population is 65,092, and the County of Larimer's population in
the urbanized area around Fort Collins is 13,195
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that
1 Each urbanized area participating in the Metropolitan Planning
Organization shall be entitled to ten votes to be distributed among the
various communities participating in the Metropolitan Planning Organiza-
tion, and
2 That of the ten votes to which the Fort Collins Urbanized Area is
entitled, the City of Fort Collins shall receive and shall exercise 8
votes, and Larimer County shall exercise 2 votes
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of
Fort Collins held this 15th day of December, 1981
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