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Facility Addition, Phase II - Site Plan Advisory Review
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Comm._.ity Planning and Environmenta_ ,ervices
Current Planning
City of Fort Collins
TO: Planning and Zoning Board
FROM: Shelby Sommer, Associate Planner
DATE: January 19, 2006
RE: Criminal Activity near the Larimer County Community Corrections Facility
Staff has prepared the following memorandum to assist the Planning and Zoning Board
in understanding the issue of criminal activity near the Larimer County Community
Corrections Facility located at 2255 Midpoint Drive. The response has been spurred by
questions about the facility's residents and their impact on criminal activity in the
surrounding area, specifically on nearby bicycle/pedestrian trails.
As many as seventy-five (75) percent of the approximately 176 residents living at the
existing facility do not have drivers' licenses and they must rely on friends/family or
alternative transportation means (walk/bike) to get to work or their daily activity. It is
assumed that with the facility's expansion, the majority of the additional 151 residents
will also rely on friends/family or alternative transportation means to get to work or their
daily activity. Case managers work with the residents to develop a direct route to their
work or daily activity, and each resident must sign in and out upon arrival/departure
from the facility. Each resident is allotted a specific travel time, determined by the mode
of transportation. Higher risk offenders may also be monitored by GPS, if necessary.
Administration randomly monitors residents' attendance and travel time as regulated by
the State of Colorado. If residents violate the facility's rules, they can be terminated
from the Community Corrections Program and may be sentenced to prison.
The Community Corrections Facility administration has no knowledge of incidents
involving resident crimes on or near the area bicycle/pedestrian paths, nor in the
immediate neighborhood. In fact, facility residents are often assigned to pick up trash
on the area bicycle trails as a "recreational activity."
The City of Fort Collins Police Department has not found any incidents of significance at
or around 2255 Midpoint Dr. (Community Corrections) for the past year (according to
Laurie Frank, Crime Analyst for Police Services). The facility does not appear to pose
an increased risk of criminal activity for that immediate area. The clientele of Community
Corrections are very aware of the consequences if they are involved in criminal
behavior, especially if they engage in that behavior at or close to the Community
Corrections facility. There is no evidence to suggest that by having Community
Corrections clients utilizing the trail system around the facility increases the criminal
activity for the area.
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