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1. Have you reviewed the Vision, Policy Choices, and Proposed Directions
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Yes (attended June 29 and/or 30
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68.5%
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Yes (downloaded materials online)
29.2%
76
Yes (watched video(s) online)
3.5%
9
No
5.8%
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Support
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Leaning toward supporting (but
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29.1%
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Neutral
5.1%
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Do not support
10.1%
8
Other (please explain below)
2.5%
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Vision
Do you agree with the proposed Vision Directions (on pages 5 and 6)?
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1. Re: economic health - Vision should NOT be limited to "primary jobs."
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 3:27 PM
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2. None of these "Vision Directions" ever leads to results because they are
meaningless to the staff and council not directly involved in developing them. Since
thats the majority of people, the business of government will continue to deal with
its daily business as it comes along.
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3. • Question the inclusion of:
o Locally produced food?
o Nationally recognized destination for arts and culture?
o World Class Communications Technology
• Pleased to see economic vitality included – could be enhanced.
• Very expensive items embedded in the vision (carbon foot print, stormwater
management, etc)
• Livable Wage – while it’s appropriate for the City to support creation of primary
jobs that generate good paying jobs, the City should be cautious about using the
term ‘livable wage’ because it can connote specific and controversial policies.
• Fiscal Sustainability/Broadly shared prosperity – what does this mean?
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 10:42 AM
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4. Question whether the city should use the phrase "livable wage". Locally produced
food, nationally recognized for arts/culture and world class communication
technology....can we really do all of this? High cost of stormwater and carbon
footprint decreases? How much do these cost? Also....is this just fancy marketing
rhetoric....Fiscal sustainability/broadly shared prosperity?
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 6:33 AM
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5. will submit via email
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 11:41 AM
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6. Environmental Resources: a healthy river integrated into the life of the community,
especially historic Old Town.
Community Livability. nature accessible in the city. See above
Culture,Parks and Recreation: "for all types of users" The River needs more
attention.
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 6:38 AM
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7. - Question the concept of locally grown food.
- Concerned about the open space references. We have enough open space, what
we are missing is the revenues for operations and maintenance.
Sat, Jul 10, 2010 5:41 AM
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8. Stronger emphasis on strenghening economic development. Business creates jobs. Fri, Jul 9, 2010 3:43 PM
Jobs create income. Income helps support good quality of life.
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9. Tax Dollars should not be used for these non-essential programs especially in light
of the poor economy and need to raise taxes to pay for basic fire, police, streets
and maintenance servies. Perhaps once the city budget is funded with a surplus,
new programs can be evaluted, but this is the wrong time to expand nonessential
city services or to increase taxes to provide for these programs.
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 1:19 PM
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10. The Triple Bottom line is the guiding force behind true sustainability. To be truly
effective all three need to be in balance. This is a dynamic process and requires
continuous management. As a long term vision this makes perfect sense.
If the new organizational structure is as described the City administration should be
in alignment organizationally with these 7 categories.
11. I have some concerns about the potential economic impact of the following
referenced areas:
-The reference to a "livable wage". It a vague term that can mean many things and
create controversy depending on how it is implemented.
Reducing the carbon footprint with no reference to economic impact.
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Do you agree with the proposed Vision Directions (on pages 5 and 6)?
12. I would like to see more along the lines of four or five smaller neighborhood
gathering centers for parks, shopping, and entertainment so people don't always
have to drive downtown. A park with a small lifestyle center would encourage local
neighborhoods to congregate, play, eat, and enjoy close by, walking or bike riding
instead of driving downtown. Also, parks have no eateries or shopping next door,
defeating the idea of playing and shopping/eating in the same area.
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13. An obvious move forward towards the stated objectives for the Poudre river group
would be a whitewater park. The summary did not reach this level of specifics, but
a whitewater park would be a centerpiece for the city, encourage foot traffic and
development north of Old Town, and work within the existing brownfields/flodplain
constraints. Golden and Lyons, among other Front Range communities, have
documented notable economic benefits that far offset the initial costs. A whitewater
park would also provide additional initiative and justification for instream flows,
which are critical for a healthy river/community interface. A whitewater park could
easily be integrated into parks/rec and open-space infrastructure, and the hydraulic
features could be designed to improve habitat/refugia for the existing population of
cold water fish, and provide fishing opportunities for able-bodied and disabled
fisherman. Interpretive signage could also be integrated to provide a sense of Ft
Collins history and the natural ecology of this rich and diverse interface between
the mountains and plains.
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14. You covered all the areas.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 10:06 AM
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15. Economic vitality is important. Concerned about "living wage" and what it might
mean to future policies and mandates.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 9:07 AM
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16. The vision should identify at least the need, if not methodology and benchmarks,
for evaluating progress towards strategic outcomes. The statement identifies and
rationalizes triple bottom line objectives though appears to suggest environmental
and social objectives can be achieved in the absence of economically sustainable
practices.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 7:07 AM
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17. The "Ecomomic Health" vision is weak. Just because it is the first topic doesn't
make it a stand out vision. The words "livable wage" and "broadly shared
prosperity" sound like socialism instead of "if you don't sow, you don't reap". I'm
very concerned where we are headed with the lack of a strong Economic Health
vision.
Mon, Jul 5, 2010 9:07 AM
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18. Needs to incorporate more the idea of costs and how they may be paid for in the
vision.
Sun, Jul 4, 2010 7:55 PM
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19. I do not support other ideas, actually I support less ideas.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:59 PM
It seems that Fort Collins Government will be trying to decide what types of
employment we want - giving special preference to some and not to others. It is not
governments jog to play favorites and discriminate.
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20. Question the inclusion of locally produced food. Also wonder why we are focused
on a nationally recognized destination for arts and culture. Pleased to see
Economic Vitality included. Not sure about the term livable wage. And think we
need to be aware of the very expensive (carbon footprint) items included in the
vision.
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 4:10 PM
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21. A vision is necessarily vague; the devil is in the details. I don't support Fort Collins
having a goal of being "nationally recognized" for anything.
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 3:58 PM
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22. Very good and laudable ideas. Implementation appears to be the issue that I have Thu, Jul 1, 2010 2:43 PM
concern with. I thought that City Plan was an excellent work and great vision for the
City's development and future however I have seen it cast aside time and time
again and even referred to as "just a suggestion, or idea" rather than the actual
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Do you agree with the proposed Vision Directions (on pages 5 and 6)?
plan of action that we all agreed upon when it was created. It seems that whenever
finacial interests, primarily, have ideas that differ with our "plan", we simply change
the rules to accomodate those interests. If we continue to do that, our City will
resemble other big cities, full of strip malls and big box stores and we will lose the
quality of life that makes this such a special place. If we are to have true vision we
must create a specific plan with rules, and be willing to adhere to them out of
principal and not be swayed by those with money who don't care about our vision
or quality of life.
23. You are out in la-la land.
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 9:54 AM
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Planning like this will never be a substitute for leadership. It is a conceit that
planners, like our City Manager, share. We saw the same conceit embodied in the
Climate Action Plan, as demonstrated by the 32 car pile-up known as the Pilot
Trash District proposal. That one example underscores what I am talking about in
spades.
Plan Fort Collins might have produced a useful work procuct to date if the
Pollyannism had been left behind and a dose of reality had been injected in its
place. Example: What in the world is a Zero Energy District? A blackout? An island
of extreme achievement.
However, the most compelling argument to suggest you all have your head in the
clouds is the headlines in the papers this morning. How do you create a world class
community in a city where justice is a game?
History has given us many attempts to define utopia. Horace Greeley wrote a
chapter here in Northern Colorado. Would my attempts to define a future for Fort
Collins be much different than "Community Vision in Focus"? Probably not. Alot of
people could have written this. But you are not asking for literary criticism here and
Fort Collins needs much more than a description of shangri-la updated for the 21st
Century.
Despite all this criticism, I'm going to encourage you to keep it up. Change often
comes in radical shifts in response to obvious problems. Plan Fort Collins could not
be a better portrait of the gulf that exists between Fort Collins City Government and
reality. It is not because the planning process does not identify many, many issues
that require attention, but it ignores the complexities and outside forces that make
solutions and improvements extremely difficult.
You could not be crafting a more compelling argument for a sea change in Fort
Collins if you tried. You could not be documenting the overarching arrogance that
characterizes our municipal corporation with more finality.
Eric Sutherland
(970) 224 4509
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Do you agree with the triple bottom line approach to sustainability for Fort Collins?
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Support
59.7%
46
Leaning toward supporting (but
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20.8%
16
Neutral
6.5%
5
Do not support
7.8%
6
Other (please explain below)
5.2%
4
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1. dI embrace the triple bottom line. Greater improvements need to be made in the
"social" arena. Greater balance needs to be applied re: subsidies. Currently TIFs
promote development while costing city revenue which could be applied to basic
services which address all residents.
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2. Nice words for a useless phrase.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 11:32 AM
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3. • Concept of sustainability is based on the false premise of scarcity and does not
take into consideration market induced innovation and resource discoveries. Also,
as applied in Fort Collins, it is a construct to show support for the economy while
primarily focusing on the environment.
• Add adequate water supply into Environmental Indicators
• Question Plan Fort Collins as a decision making tool versus a visioning tool
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 10:43 AM
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Greater emphasis needs to be applied to preventative health issues, particularly to
air pollution and mobile sources.
Carbon emissions need greater priority.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 6:36 AM
4. I fell that this plan effort is a visioning process....and with the attendance at the
event I attended on 6/30....not many in the City are participating. That being
said...please add "water supply" into the Environment indicators section. Do you
use the words susatinability to mean environmental efforts or are you implying their
is scarcity in our city?
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5. Prior emphasis has been in areas other than economic. I hope this is not in name
only and it truly a valued factor.
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 3:44 PM
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6. People are having difficulty finding work to make ends meet. The city needs to fund Fri, Jul 9, 2010 1:22 PM
a much broader economic health and vitality effort to attract sales tax and jobs. The
three buckets are good, but need to be better balanced toward econmic health,
which is the engine that drives the tax base to pay for the environmental and social
bwenefits our community enjoys.
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Do you agree with the triple bottom line approach to sustainability for Fort Collins?
7. It seems to be written from the perspective of scarity without considering the
markets ability to innovate and grow.
Need to define "primary jobs" referenced on page 5.
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 11:38 AM
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8. need to focus on job and wealth creation which will in the long run help the
envoronment
Thu, Jul 8, 2010 3:08 PM
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9. No matter what, economic issues will always be the main driver. The social and
entertainment are more ancillary items.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 2:54 PM
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10. Sustainable water supply will be important to our communicy - would like to see
water supply added to environmental inidactors.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 9:08 AM
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Tue, Jul 6, 2010 7:15 AM
11. There needs to be some recognition that objectives that lack economic
sustainability or breach reasonable fiscal limitations will fail to deliver social or
environmental return. We appear to be promoting a "green bubble", whereunder
the objective value of these policies can't be supported in the long-term by the near
-term and ongoing costs of such lofty ambitions.
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12. In theory, the concept is admirable. In practice there is inordinate emphasis on
social and environmental benefit without adequate analysis of fiscal constraint.
Apparent throughout this document is a strong presumption that all environmental
objectives can be attained without detrimental economic consequence. Further,
economic health is treated as afterthought while environmental objectives are
vigorous, comprehensive and free of financial constraint.
Mon, Jul 5, 2010 6:58 PM
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13. I could lean toward supporting it if it didn't appear as though the environmental
piece of the triple bottom line weren't smothering the other two pieces. Fort Collins
already feels like the environmental zealots are smothering the socio-ecomonics
right out of affordability.
Mon, Jul 5, 2010 9:09 AM
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14. It looks to me like 'sustainability' will be the trump card that will have veto power
over everything else.
Who gets to decide what is 'sustainability'. The definitions in the documents are not
concrete at all, but
seem to be watered down just enough to let bureaucrats decide what they like and
don't like, and call
whatever they like 'sustainable'. It sounds ripe for corruption.
I'm not for encouraging polluters, but there is a big difference from restricting
pollution and forcing people
to drive certain cars (or to drive at all), forcing local owned preferences, avoiding
"larger corporate and franchise retailers" - It is not governments job to pick who
they want to win or lose.
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15. We need to make sure that our economic sustainability measures are not just
measures of "bigger", such as the number of jobs, businesses, or gross revenue.
Per capita measures are a better measure.
Eventually, Fort Collins will "build out" and we will not get "bigger" and should not
equate "bigger" with "better"
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 5:03 PM
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16. Would like to see "adequate water supply" included in the Environmental Indicators. Thu, Jul 1, 2010 4:11 PM
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17. If all three were actually given equal weight perhaps, however that is never the
case. In reality, money always talks and is given the highest consideration.......a
good example is the BP oil disaster. Had proper safety measures been put in place,
the disaster may well not have happened, however, the economic bottom line won
out and now we all will suffer. Sometimes, the environmental and/or social sides
need to be given the most weight, and I don't see that happening without
tremedous public outcry or demands and even then, money typically buys it's way.
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Do you agree with the triple bottom line approach to sustainability for Fort Collins?
"Triple Bottom Line" is a nice idea but whether it can actually be utilized
successfully and reasonably has yet to be proven.
18. What are the factors that will determine if Fort Collins can obtain or contribute to
any measure of the lofty goals described here?
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We live in an unsustainable world. That is not pessimism. It is science. Nobody
would care one wit about the word sustainability if the prospect of unsustainability
were not writ large across the entire global predicament.
This one section alones demonstrates the appalling sophistry practiced by the city
management and their very expensive consultants. Certainly, most of the rest of
the thinking community has already moved far beyond the paradigm of consultants
pretending to offer solutions to very scary and very compicated problems. Judy
Dorsey and the Brendle group keep up the facade though. It is as if continually
refreshing the langauage used to gloss over the frightful prospect that we are not
leaving our children the same opportunities we inherited is a sufficient work
product.
There are people in this community that have worked very hard to create a less
unsustainable world. I am one of them. On the whole, City Government has been
an impediment, not a source of help. It is hard to imagine that Plan Fort Collins is
going to do much to change any of that.
Election 2011 might though. Please keep up the good work.
Eric Sutherland
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indicator. How do you plan to measure self-sufficiency households in the social
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1. The June 29th program was a consultant led failure. Some programs re-tweeked
for the June 30 program.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 11:58 AM
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2. • Economy, Economy, Economy
• Good transportation network supports the economy.
• Good economy supports the arts.
• Must balance environmental impact with economic impact.
• Let the market drive our future.
• Cost-benefit. Make sure we are taking an honest look at what these things are
going to cost.
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3. Thank you for all of the effort to have citizen particpate.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 7:14 AM
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4. Thanks for doing a tough job.
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 7:32 AM
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The on-line segment is nicely done.
Regarding the POUDRE RIVER
I am concerned that public input to policy relies on such a small sample (roughly 20
at the most recent River Focus Group.) No great recommendations about how to
substantially increase that,but I do think more could be done (with pretty modest
investment) by providing links to other similar efforts.
We need to present the community, the planners, and the policy makers with
options that show something other than STATUS QUO and SAN ANTONIO
RIVERWALK.
Flood plain planning. I believe that one policy for the entire river segment in FC is
unduly restrictive. The river has some obvious floodway distinctions (using the map
presented at the 7/8 focus group). For example, the stretch between the Power
Plant and Lincoln street is distinctive.
5. I really appreciate the opportunity to be heard. I'm concerned that comments to on- Fri, Jul 9, 2010 1:43 PM
line surveys may not be a balanced sample of the community's opinions. I've
attended several of the Plan FC meetings and it often seems like a large contingent
of no growth antibusiness activists are in the meetings. How do you guaranty that
they don't stack the deck by completing surveys like this one mulitple times?
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6. Great job on soliciting input. This is probably the 6th invitation I've had to participate Tue, Jul 6, 2010 2:24 PM
and the 3rd opportunity I've taken to do so.
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7. This policy exercise entails a significant departure from the current City Plan
document under a timeframe that precludes a reasonable discourse of its content
and objectives. This appears to appease the majority of the current Council and a
select constituency as sole beneficiaries rather than a reflection of the larger
community and collective vision. To wit, a 99-page document is released a week
before the 4th of July holiday with expectations of informed and comprehensive
feedback 3 days later in person, or 2 weeks later via online survey. Given the
comprehensive and intricate influences of this document, each policy area is
deserving of greater consideration. However, the Council has directed staff to push
this process in its totality at such a brisk pace so as to limit the level of
consideration the community is allowed to provide.
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SLOW THIS PROCESS DOWN!
The majority of content and interactions are not well understood by the community
without an objective opportunity to discuss the purpose, implications and outcomes
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- both intended and adverse. Two community meetings immediately prior to a major
holiday weekend is hardly reasonable if integrity of process is considered. When
the Plan is eventually exposed for what it truly intendes to deliver, considerable
time and energy of staff will be rendered as lost during a time in whiuch the City is
claiming poverty.
8. The process for undertaking a major revision of this critical planning document has Mon, Jul 5, 2010 7:34 PM
failed citizens by its highly charged predisposition to a narrow political objective.
The document clearly attempts to redirect public resources from basic services and
measured urban development towards actualization of uptopian ideals free of
economic constraint. Retirement of this Council is an extremely questionable
motivation for this process.
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9. At the June 28 event, I felt we needed more time to cover the topic at the various
presentations.
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10. Already provided email for Plan Fort Collins newsletter.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:02 PM
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11. We need to be very focused on the economic impact of options - both from a
business attraction/retention standpoint but also cost for business/citizens.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 9:55 AM
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Be realistic about how folks will get from point A to point B - cars are and will
continue to be a primary mode!
Need to invest in key corridors and not be distracted with vehicle alternatives/trails
and system management/mobility management.
Need to look at the transportation utility fee as an option for funding!
Reducing services prevents Ft. Collins from attracting and retaining businesses
(jobs) and makes Ft. Collins less desireable for citizens/potential citizens.
12. My comment for future meetings, work on visuals. Difficult for folks in the back to
see!!
Also, survey somewhat difficult to follow. May be helpful to provide some detail
regarding options.
13. I have 30 years Commercial Real Estate experience and I know most lenders,
including those making low income housing loans. I gave my card to at least one
staffer at the meeting and I am happy to do what I can to help.
14. I have included my email at each event I have attended and yet never received any Thu, Jul 1, 2010 9:35 PM
updates or notices from the Planning team. I have included it again here, but am
not confident that it is going to do any good.
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15. I attended the Plan Fort Collins conference June 29. I would suggest that in the
future the city demonstrated its ability to plan and manage by keeping to the
published time schedule. The introductions (which were not that essential and
could easily have been done in less time) ran way over time, so that the first
session started 15 minutes late. I went to the Transportation session. It was
scheduled for 6:30-7, but ran from 6:45 to 7:25. So when I got to the second
session on Budget Resourcing it was almost over.
(apparently somebody was staying on schedule).
The key pad idea was interesting, but in the Transportation session the structure of
it was difficult: each time we had to say if we liked something BEFORE we knew
what the other options are: makes more sense to me to let us see all options, then
rank them. The only part of this that the leaders hurried was deleting the answers
before many of us in the audience could see them.
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The entire process felt like just going through motions for a lot of pre-determined
concepts.
16. The city should allow intensification of land use to allow for primary employment
and redevelopment at higher densities.
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17. The history of the phrase "triple bottom line" is really interesting when compared to
Fort Collins infatuation with this concept.
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The phrase was first used by private sector companies that were attempting to
redefine their corporate mission beyond simply making profits. This development
did represent a real step forward. It was a recognition of a world where corporate
power had become so omnipotent that business decisions could play a significant
role in the evolution of society and the planet. It was also a recognition of the fact
that delivering on more than customer demands could improve the returns for the
equity holders of the enterprise. Wealth has become so concentrated in the United
States and the world that it became obvious that monetary enrichment might not be
very rewarding if the world we live in suffered significant degradation.
In this role, "triple bottom line" thinking became something of a reincarnation of
other historically significant concepts such as "noblesse oblige". However, it was
also an homage to the success of public institutions that had created enormous
prosperity in the modern world as a result of collective enterprises which served a
very broad public interest; schools, roads, land reclamation.. you name it.
In short, it has always been about the "triple bottom line" where the public sector
has been concerned. We are all the beneficiaries of a rich history which embraced
this concept in nearly every aspect of public life. If the "triple bottom line" was not
the objective in the last 1 1/2 centuries of Fort Collins' history, what was the
operational paradigm? Why did John C Mathews and others give their fortunes
away to land Colorado Agriculture and Mechanical here?
This is why it is absolutely, revoltingly absurd for Fort Collins City Government to
somehow be co-opting a phrase from the private sector - that was previously lifted
from the public sector - to somehow redefine the mission of a public agency in the
21st Century. It is the most ugly, obvious indication of the muddy, oily gulf that
separates City leaders from reality.
In the specific example of the city's electric utility, I can state my case with the
comfortable understanding that the heavy lifting required to prove my point will be
done for me every time utilities officials take a seat in City Hall and begin to move
their teeth. They not only miss the sweet spot time after time, they are out in orbit.
PRPA is the City's largest vendor by at least a factor of 10. The largest checks that
are written go to PRPA, which, by the way, is partly owned by the ratepayers of
Fort Collins. What does it say that the people signing the checks, and I mean all of
them - the City Manager, the CFO and the utiltities director - are so ignorant of the
cost structure of PRPA as to suggest that merely reducing demand charges
somehow equates to a cost savings? It says ya all needs to do some think'n. There
is no kind way to say it.
Keep up the good work.
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Response
Percent
Respons
Count
Support
59.4%
38
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
20.3%
13
Neutral
9.4%
6
Do not support
10.9%
7
Other (please explain)
0.0%
0
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1. I support job creation in the "green" job category where say remodeling permits for
residents are waved. I don't support for-going taxes to encourage development.
The City must be cognizant of resource consumption. Improved conservation of all
materials is a win win for all including future generations.
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2. • The area lost over 6,000 jobs during the Great Recession and it will take at least 3 Mon, Jul 12, 2010 10:50 AM
years to replace those jobs.
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3. Yes! Yes! Yes!
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4. We must make this a higher priority than in the past.
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5. support local businesses not just box retail.
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6. I see no clarity of vision, just weak words on paper
Mon, Jul 5, 2010 9:15 AM
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7. Particular support needs to be given to jobs in the manufacturing sector associated
with the identified clusters.
Sun, Jul 4, 2010 8:03 PM
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8. No - Why have "Target Industry Clusters" and "emerging industries tied to
sustainability" and "smaller employers in growth industries" given preferential
treatment? What bureaucrat gets to decide which employers fall into each of these
categories?
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9. The city government should not spend energy on job creation. That is a private
sector responsibility, along with the Chamber of Commerce, Northern Colorado
Economic Development Corporation, private companies, developers, etc. We
should also spend no effort trying to attract companies or people to come to Fort
Collins. More people means more services required and not necessarily more
revenue
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10. This strategy is poorly crafted. We should partner for entrepreurship only
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11. Not the City's job
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Percent
Respons
Count
Develop a Fort Collins Community
Index
38.9%
21
Support the expansion of the
Colorado State University Energy
& Engines Conversion Lab
74.1%
40
Assess the competitive position of
Fort Collins
61.1%
33
Activate a sustained marketing
strategy
59.3%
32
Facilitate availability of land with
characteristics that match targeted
businesses
72.2%
39
Other (please explain)
18.5%
10
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1. I do not believe the CITY should invest money in these items. The private sector
and groups such as Chamber, Econ Councils should support these.
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2. Not supportive of City involvement in these areas.
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3. Primary employer retention program
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4. I think the city should look at it's self in relation to the region and work with other
municipalities to market the region. Also....how can the city help existing
businesses to grow?
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5. Competitive incentives
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6. Create a strong economic development team like other front range cities.
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7. Retention of primary employers
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8. I don't know a lot about this topic. I'll leave this up to the pros.
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9. fort collins should be more business friendly. Dont limit land use to the city's vision
but let the market dictate what the use should be.
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10. The city government is limited in its ablity to influence job creation.
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11. Engage a 'community-business roundtable' program whereunder community
members, public institutions and business leaders hold an informed dialogue of
what needs are being met and where improvements or efficiencies might be
achieved. A sustained commitment by the City to listen and respond to needs
brought forward by its constiuents rather than as it too often occurs under the
present system.
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12. Stop pretending that local government can predict and/or control market dynamics
such as economically sustainable technologies, industry trends and consumer
preference.
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13. If the city wants to do reports, freely available to anyone, or to market itself as a
great place to live that's fine. Personally I think it's a waste to 'market Fort Collins'.
All of the "Best Places to <fill in the blank>" various magazines have do a pretty
good job of marketing us for free.
I do not support the city using my taxpayer money to decide which employers
should get tax breaks while others don't. Why not not hire someone to make that
decision, and lower everyone's taxes.
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14. I think the city needs to partner with the Chamber of Commerce, CSU, and Larimer
County to market the region.
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 10:43 PM
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15. The city should do less for job creation and focus on what they are charterd to do
what only government can do; that is providing infrastructure and services that
meet the needs of the residents; electrical, transportation, planning, open space,
public safety, etc. Working on job creation defocuses the city government and
elected officials from what they should be working on.
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16. Develop a coordinated effort between CSU/City/FRCC to provide appropriate
workforce training.
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17. We should not recreate the work already done by NCEDC, Chamber, etc
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18. Primary employer retention; update city's economic plan
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19. Compare Ft. Collins Lands w/ Windsor, Timnath, Loveland. Promote should reach
+2 months or less to a major employer for land.
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20. Primary employment job retention
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21. Ft Collins can't rest on it's past successes & track record. We need to complete in
the new decade.
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22. Everything possible to encourage primary jobs should be done.
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Recognize that all fiscal decision making and public policy is wholly dependent
upon a vibrant commercial environment.
Engage the business community in an ongoing "customer satisfaction" evaluation
to determine policy refinements and process efficiencies.
Primary jobs puts $ in residents pocket that gets spent in the community & turns
over several times
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23. I need to study these choices more before I'm comfortable voting - they feel very
vague to me.
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24. Employer Retention
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25. Lost over 6000 jobs in the great recession will take 3+ years to replace
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26. The marketing is important. This is a wonderful community that is not well known.
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27. None of the above
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28. Ensure adequate funding for NCEDC.
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Do you agree with the policy direction proposed in EH2-A: Maximize Retail Retention and Recruitment?
Response
Percent
Respons
Count
Support
25.4%
16
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
27.0%
17
Neutral
12.7%
8
Do not support
31.7%
20
Other (please explain)
3.2%
2
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1. Do not like the word MAXIMIZE. I htink we should start looking at revenue
opportunities other than sales tax.
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2. • City’s focus should be on attracting primary employers to put disposable income
in resident’s pockets.
• Do support parts of the goal: Foothills Mall, Mid Town, Retail Retention.
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3. Definitely support the focus on the mall and the mid-town redevelopment efforts.
However, our focus should be on attracting primary employers. Retail and housing
will follow if the jobs are here. With City revenue so dependant on sales tax the
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Do you agree with the policy direction proposed in EH2-A: Maximize Retail Retention and Recruitment?
retail component is important, but primary jobs are the what give our citizens the
discretionary spending to support the retail base. Also, reconsider the Prospect and
I-25 area as a retail hub.
4. Emphasis should be on creating high paying, high quality jobs. Some refer to this
as primary employers.
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5. This is a challenging but important issue for the City to consider. We have become Fri, Jul 9, 2010 2:07 PM
too dependent on retail sales tax. It has a place but not to the degree it exists
today. There should be multiple strategies to reduce this dependency. Residentially
assessed users fees for uses engaged in by residents should be considered such
as for parks, trails, and residential streets. Residents should pay their own way.
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6. Absolutely essential given it is the main source or the city general fund.
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7. Focus on primary employers and the let disposable income generated drive the
market.
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8. again, inexperienced in this topic. Looking for those with understanding to make
these decisions.
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9. Focus should be on higher paying job creation, retail will develop to support our
core industries and primary employers..
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 9:14 AM
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10. Retail follows opportunity and should not be contrived through distortion of the
economic landscape. At most, the City should identify preferred locations of various
retail segments and concentration, facilitate a predictable development process and
allow the market to choose winners and losers.
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11. Focus on primary jobs first
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12. I do not support the city entering into tax-cut agreements with some establishments Sat, Jul 3, 2010 12:35 AM
and not others.
The Front Range Village extra-tax isn't great, but (as far as I know) it was agreed to
by the builder and the people who bought/rent properties there. They get to decide
how much to tax extra for that development, and the citizens get to decide if they
would like to shop there or somewhere else.
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13. We can work on enhancing retail within the core of the community. We should not
encourage development at I-25 interchanges because it will increase VMT and
sprawl, and destroy our scenic gateways.
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14. Retail follows core job creation and should be viewed that way. Retail is low paying. Thu, Jul 1, 2010 6:34 PM
Support small business retail only vs bix box / national chains so as to give locals a
chance to own something not just work for low wage and corporate sweat boxes.
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15. City needs to be focused on primary job attraction. If people have jobs, they'll
spend money.
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16. City's focus should be attracting primary employment
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17. Focus on local businesses that make Fort Collins unique
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18. Currently, municipalities in Colorado must depend upon sales tax to fund their
general fund. This revenue position puts Fort Collins in a lose-lose situation of
either chasing retail development or losing its revenue sources to neighboring
cities. I understand the need to sales tax revenue, but don't agree with current
status quo of cities that must depend upon retail sales tax or die.
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Do support parts of the plan - Foothills Mall, Midtown and Retention of what we
have.
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19. Retail impart for $ generation - but is not econ/environ sustainable
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20. Need to diversify funding streams so we don't rely so much on low wage jobs that
strain other systems.
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Response
Percent
Respons
Count
Redevelopment of Foothills Mall
74.1%
43
Implementation of Midtown
Redevelopment Strategies
75.9%
44
Ongoing analysis of regional
competitive position
37.9%
22
Other (please explain)
15.5%
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1. Foothills is a Windmill and Don Quixote keeps swinging at it.
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2. Ft Collins needs to get real about offering incentives like property and sales tax
sharing to attract Dillards to the mall and other retailers to town. We have had out
heads in the sand, while allowing our neighbors to pick the low hanging fruit to our
detriment.
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3. don't know. Leave this for people who understand this topic more.
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4. focus on helping the other retailers in midtown and the impact will be much more
immediate.
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5. Sales taxes on the internet (& catalogue sales).
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6. None of the above. Individual businesses, or groups of businesses (like the DBA) can Sat, Jul 3, 2010 12:35 AM
decide what development they want to do.
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7. FFMall should be looked at as golden opportunity for redevelopment into multi use.
High rise condo's, office spaces, restaurant and retail that would make it energetic
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and reduce car miles. Make it a terminal for mass transit connection to Mason street
and others?
8. Develop Strategy for South Town
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9. Should aggressively support Be Local efforts
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10. City should focus on primary jobs, not retail
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11. More support for the Core Downtown!
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12. Interstate Regional Retail Development
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13. Top Priority!
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14. Prioritize retail sales generating projects from a zoning and apporval process point of Thu, Jul 1, 2010 2:47 PM
view.
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15. This needs to include a consorted effort for the approach to midtown from I-25 to
draw out-of-town visitors (Cheyenne, Eaton, etc). I haven't heard any talk of this for
Prospect & Mulberry
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16. Do support parts noted above but need to focus on Primary Employment vs retail.
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17. Needs to focus on primary employers
Still needs to focus on Mall + Midtown redevelopment
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18. Concentrate on making area pedestrian friendly + accessible to all modes
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19. Yes
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20. Need new additional ways to raise revenue that don't depend on consumption
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21. Retail retention needs to focus on attracting primary jobs so families have disposable Thu, Jul 1, 2010 11:47 AM
income.
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22. Maintain existing properties - force owners to take better care of what is here.
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Work with local landowners on midtown redevelopment. Let the market dictate what it
wants - will be based on individual economic strength.
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Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
35.9%
23
Neutral
10.9%
7
Do not support
18.8%
12
Other (please explain)
1.6%
1
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1. This is NOT the CITY's role
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2. This approach should not be just for large employers but should also include land for Fri, Jul 9, 2010 2:07 PM
startups. In recent conversations with some of the new and really strong clean
energy companies they are looking for not just space but culture and the "cool" factor
such as downtown and like in Austin,TX. Land costs in downtown are now too
expensive for most startups and we are running out of land.
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3. don't know. Leave this for people who understand this topic more.
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4. Good points raised by participants.
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5. Too much risk in spending on land development without specific needs in mind. No
matter what we put in place, any employer will want to customize the property to its
particular needs, including location, size and access. I worry that we'll create white
elephants that will never be used.
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6. Do not rezone employment land for development of commercial or residential
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 10:27 AM
development. Changing this land intended use provides a quick and easy opportunity
for commercial, retail or residential at the expense of employment opportunities over
the long term.
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7. If these new businesses are manufacturers.
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8. Government should not be in the real-estate or land development businesses.
Private citizens or corporations do that much better.
Sat, Jul 3, 2010 12:35 AM
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9. It is all about "could" where are the details?
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10. The city should not put any effort into providing "land ready" for large employers. We Thu, Jul 1, 2010 9:36 PM
do not need any more "large employers". Our goal is to diversify our economy, not to
make it more dependent on a few large employers. Large employers are too much of
a boom and bust phenomenon.
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11. Have to have acreage to accommodate larger tech companies
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12. Too hard to predict/guess what this would mean for potential employers
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13. What we have learned about large employers in the last ten years is that they will
follow national and international business trends and not consider the negative
impacts upon the local community. Out-sourcing, plant closures and lay-offs are
driven by corporate policies and are not influenced by the local City Council or
Chamber of Commerce. Most job creation comes from small business. Chasing large
employers means that the city is trying to hit home runs instead of singles.
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6. Do you agree with the policy direction proposed in EH3-B: Incentives to
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Response
Percent
Respons
Count
Support
50.0%
32
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
18.8%
12
Neutral
4.7%
3
Do not support
25.0%
16
Other (please explain)
1.6%
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1. Incentives for targeted businesses make a lot of sense. A combination of incentives
including fee waivers, expedited review, and an ombudsman to help assist in moving
a project through the process could be very helpful. Ther also should be team
approach to attracting targeted industry. A collaboration between bankers, chamber,
city economic development liaison, the university, and appropriate business people
shold be available as a team to meet with appropriate businesses.
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2. Can we create a fast track zoning and building permit process within economic
development to break deadlocks between city departments if a project offers
significant economic benefits?
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3. don't know. Leave this for people who understand this topic more.
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4. I need to study this more.
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5. New development should pay for new infrastructure costs.
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6. For manufacturers.
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7. No. Not government's job
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8. Making land ready for businesses is for developers, not the city. In addition, as the
city reaches "build out" there will be no more "land ready", so we need to have an
economy that can sustain itself with our current land.
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9. ABSOLUTELY NOT! This is the purview of developers; not gov't.
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10. New development should pay for the costs of development.
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Response
Percent
Respons
Count
Support
34.9%
22
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
19.0%
12
Neutral
27.0%
17
Do not support
19.0%
12
Other (please explain)
0.0%
0
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1. Until the transit options are better and the density of the city supports a viable and
comprehensive transit system private vehicles are going to be the means of travel
most used by our citizens. If parking is not available and convenient downtown
business will suffer. I think the bicycle racks being placed in parking stalls was a big
mistake. Sure they only take up a half dozen or so spaces, but those spaces are
important at business times downtown. Those bicycle racks could have been located
in other places so as to not remove parking spaces.
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2. what about when the BRT gets going. Can people take the BRT and not drive?
Provide parking along the BRT and lesses the single occupancy vehicles into
downtown. Promote bikes on teh BRT for mobility while downtown.
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3. Liked idea on parking lot in River District & cuT ICLEI bike crap.
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4. Prefer parking be geared towards shoppers and out of towners. Provide incentives
and facilitate downtown employees to use alternative transportation
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5. Encourage alternative modes during peak parking times.
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6. There is the question - why do businesses downtown get free parking supplied by the Sat, Jul 3, 2010 12:35 AM
government while others not in downtown need to provide their own parking?
Government supplied parking is inherently unfair.
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7. Parking is always a contentious issue. Providing better mass transit to the Downtown Thu, Jul 1, 2010 10:43 PM
area could ameliorate the parking situation and leave more space for businesses.
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8. Support better paths for biking and busses
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9. A huge must!!
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10. Only if needed. It is vital to keep our downtown healthy. The only time the new
parking garage gets full is during large events like New West Fest. It is important to
not over build parking. Don't build parking for the peak days. On peak days like New
West Fest, encorage people seek alternative modes.
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Response
Percent
Respons
Count
Evaluate marketability of available
land
52.5%
32
Coordinate infrastructure/capital
projects that strategically support
economic health
78.7%
48
Analyze downtown
parking/prepare a strategy
39.3%
24
Avoid rezoning of employment
land
52.5%
32
Other (please explain)
8.2%
5
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1. Fort Collins is bigger than downtown. It is time to focus resources in other areas of
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the City. I am a strong supporter of downtown but they are doing really well and other
areas are not. Time to refocus to Midtown, West Elizabeth, Harmony Road and other
locations.
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2. The only reason to rezone employment land is to ecnourage successful retail
development due to it's ability to fund th city general fund.
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3. On-street pay pay parking like Boulder would be great.
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4. Another one I need to study more.
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5. FC should do what it can to retain and attract employers in high paying industries.
Creating a "net gain" in employement where the salary base of the employees has a
downward trend does nothing to maintain and improve the "tax base" of the city.
Alterantively FC should work to facilitate living in FC but working elswhere.
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6. Analyze all you want, as long as all reports are freely available.
Avoid rezoning, or maybe better, remove zoning restrictions to facilitate growth.
But overall, government should not be in the land business.
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7. The city should not be in the business of addressing employer land needs except for
possibly utilizing urban renewal of existing space that needs redevelopment.
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 9:36 PM
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8. Allow and promote redevelopment of areas into higher density uses in general. This
is the only way to get vibrancy and more long term tax revenue. Stop letting the
neighbors shut down high density projects like that which was proposed for the old
Toddys downtown.
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9. I am NOT supportive of TIF's that divert county property tax.
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11. Allow for intensification of level uses to allow primary employment & develop at
higher densities.
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12. Use tax incentives to stimulate redevelopment & selective projects that generate
jobs/sales tax. We need to compete with neighboring communities here.
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13. Incent reuse of existing buildings and space - instead of always building new.
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14. Parking seems out of place here - especially when primary jobs will locate elsewhere Thu, Jul 1, 2010 2:24 PM
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15. Re-use existing retail space that is sitting empty.
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16. Rezoning employment land provides a "quick fix" to meet a developer's needs today,
but sacrifices potential employment land for the future. It is too short-sighted.
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 12:20 PM
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17. Change real costs for development.
Raise the sales tax!
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18. Support infrastructure that incentivizes non-auto transport.
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10. Avoid rezoning of employment land -- Critical!!
Harmony Village is a great example of using our best land for yet another retail
center. Once its built, it is difficult to start over.
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Percent
Respons
Count
Support
60.9%
39
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
12.5%
8
Neutral
7.8%
5
Do not support
18.8%
12
Other (please explain)
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1. Support should be limited to providing "world class" basis services.
If support is towards local agricultural and marketing locally, I support.
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2. • City has a role in supporting entrepreneurship through programs like the
incubator, RMII.
• What happened to Shop Fort Collins First? The SFCF program makes sense for
the City to support because it is inclusive of all retail and services – not just local.
• City Government should be neutral – not support local businesses over others
because they are all providing jobs and paying taxes in the community. While local
business is great, the City has no business supporting them over others.
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3. The City should be neutral on this topic and not support local businesses over
others because they are all providing jobs and paying taxes in the community.
Sat, Jul 10, 2010 6:06 AM
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4. We must extend the welcome mat and keep cultivating long term realationships
with businesses in town. It's bizare that we would hesitate to offer incentives to HP
when they want to expand. After all the taxes they've paid and high paying jobs
they've brought to town, we should be rolling out the red carpet. We need an
attitude adjustment toward business.
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5. City Government should be neutral.
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6. I definitely support local businesses. Box stores are anywhere USA and most of the Thu, Jul 8, 2010 4:43 PM
money goes to China in these stores anyway. Local businesses, keep money
locally.
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7. Sales taxes on the internet.
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8. Small business creates most new jobs.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 10:27 AM
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9. Sounds like something ripe for abuse. Who decides what local businesses are
worthy of government support (ie: money).
Sat, Jul 3, 2010 12:35 AM
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10. If you are going to support businesses in one area of town, you'll have to figure out
how to support businesses in all areas of town.
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 10:43 PM
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11. All of our economic development efforts should be focused on supporting local
businesses and start-ups
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 9:36 PM
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12. City has role of supporting entrepreneurship - but should not be picking retail
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winners and losers. Rather see emphasis on Shop Fort Collins First versus specific
local retailers. Also - people shopping online aren't searching out "mom and pops" they are shopping at big locations we don't have here.
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13. Support entrepreneurship - city needs to be neutral to all businesses
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14. Most job creation comes from small business. Local business keeps profits in our
community.
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Support Be Local
72.2%
39
Support the development of a
Community Marketplace
74.1%
40
Other (please explain)
9.3%
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1. The private sector needs to participate as well, not just a City project
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2. No Community Marketplace. If a private firm can't afford to do it, the city can't
either.
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3. quit being a roadblock to the success of small business. The city and the small
businesses in this community have had an adversarial relationship for the last 20
years. Act like you care about their success or failure
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4. Support local business. Small business creates the most jobs.
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5. Sales taxes on the internet. Everything else possible.
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6. Establish a local anual "trade show" or "fair" that showcases local busineses. This
might be done by industry or some other designation. (i.e. financial, legal, builders,
retail, food, etc.) This would give people in the market for a particular service or
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who might be in the market soon a chance to meet, compare and get to know
different vendors.
7. I'm sorry I haven't been directly involved but surely there are more items on the
table than this!
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8. Create an ongoing dialogue with the business community that emphasizes
LISTENING to, rather than lecturing the business community.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 7:42 AM
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9. Support the SBDC and engage a regular outreach and dialogue process with local
business to identify and assess new opportunities for collaboration.
Mon, Jul 5, 2010 7:35 PM
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10. If someone like the DBA wants a downtown marketplace to promote downtown, the Sat, Jul 3, 2010 12:35 AM
city shouldn't get in their way, but shouldn't spend money to support them either.
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11. Support the development of Web based information about local businesses so that
people are made aware of options when they are near a local business.
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12. Small businesses create a better feeling of responsibility which means healthy
community. especially vs the big box mentality. Don't support big box......
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 6:34 PM
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13. I do not support a Community Marketplace - this has not been sustainable in other
places.
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 3:59 PM
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14. Focus economic incubation
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 3:57 PM
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16. Support the DBA!! The city has not helped the DBA enough over the last few years. Thu, Jul 1, 2010 3:18 PM
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17. Competitive regional shopping area's along the I-25 area.
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18. A community marketplace year-round is an excellent way to keep money here in
Fort Collins.
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19. We are a region. Our business should be responsible to bring customers by being
best in class. The city should not be supporting poorly ran or failing businesses just
because they are in city boundaries.
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20. Do Support! Should not pick winners & losers. Should be SFC First vs Be Local
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 2:24 PM
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21. Need to support all retailers like the Shop Fort Collins Program
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22. Look at other precedents Madison, French Markets
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23. Yes!!! Use the trolley barn for the first exp. with this
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24. City has a role in supporting entrepreneurship (RH12, etc) the SFCF program
makes sense for the city to support. City government should be neutral. Not
supporting local over others as all pay taxes and provide jobs
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25. I support local businesses, but the City doesn't need to spend money on this. Let
the provate sector handle this effort.
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Work w/ CSU's Technology transfer program and local College (FRCC) to ensure
coordinated effort/combine w/ incubators
15. City should not be in the business of supporting some businesses over others.
This is a membership organization. The city buys memberships in business
groups? Is it a member of the downtown merchants? The tourism bureau? The
chamber of commerce? All or none.
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Respons
Count
Support
29.7%
19
Leaning toward supporting (but
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17.2%
11
Neutral
9.4%
6
Do not support
43.8%
28
Other (please explain)
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1. other groups do this and it is not a CITY role
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2. If the support is for innovation with regards to waste reduction and energy and
resource conservation, I would be in favor,
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3. This is not a city responsibility.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 11:39 AM
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4. • NOT the City’s Job – that’s what Workforce Center does. Especially important to
not duplicate efforts when faced with limited resources.
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5. This is the job of the other government entity in town....the Larimer County
Workforce Center.
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6. This not the City's role. There are agencies in place to do this, let them work on this Sat, Jul 10, 2010 6:06 AM
issue and have the City concentrate on other areas of concern.
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7. Support or enhance existing programs. Do not create competing programs and
dilute valuable resources.
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8. We don't need to duplicate county, state and federal services. The city focus needs Fri, Jul 9, 2010 1:39 PM
to be attracting new businesses not providing services for unemployed individuals.
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9. Not the City's job. The Workforce Center attempts to address the issue.
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10. They city should place value and recognize that more people employed at a lower
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salary is better than less people employed at a higher salary. spread it out so we all
can pull our fair share and enjoy a stable life.
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11. Coordinate retraining of potential new hires with local employers. If a local company Tue, Jul 6, 2010 4:36 PM
interviews a local candiate but the candiate is missing some skill the city could pick
up the tab on some class. (up to some max $$) that would make the candidate
acceptable. (Training would start AFTER employee is hired.)
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12. The County provides this. I don't think additional City resources are required. The
County can access cluster information without City support.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 2:22 PM
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13. City has "budget issues" there are existing agencies that handle the workforce
training issue. Not a proper target for city resources.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 9:14 AM
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14. In the absence of acute unemployment, the City should merely support the activites Tue, Jul 6, 2010 7:42 AM
and programs of the State, County and private sector. Attempting to mitigate risks
within a market-based economy will decimate incentives for building capacity and
promoting the innovation for which all the social and environmental objectives are
reliant.
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15. No, we have CSU, IBMC, University of Phoenix and lots of other places for
workforce/employment training. Why should government only support "targeted
industries" or "successful cluster industries" (whatever that means).
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16. I think the WorkForce center already does a great job. If the city were to offer help,
it should be to coordinate programs between the Workforce Center, United Way,
and Chamber of Commerce.
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17. Not a city function.
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18. NOT the City's Job.
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Partner with Larimer County
Workforce Center
91.4%
32
Other (please explain)
31.4%
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1. Partner with PSD and FRCC as well as AIMS.
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2. This needs massive reform (change including law enforcement from local down to
federal.
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3. Establish a Hire Fort Collins first program with local companies. Companies that
register jobs with the local job bank "first" and hire locally would be entitled to some
kind of benefit. Companies would agree to advertise the job only locally for the first
30 days.
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4. Networking
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5. Closer participation with the Small Business Development Center, PSD, Front Range Tue, Jul 6, 2010 7:42 AM
CC, PSD and private institutions to discover where efficiencies can be reached in
identifying and responding to needs of business and its workforce.
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6. The city has little if any role in addressing a natural economic consequence in the
abscence of acute conditions.
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7. Don't tax them as much.
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8. Do not duplicate efforts of County.
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9. Work with local colleges to create workforce program in cooperation with Homeward
2020 and other similar programs such as Education and Life Planning
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10. City gov't must focus; do not recreate LC Workforce Center; Quality of life is best
lever for attracting top employers
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11. Not city's job
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12. Also continue to interview existing businesses to find out if they are able to hire what
they need here in Fort Collins. Do we have gaps in training?
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13. Partner with regional tech schools, colleges etc.
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14. Not the city's job. Belongs to Workforce Center. Don't duplicate efforts.
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15. This is not a role for city government. It's the role of the county, business and
schools.
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16. Do not duplicate already existing services in this regard
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17. We've got an outstanding resource in the Larimer County Workforce Center + the city Thu, Jul 1, 2010 2:33 PM
won't be adding new value by trying to supplement this - spend efffort elsewhere!
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18. Not city govt job
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19. Look for partnership and voc ed training with FRCC
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20. More creative look at job needs in the future.
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21. Work with PSD to more closely align curriculum w/ employment needs - help
students see value
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22. Not the city's job
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23. Workforce center already doing this
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1. Create a "workshop" to repair appliances and tools to create a solution to common
failures thereby preventing the same from being throw away, and possibly
manufacturing solutions which could be exported.
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2. Need to add a focus on Primary Employers as a key economic driver
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3. Think in a regional context. Having lunch once in a while with the mayors/city
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 6:43 AM
managers from Greeley/Loveland or appearing on the front of Style magazine does
not make for regional cooperation.
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4. Concentrate on attracting primary employers as an economic stimulus to the
community. If successful there good things will follow.
Sat, Jul 10, 2010 6:06 AM
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5. Ft. Collins exists in a competitive environment and can no longer live off it's
reputation. All the accolades are based on where we've been. Where are we
going?
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6. need to go after primary employers!
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7. Suuport should be directed to local business. Small business creates more jobs
and should be focused on by the city.
Large employers will not yield significant gains for Ft. Collins. Corporate policies of
out sourcing, down sizing and layoffs are make by corporate management with little
regard to impact on the city. Recruiting a large employer today is like trying to hit a
home run instead of hitting a lot of singles.
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8. Thanks Josh, Christine and participants. Also, city of Fort Collins for this effort.
Thanks Josh for renewing my faith in behavior modification re: "pro-active" (Like
pizza pie and chai tea!)
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9. There must be a clear statement demonstrating a commitment to economic
vibrancy, for which social and environmental objectives are dependent. Achieving
all three 'bottom line' objectives is admirable, though history and rational discourse
demonstrates the second and third cannot be achieved in the absence of economic
sustainability with a heavy recognition of fiscal limitaitons.
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10. Support for NCEDC.
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Process for engaging local business community to identify opportunities and
threats.
Outsourcing services.
Capital attraction.
11. Be clear in the long range plan about the needs for revenue to support these plans
and when citizens may be expected to be asked to pay more and approximately
how much given alternative economic conditions.
12. I think the city needs to demonstrate to the citizens what fiscal responsibility entails. Thu, Jul 1, 2010 10:43 PM
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is the dedicated revenue stream for this purpose or here is the fund (trust or other
type of thing) that will pay for it or some other mechanism that can be used to as a
teaching tool for citizens on how to improve their own financial health.
13. The city needs to have a better understanding of the costs and revenues
associated with new growth and development. New growth often costs taxpayers
more then the revenue provided. We should not be pursuing growth for growths
sake. As it stands now, new residential development is clearly driving the need for
more services which cost more then the revenue being provided. Growth is not a
panacea!!
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14. Would like stronger staements/goals around attracting Primary Employers and the
industry clusters.
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15. There is enough availability of retail. It is not a good, reliable source of tax revenue
and results in poor land use choices.
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16. Don't pick clusters; too limiting.
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19. Promote Public-Private sector land use ready process.
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20. The mall does not necessarily need to continue to be a mall. How about a
performing arts center with small boutique shops, lofts, condos, restuarants, bars
etc?
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21. Employment, especially local should be primary.
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22. Jobs, jobs, jobs! We need to put people to work so they can purchase goods that
generate sales tax. Need to revitalize retail concepts and vacancies in midtown.
Promote Ft. Collins as a good place to do business and make it easy for
employers, retailers and other job/tax generators to locate in Ft. Collins. Loveland,
Greeley, Timnath and Johnstown area eating our lunch in terms of attracting new
retail and employers. Use tax incentives more to level the playing field.
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23. Primary jobs are important to health of community. Retail is important because it is
source of revenue, but should not outweigh efforts to bring jobs.
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24. We don't need any more retail development in this town. Businesses are dropping
like flies everywhere you look. People who live in FTC need to shop in FTC.
Encourage everyone to stop purchasing things on the internet. We need to
increase our sales tax by 1 percent if the budget requires it. No more increases in
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Consider telecommuting and how to get an assessment.
17. Focus on attracting and retaining primary jobs
add "primary jobs" to the definitions section
need to add stronger language here about importance of primary jobs
18. The health of Downtown is always going to be the face of our community. Our
downtown needs continued support by more expansion and infill.
Why are we the only community in Colorado that does not embrace the River and
incorporate that with our downtown?
The River needs to be connected to the heart.
We cannot dictate to general growth what they do with their property. Focus on
what you CAN control first like the Mason Corridor or Midtown Redevelopment.
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property taxes.
If the DBA is still being allowed to retain a portion of their sales taxes, this should
be stopped. Allow the N. College or S. College businesses be allowed to do it for a
few years so they can "Pimp-Out" their end of town. OLD TOWN doesn't need to
refurb their alleyways!
25. Larger emphasis on entreprenuers
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26. We have plenty of retail development that is sitting empty. It is already development Thu, Jul 1, 2010 1:46 PM
ready - it needs to be reused. I do NOT support the city destroying green space to
make it "development ready." The existing retail has all the infrastructure in place utilities, streets, parking etc. Let's use the infrastructure we have and redeveolp it.
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27. Where is LU International Strategy in this? There must be a more concrete, visible
+ viable strategy for engaging globally.
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Primary jobs and attracting them is largely missing
Wish more focus on clusters
What happened to idea of a advocate to guide desired development through
process
If you're doing it, it is not very visible.
28. While these are decent strategies, I would love to see a focus away from
consumption of both stuff and energy resources.
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Work closely with LCWC to help w/ re-training. We have a major knoweldge/ed gab
that leaves many citizens very vulnerable
29. No strong statement re: importance of primary employers as a key economic driver
- this should be added!
A plug for resourcing our future in the middle of the document - really?!
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Response
Count
Support
54.8%
23
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
9.5%
4
Neutral
23.8%
10
Do not support
11.9%
5
Other (please explain)
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We need to increase our efficiency as a community.
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Up - Front costs are not addressed.
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3.
The issue I have with this is if the City is successful in reducing energy use the
rates to the customer will have to go up to support the infrastructure and O&M of
that fixed asset. It seems to be a double edged sword that requires the rate payers
to compensate for lost revenues due to reduced demand.
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Encourage local implementation of photovoltaves at all levels, residential and
commercial. More alternative, sustainable resources.
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5.
We must become a more efficient city and reduce of power consumption.
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6.
High priority. We need to get our energy green house gas use under control and
pulled back quickly. This is the most important. If we don't have a livable planet in
100 years or whatever it may take all the other items we spent money on such as
roads, art, economic health, affordable housing is all a mute point.
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7.
Thu, Jul 8, 2010 12:00 PM
I employed passive solar design, daylighting and a solar water heating system
when I built my home a year ago. My experience is that those features could/should
be included in any new construction. With a little knowledge and planning they can
easily be incorporated at little cost and with a short term pay back. It is absolutely
foolish that we continue to construct buildings dependent on petrochemical "life
support" when there is simple well proven technology available to harness
abundant free light and heat from the sun.
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Way too much emphasis is being placed on government financial support of energy Tue, Jul 6, 2010 3:04 PM
resources. This should be more directed towards facilitation rather than providing
these service. For example, facilitating a means for one to install PV on their roof
rather than directly financing it is the direction we should be taking. More guidance
and less direct involvement.
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Could be more aggressive with incentives and consequences
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 12:59 PM
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10. Using less energy will make Fort Collins more efficient.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 12:13 PM
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11. Conserving resources is highly beneficial to the community though cannot be
achieved unless and until technologies are proven to deliver suspected benefits at
a cost that is competitive with existing networks. Commiting significant public
resources to early innovation and wide scale adoption is completely inappropriate.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 8:11 AM
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12. Yes & no. voluntary recognizing demand, not command economy and no nanny
state junk science.
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13. Support local efficency investment.
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14. If done with eye toward cost containment and doing it opportunistically.
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15. Economical benefit of area is lost when rates increase. Need to know up front costs Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:21 PM
to all parties. Do a pilot district to see if it can be successful.
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16. Do Fort ZED pilot successfully then consider expanding.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:11 PM
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17. We cannot tout a "clean energy cluster" economically and not be a model city &
walk the talk.
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18. Push efficiency in the existing building stock and in transportation
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29
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17.1%
7
Neutral
7.3%
3
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Conservation first.
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Let's use informatoin technology to make our grid and meters smarter.
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3.
Yes, keep with or ahead of the curve. Continue modernization to keep up with the
best technology.
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4.
We should use more information technology to help us manage our electric loads.
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5.
same message as above. High High priority if we want sustainability of the planet.
Thu, Jul 8, 2010 4:23 PM
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6.
This should be driven by the industry and technology. Government can support it
by creating a conducive environment to allow it to happen privately.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 3:04 PM
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7.
We need smart meters now.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 12:13 PM
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8.
If it can be done with no big brother ICLEI, socialist control.
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9.
The expense likely exceeds the value to be gained.
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10. How about internet wireless service city-wide.
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11. Need to keep up with current technology.
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12. We need smart electric meters now.
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We should improve our existing building stock to create skills learning and jobs in
retrofitting buldings. The energy savings will be realized throughout the life of the
buildings.
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Support Icncetivized improvements, not mandated.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 10:59 AM
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Potentially very expensive to owners and consumers.
Don't supprt REQUIRING existing buildings owners to retrofit
3.
I support providing incentive dollars to help businesses achieve improved energy
performance. Mandates in this economy will not help business.
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4.
Do not support a requirement of this. If it is done though incentives and
encouragement to make improvements, I could support that.
Sat, Jul 10, 2010 6:32 AM
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5.
Conservation must continue to be the highest priority. Keep building codes as up to Fri, Jul 9, 2010 2:01 PM
date as possible so that the newest ideas can be implemented.
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6.
We should upgrade our building stock to provide jobs and skills training today and
realize energy and cost savings for the life of the building.
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7.
Support system of incentives
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8.
gets us at the same point.
Thu, Jul 8, 2010 4:23 PM
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9.
very expensive and will run employers out of town
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10. This should be a partnership between utilities and the building department.
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11. Retrofit existing buildings will provide jobs and opportunities for skills development
and education today and will benefit in energy savings for the life of the building.
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12. would not support any mandate requiring existing buildings to retrofit. Would be
very tough on existing owners and potentially reduce property values.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 9:19 AM
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13. Energy efficient buildings are admirable, yet unattainable to many small
businesses. The presumption is that buildings that may cost less in the long-term
are better, when in fact current financial constraints discourage widespread
implementation of the ideal. In other words, the calculus fails to consider the
significant public subsidy necessary to create efficiency within the built
environment, reasonable return of investment to the owner of the building and
'market premium' associated with efficient facilities.
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14. On a priority basis with government using decreasing tax resources, not for the
disincentisizing private residences & businesses by additional taxes to be wasted
on "progressive" hysteria & junk science antithetical to freedom.
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15. Support voluntary incentive based programs, but not mandatory regulations.
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16. The environment/economy would make this difficult to absorb at this time. Good
idea but not now.
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17. This should be optional - not a mandate. Look at costs and relative benefits.
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18. Support incentives; NO mandates.
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19. Very expensive for owners and consumers.
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Only support if it is voluntary
20. Increasing energy efficiency of existing building now provides needed jobs and
training today and allows us to save energy costs for the remaining life of the
buildng.
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37.5%
15
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
17.5%
7
Neutral
7.5%
3
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37.5%
15
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not sure if this is the City's role, but they could set an example with ideas for their
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2.
Not sure how the city can do this?
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3.
Goverment should not be involved in this process
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4.
This is difficult but we must move forward to a new paradyme. Some of these
changes, such as insurance issues, my require state government actions.
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 2:01 PM
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5.
Energy prices is the best signals to drive consumer behavior.
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6.
I really like this idea. It incentives by hitting the pocket book for people to make
changes about their habits.
Thu, Jul 8, 2010 4:23 PM
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7.
Price is the best signal to consumpers to motivate conservations efforts.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 12:13 PM
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8.
Drop the vernacular, price mechanisms are nothing more than centralizing the
economy through market distortion and ultimately a directed economy that shatters
all other visions.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 8:11 AM
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9.
Another step to late 19th & early 20th century command economy a.k.a. socialism
a failed system without exception!!
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 1:08 PM
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10. Too many social value decisions required-conflicts with individual rights and
freedoms.
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11. Government should not manipulate the market.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:21 PM
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12. City government should not manipulate the market - very intrusive.
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13. Big Brother? Government should not manipulate the market.
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14. Energy pricing is the best way to send the signal to the consumer that energy is an
expense and it should be conserved.
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52.4%
22
Leaning toward supporting (but
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4.8%
2
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33.3%
14
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I support efficiencies for clean air. This would be encouraging bicycling, walking
and an efficient mass transit system. Given projected population increases, the cost
and resources needed for roads, mass transit is the sustainable way to go and is
socially neutral.
2.
As we experience ozone non-attainment we need to address our air quality.
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3.
Not a city role. Private enterprise should handle this.
4.
Promote and incentivise alternative vehicles and fuels. I believe if the options are
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 2:01 PM
made available by manufacturers and suppliers the public will embrace the change.
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5.
We are already in Ozone non-compliance. We must expand our fuels choices.
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 1:53 PM
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6.
we could be on the cutting edge and be known as one of the pioneers for this.
Provide public parking spaces for alternative fuel vehicles, provide more onstreet
bicycle parking racks where needed.
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Promote yes, invest in, no.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 3:04 PM
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8.
Let the market decide these things.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 9:19 AM
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9.
Nope. Private sector. Nuclear plant & algae growing farm @ Rawhide & HYDRO.
Dramatically, not in a draionian fashion, reduce government control, intrusion a
size!!!
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10. This is not an area for city government. Let the EPA & Feds take care of it.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:36 PM
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11. This should be done by private industry & entrepreneurs.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:28 PM
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12. Not government's role.
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13. Not city government's job.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:11 PM
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14. Find a way to get inexpensive neighborhood elec vehicles on the road. I really only
need an electric go cart to get around town. There is no such thing on the market
really. And no real road way for it either since we allow excessive speeding and
other poor behavior from huge heavy vehicles that periodically kill bicyclists and
pedestrians and would probably kill go cartists.
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15. Not City's role.
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16. Efforts should be made to reduce the impact of transportation exhaust on our air
quality.
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52.5%
21
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
7.5%
3
Neutral
2.5%
1
Do not support
37.5%
15
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This might be better handled within other individual goals such as supporting local
businesses.
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2.
yea, yes, yes.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 4:24 PM
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3.
By reducing our carbon consumption we will become more efficient as a
community.
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4.
What kind of costs are we talking about here?
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 10:59 AM
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5.
Sounds good, but don't understand the cost impacts and we shouldn't be
concentrating efforts on growing food locally.
Sat, Jul 10, 2010 6:32 AM
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6.
This is a critical requirement.
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7.
Thu, Jul 8, 2010 4:23 PM
We have several Community Supported Agriculture farms in the local area. Yes,
let's move our food less miles. Not sure how government can help. Good thing to
explore if and how other communities are tackling this. Our farmer's markets, really
aren't as fabulous as other communities. Don't put it in a parking lot, put it in a
street where you can't miss it. Provide live music and street performers and make it
a lively festival each Saturday.
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8.
This is becoming a fad instead of a trend.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 3:04 PM
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9.
Controlling the most abundant substance on the planet seems a plausible objective Tue, Jul 6, 2010 8:11 AM
at best.
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10. NO!! See Env. 5A
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11. See note on back page on a natural gas carbon tax.
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12. Science still immature & requires a multi-jurisdictional organization like a regional
planning organization to accomplish.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:36 PM
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13. What is the cost?
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:21 PM
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14. Not enough detail; no acknowledgement of costs and who pays.
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15. Not enough detail. No acknowledgement of the costs. And what is local food
production doing here?
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 4:21 PM
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16. Reducing carbon intensity consumption usually involves becoming more energy
efficient. The futre belongs to the efficient. As the community spends less on
energy, more money stays in the community.
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Response
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82.5%
33
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
7.5%
3
Neutral
2.5%
1
Do not support
7.5%
3
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Expand community recycling and mandate all City programs, buildings, and events
include recycling.
Composting as well.
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2.
We need to implement a yard waste and composting program similar to that in
Loveland.
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3.
as long as they are voluntary and consider economic impact
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 10:59 AM
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4.
Needs to be a voluntary program. How do we convert waste to energy?
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5.
We need a composting/yard waste collection area like Loveland.
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6.
mandatory trash pick up. Recycling could be mandatory. If you don't sort properly
your trash gets left behind. Provide green waste pick up more easily. Provide
handouts door to door for composting and other options such as digging a hole
etc...
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7.
Recycling is here to stay, and makes great economic sense.
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Need a community composting center like Loveland's.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 12:13 PM
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9.
Mine the landfill, use 21st century technology for recycling-e.g. systems in CA for
reduction of household solid waste to 5% which can be burned for fuel (see
Gallegos Sanitation.) Private, public & academic partnerships, not extremist,
impractical & socialist ICLEI "progressivism."
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 1:08 PM
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10. Voluntary programs that incentivize waste diversion are good, but regulations that
increase costs to businesses & residents are not.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:36 PM
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11. As long as it's voluntary & affordability for everyone.
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12. Voluntary; NO mandates. Where is info on waste-to-energy?
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13. Convert the landfill into a way station for distribution of waste to all the various
potential reuse, recycle oppertunities. Composting, metals recycle, plastic, glass,
etc. Landfill should be last possible resort.
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14. As long as efforts are voluntary and consider economic impact.
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Would like to see waste to energy here.
15. We need a yard waste facility like the one in Loveland.
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Percent
Response
Count
Support
48.8%
21
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
16.3%
7
Neutral
14.0%
6
Do not support
18.6%
8
Other (please explain)
2.3%
1
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2.
What are the costs and who pays for it?
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 10:59 AM
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3.
Sounds expensive?
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 6:50 AM
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4.
Could work if the implementation were to use funds that would otherwise go to fix
failing underground infrastructure.
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5.
Good idea. Use the streets and medians where you can. Surface channels and
control are good ideas. Keep all options open and apply as appropriate.
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6.
This could save money via not having to bury pipes.
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7.
Cost issue
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8.
love the idea. Now this is a complete street. Allow developments to infiltrate storm
water in parkways.
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9.
concerned about costs - would this mean more taxes?
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 9:19 AM
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10. I would like to see a review of frequently flooded areas (ie W. Oak & Grant) for
short term mitigation. Some situations are extreme and require an exception to the
"downstream issues must all be addressed first" approach we now use.
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11. Concerned with long term maintenance & viability.
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12. I need to study more. My uncle once removed Ed Hilgenberg was involved from the Fri, Jul 2, 2010 1:08 PM
50's to the 80's when he retired.
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13. Nice visuals for stormwater conveyance.
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14. Use stormwater detention areas for multiple purposes - ie open space, habitat.
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15. The cost/benefit should be considered vs. acquiring larger land parcels
downstream.
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16. Cost/benefit analysis needed plus careful evaluation of future maintenance costs.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:36 PM
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17. would support if no new & are used but this is implemented when new pipes need
to be installed & this was done instead. Just a where does $ com from issue.
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18. Who pays for this? The (?) could inhibit Ec. Dev! What is maintenance costs?
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19. Wide implementation in FC. Bioswales. Support policies for homeowners & new
developments to install green driveways, etc.
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20. Who pays for it? And what cost is there for maintaining these green spaces when it
doesn't flood? We already require green medians - how is this different?
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21. Continue to implement the storm water plan that was created after the 1997 flood.
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44.2%
19
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
11.6%
5
Neutral
16.3%
7
Do not support
27.9%
12
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I believe the City's policies and guidelines now do a good job of protecting property.
2.
We should do more to address better fun-off water quality that goes into the river and Fri, Jul 9, 2010 1:53 PM
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3.
maybe not more land for storm water but smarter use of land for storm water. brick
streets, landscaping areas used to infiltrate.
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4.
Building density could be mitigated by encouraging living or green roof design with
rooftop plantings. The change would also help with reducing energy usage.
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5.
Vertical tube realtor (Jay McGrow)
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6.
Conflicts with economic and employment sustainability, due to increased costs on
businesses & employers.
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7.
Appears to be a no-growth & shifting costs to development which discourages
growth.
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8.
Incurred cost for development.
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9.
Increases cost of development & decreases value of some lands.
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10. Bioswales. Yes - I love the idea of accomplishing multiple objectives. Encourage
edibles: fruit trees in addition to xeric in high water retention ponds.
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11. Land taking by downsizing undeveloped properties.
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Support
61.0%
25
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
26.8%
11
Neutral
9.8%
4
Do not support
2.4%
1
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More storm water filtration would improve the river water.
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Need more details in order to make an informed decision.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 6:50 AM
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3.
Good idea. Obviously needs coordination and possibly more work in the planning
department to implement. Consider "transfer development" options for properties
that would be designated for the community detention facilities.
Sat, Jul 10, 2010 6:32 AM
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4.
Educate the community to enhance local infiltration. Partner with builders to use new Fri, Jul 9, 2010 2:01 PM
ideas on broad developments.
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5.
Ok to support partnerships.
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 1:53 PM
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6.
Need to see the details
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Sounds Great!
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Need to study more. In addition to much better partnering between private, academic Fri, Jul 2, 2010 1:08 PM
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national extortion funding and have all except required constitutional-eg. national
defense - be county & local grants!!
9.
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10. Voluntary programs with incentives are a good idea, but not mandated requirements
by zoning & planning.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:36 PM
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11. Great idea to collaborate with neighboring properties & providing regional parks &
recreation areas.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:28 PM
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12. Depends upon details.
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13. Details matter.
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14. Bioswales. Absolutely. Again, encourage edibles (fruit trees, wild asparagus) in
areas receiving more water (runoff)
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Only support if this is a true partnership & not a "taking" of private land.
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Support
56.8%
25
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
25.0%
11
Neutral
11.4%
5
Do not support
6.8%
3
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1.
I'm very supportive of conservation, conflicted about additional storage, and
supportive to SAVE The Poudre.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 4:24 PM
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• Encourage Conservation while expanding storage. Expansion of Halligan is vital.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 10:59 AM
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3.
Expansion of Halligan is key.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 6:50 AM
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4.
will submit via email
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 11:43 AM
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5.
We don't have a good basis for an opinion. Hopefully we'll revisit after the updated
"Water Demand and Supply Policy Plan" is available for comment.
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 7:19 AM
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6.
Encourage conservation AND expand storage capacity.
Sat, Jul 10, 2010 6:32 AM
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7.
Emphasize water conservation over water supply development. We must live within Fri, Jul 9, 2010 3:19 PM
our current water supply as population increases by increasing conservation.
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8.
Conservation and wise use need to be a priority. Education and enforcement of
individual uses needs to be stronger (particularly lawn watering).
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 2:01 PM
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We should emphasize water conservation. We should live within...
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10. not enough information
Thu, Jul 8, 2010 4:23 PM
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11. The conservation end of this needs to be enhanced--clearly this is a balance
between supply and demand, and while the city has made great strides in the
conservation side, a great deal more work remains. We live in an arid climate, and
greenery is a luxury that should be treated as such. Incentives and requirements
should be deployed to ensure that our water supply "needs" do not outstrip the
available resources, within the context of global climate change.
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12. The document appears to promote conservation over supply management. Untill
the City places an outright ban on turf - particularly within parks and surrounding
facilities - lowering consumption can not happen to any significant level.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 8:11 AM
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13. I oppose glade and feel lower flows are bad for the river generally and specically
bad for the river within city limits. Reduced flows will hinder and make impossible
riverfront development in the old town area and reduce recreational value of the
river throughout its city path.
Mon, Jul 5, 2010 1:44 PM
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14. To get balance, dramatic increase in storage-new & expanded reservoirs, effective
stewardship & management & recharging the aquifiers. Incentives to individuals
government mandate on conservation.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 1:08 PM
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15. There have been plenty of studies on water needs in N. Colorado. We need to be
realistic about future water demand.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:36 PM
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16. We need to look at water storage for future drought conditions and growth.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:28 PM
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17. Encourage conservation & expand (?). We're losing too uch water now due to lack
of storage especially in wet winters.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:21 PM
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18. This is extremely important. Great to advocate for conservation but MUST expand
storage.
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19. Too soon to tell. The environment needs rights as well as people, farms, mining,
etc.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:02 PM
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20. Let's step back from the issue: If we stopped trying to attract more and more people Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:55 AM
we wouldn't need to keep building dams.
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Thu, Jul 1, 2010 6:53 PM
21. Help businesses find ways to reduce and reuse water. Convert areas to Xeric and
away from water intensive use on both public and private property. Start charging a
water tax on greens fee's at golf courses since they are WATER HOGS. Stop
selling "spare" (saved water) water to farmers and let it go down the stream to
make the stream more healthy.
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22. We should encourage conservation - but NEED storage!
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 4:21 PM
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23. Emphasis should be on water supply conservation. Our community must learn to
live within the constraints of our current water supply system.
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53.2%
25
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
36.2%
17
Neutral
4.3%
2
Do not support
6.4%
3
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• Better access to the river in downtown for more urban uses
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Looking forward to the effort of the Link n' Greens purchase and the Poudre River.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 6:50 AM
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3.
will submit via email
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 11:43 AM
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Would like to see better access to the river from downtown, especially in the area
between College and Lincoln.
Sat, Jul 10, 2010 6:32 AM
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sounds good.
6.
Again, NISP is not the only threat to a healthy and resilient Poudre. Our community Tue, Jul 6, 2010 12:59 PM
needs are just one component, and we must show leadership in doing more with
less, although our water rights and water supply situation is enviable, relative to
other Front Range communities.
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Why aren't humans considered an element of the river environment? The corridor is Tue, Jul 6, 2010 8:11 AM
heavily populated by urbanized wildlife and adaptive flora. Introducing the human
species to this long-neglected amenity is both beneficial and highly sought by the
community.
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Build glade, see ENV 11, but...11-A - stewardship & management, not cockamamie Fri, Jul 2, 2010 1:08 PM
extreme enviro junk science and European elitism.
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9.
No Glade reservoir
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10. The Cache la Poudre River is an important asset to Fort Collins. It is important to
keep our current minimum flows in the river and keep the river riparian areas
natural to allow them to provide the natural services that they provide to us.
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Coordinate with other cities
74.5%
35
Protect and restore river banks
83.0%
39
Manage water flow (peak flows
and winter flows)
51.1%
24
Educate about water conservation
(e.g., landscaping irrigation and
household use and efficient
municipal uses)
68.1%
32
Trade urban/agricultural water use
29.8%
14
None of the above
2.1%
1
Other (please explain)
4.3%
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1.
Not sure some of the above about manage flows and ag water are possible given
current water law.
Tue, Jul 13, 2010 3:38 PM
2.
Explore Save the Poudre storage plans.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 4:24 PM
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3.
We need to preserve and protect the Poudre River.
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4.
will submit via email
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5.
An informed opinion would benefit hugely from the experience of others and the
City would do well to provide some examples (or at least links) (with comment
where possible.) As a starter, consider Easthampton, Mass, , Grafton and
Cedarburg, Wi, Steamboat Springs and Boulder, CO. For pics, go to
gdjp.smugmug.com
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Keep development away from the river. Keep the river as natural as possible. Allow Fri, Jul 9, 2010 3:19 PM
public access via natural surface trails/paths.
Option 1: Reduce rise from 1/2 foot rise to 0.1 foot rise.
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Coordinate with Salida and Golden - they have done a good job with their
downtowns/access to Arkansas River/Clear Creek.
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I want to see access to our river improvement.
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Not sure of 'Manage water flow (peak flows and winter flows)'. Not sure of this affect on fish?
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10. We need to keep the Poudre River as natural as possible. We need to protect in
stream flows. We need to protect wildlife corridors.
Thu, Jul 8, 2010 4:23 PM
11. Don't manage peak flows. This is part of the natural cycle of a river. Maybe I don't
understand what this would mean. So I guess it depends on what would have to be
balanced to achieve this.
Wildlife corridor and people enjoyment are in the downtown. Kayak park in a certain
area more natural in others and outdoor railings and cafe seating in other areas.
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12. Many Fort Collins residents seem to be turf farmers. All summer long I have to
dodge sprinklers when walking or riding my bike. Please continue to encourage
water conservation and sustainable landscaping.
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13. A multi-tiered approach is critical to revitalizing and restoring the Poudre.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 12:59 PM
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14. Allow adaptive reuse along the downtown corridor to celebrate the importance of
this resource by encouraging interactions as opposed to the long-standing policy of
discouragment. The environmental commun ity has held this amenity hostage long
enough!
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15. Absolutely not. 10 million acre feet of H2O co is legally entitled to only 1 million
currently used. NO MORE extreme reactionary paranoid junk science
environmental whackus. Drown the Preble's meadow jumping mouse and the
endangered weed @ proposed Glade Reservoir site. Quit longing for dead
dinosaurs and species that haven't cut it as in survival of the strongest, meet
human needs & export freedom & prosperity.
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16. Continue to provide necessary storage to support increased population.
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17. Define River Banks better. These policies are supportable in concept but the
balance of the triple bottom line needs to be considered.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:40 PM
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18. We should integrate the river into old town. It is a barrier now and serves no useful
purpose to the community except as an arbitrary boundary to a vibrant old town.
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19. We need to keep the river viable but also improve its access & value to the city.
This is a tremendous asset that is underutilized today.
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20. We should clean up & develop the River thru the Downtown.
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21. This is an urban river where it flows thru the Greater Downtown area; let people
have better access.
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22. Manage water flow (peak flows & winter flows) for the sake of the ecosystem, yes.
Trade urban/agricultural water use - only if you will support affordable water for
urban agriculture. Prioritize trades with ranchers and veg. growers.
Bigger ideas needed.
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23. Stop selling "spare" (saved water) water to farmers and let it go down the stream to Thu, Jul 1, 2010 6:53 PM
make the stream more healthy.
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24. The Cache la Poudre River is an important asset to Fort Collins. It is important to
keep our current minimum flows in the river and keep the river riparian areas
natural to allow them to provide the natural services that they provide to us.
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Leaning toward supporting (but
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The City needs to be more serious and pro-active regarding Climate Change.
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• Good to see acknowledgement of need to adapt versus whom to blame it on.
• Need to secure future water supply
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3.
This is critical for our future.
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4.
Thu, Jul 8, 2010 4:23 PM
absolutely. I like how the City is using smaller vehicles for parks work downtown
and golf carts etc... Look into car pool where departments don't all need a separate
car, the city can have prius's take the long drive to soapstone while the shorter trips
can be made with other vehicles.
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One small city without coordinated action with the country is useless and wasteful.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 3:04 PM
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Absolutely not. this gives junk science, socialism and political expedient treason a
bad name.
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Science is still under too much scrutiny to be relied on.
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We need to secure future water storage & supply.
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9.
Finally! This is great to see. Instead of trying to fight global warming let's focus on
local strategies to cope.
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10. Support climate change legislation and carbon tax legislation.
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20
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
23.8%
10
Neutral
23.8%
10
Do not support
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Only non-motorized activities in our Natural Areas. Reduce the maintenance and
irrigation costs in our parks.
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We have enough open space now. I'm okay with filling in the unconnected trails,
but other than that we don't need more open space.
Sat, Jul 10, 2010 6:32 AM
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3.
Let's use our irrigation ditches to provide trails through neighborhoods.
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Preserving land when opportunity arises for any future use is prudent.
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Natural Areas should only allow non-motorized, human-powered activities. No dogs Tue, Jul 6, 2010 12:13 PM
in Natural Areas.
6.
I do not support any further large land purchases outside the city boundaries.
7.
Need more study.
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These are all extremely complex issues and do not lend themselves to simplistic
comment. The comments given should be taken in that context.
Dog parks should be a part of open lands policies.
Open lands "partnerships" should include true partnering.
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but once gaps are filled reassess how money can be used for O&M.
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10. If it is made multipurpose quit putting a fence around all open spaces.
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11. Do not understand consequences.
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12. Thank you for honoring the need for wildlife corridors as well as need for humans to Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:02 PM
connect with natural areas to be inspired to protect them & live healthy lives.
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13. Plan should not in any way reduce the current & future acres of land that is habital
for wildlife & trails for people to get out in nature. The open lands we have are truly
a jewel we must protect at all costs.
The Land Conservation Adv. Board should be required to approve any decisions.
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14. Our natural areas should only allow non-motorized uses. No dogs in natural areas.
Parks should allow most non-motorized uses.
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Need cost-benefit analysis of each of these areas. Where does the money come
from to fund all of these effort? Increased fees? To homeowners? Businesses?
Yikes. No mandates please.
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2.
Planning for the Piudre River is scattered among multiple plans and city
departments. And the plans enjoy varying degrees of official status are being
honored in varying degrees. And integrating overview would be helpful.
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 7:19 AM
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3.
Incorporate micro parks into the urban areas. EDAW's a good example. Provide
habitat for flickers in neighborhoods and intentionally include more natural areas in
new developments for birds, squirrels, foxes, bats etc...Reduce the turf and
manicured landscaped area. Maybe half and half?
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4.
The most thought and energy has been devoted to this one section to the detriment
of most other policy objectives. There is no mention whatsoever of economic and
fiscal constrain to these policy choices which leaves the reader to believe we can
save the planet form human activity without the slightes concern for what is actually
achievable within a market-based economy.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 8:11 AM
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5.
I do not feel citizens have enough easily accessed and understood air quality
information. The city web site needs more Ft. Collins data in a single place rather
than referring citizens to various state websites.
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1. The summary tradeoffs is not complete. If taxes are a result of proposed direction Fri, Jul 2, 2010 1:20 PM
it could resource a family income. A TRADE OFF.
Look at requirements for manufacturers to bear the cost of recycling appliances/paint
-refrigerators/paint/computers/TV's.
3. The cache la Poudre is an extremely important resource for Ft. Collins. Enough
water has been diverted from the river. The city should go on record as opposing
any action that will compromise this resource-? using the proposed Glade reservoir.
4. What is meant in ENV12-A. "meet multiple use objectives" - opens the door to
ANYTHING.
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7.
Get your nose out of the progressive ICLEI late 19th & early 20th century, you know
where and connect with Judeo-Christian value based constitutional conservatism for
"We the people" FREEDOM!!
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consider a carbon tax on Xcel Energy Natural Gas use, similar to Boulder. This could Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:49 PM
provide additional funding for carbon reduction measures:
Energy conservation
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Transportation
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10. All of the good things we can do for our wonderful environment require employed tax Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:36 PM
paying residents & business to fund. We cannot take our eye off the ball-our
economy is the engine that drives all the extras we enjoy. Balance overall needs to
be 10% environment vs. 70% economy & 20% social.
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11. Need to look at everything from a cost/benefit point of view.
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12. We must continue to provide more open lands and trails and habitat as this a critical
part of our culture and with the fact that our region continues to grow. Thank you!
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13. All Environmental sections need a stronger discussion of balancing the cost of a goal Thu, Jul 1, 2010 4:21 PM
with the benefit of system improvement. There is a fine line for many of these items
between benefit and economic impact.
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Restore stream vs. creating our vision of what we want a stream to be
Open lands - natural areas - stormwater detention.
And please use incentives versus mandates!
14. Our environment provides the natural capital upon which our entire health depends. Thu, Jul 1, 2010 12:38 PM
There are countless examples of cities and countries that degraded their
environment and suffered declining standards of living. Our environmental policies
are also noticed nationwide. Fort Collins has built a strong, positive reputation for our
strong environmental policies based upon sustainability and envrironmental
protection.
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9
LIV1-B – “Spine” emphasis
19.6%
9
LIV1-C – Activities Center
emphasis
50.0%
23
Other (please explain)
10.9%
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1. The spine concept is already happening with Mason Street Corridor so City shold
focus on Activity Centers and how to connect these pieces.
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2. Goal is to reduce VMT, community relations.
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3. Current City Plan structure with enhanced Mason Street Corridor spine.
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4. • Fort Collins depends on non-residents for a significant portion of our sales tax
revenue. The City MUST make east-west traffic flow easy along key spines-Harmony, Prospect, Carpenter, Mulberry—or risk discouraging non-resident
shopping.
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5. Do all you can to encourage non-resident shopping to downtown, revitalized mall.
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6. I like this alternative best because it provides for investment and growth throughout Sun, Jul 11, 2010 10:17 PM
the existing (not having to use up vacant land, and not restricted to just the spine).
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7. I would like to see the Spine emphasis with strong east/west connectivity on major
corridors to connect to I-25 and the foothills, as well as other parts of the City.
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8. decentralize. Attractive neighborhood community gathering and shopping areas at
major cross roads so neighborhood can walk to shops and know their community.
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9. I think LIV1-B, but I need to study more.
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10. I live in southeast Fort Collins and work in either the southeast or in midtown.
Outside of the neighborhoods the southeast is developed in a very unsustainable
way. It strongly favors vehicle traffic over other modes and as a result drivers are
much less sympathetic to pedestrians or cyclists. I like the idea of emphasizing
activities centers throughout the city to benefit the most people. The spine
emphasis is good too, but won't help children and those not working or shopping
the "spine".
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11. Focus short should be on completing build out of current development areas but
not expanding to new development areas. Also opprotunisically spending funds to
attract employers. Lastly, infill or mixeeuse/housing alternatives. Emphasis should
should not be lost on "urban" family friendly development. (Think parks, rec
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centers, plazas and play grounds) Keeping it compact and low maintence doesn't
mean it can't be family friendly.
12. Let market dictate
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13. LIV1-B & LIV1-C
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16. I don't think you can go exclusively to B or C but need to integrate both into the
plan but with more emphasis on B. There are however going to always need to be
amenities and work and living somewhat scattered as in C.
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17. If we increase average density then we shoud offset it by protecting more
agricultural land and open space
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18. We need land use plans that are flexible enough to accomodate changing market
conditions
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19. Also around CSU
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20. Smart use of all via combination. Focus on downtown
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21. Second choice is LIV1-B
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22. E/W connects are important. Market should drive product and location.
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23. LIV1-A & LIV1-B
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24. Fort Collins relied on non-resident sales tax, must improve East/West traffic flow to
keep non-res $ important to allow the market to drive the product.
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25. We need to provide affordable housing to more people. The lowest income
segment of the population needs the most help and we need to create units for
30% AMI and below to meet the demand. We should reuse/redevelop existing
structures to the greatest degree possible to have the least economic and
environmental demand/impact
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26. With Mason Corridor an activity center too.
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Mini-communities within larger Fort Collins.
Avoid Centerra-style focus on local businesses.
SUPPORT WALKABLE/BIKABLE OPTIONS
14. LIV1-B and LIV1-C
We need both - I like the potential to focus on decentralizig the activity centers so
long as they are attractive and accessible - not anywhere USA (Centerra). Mason
Street Corridor is needed! Would be more attractive to visitors. Should have a more
urban center/ tourism focus.
15. Both LIV1-B & LIV1-C.
However we should not allowe buildings >5 stories outside of downtown
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Response
Percent
Respons
Count
Support
39.1%
18
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
34.8%
16
Neutral
17.4%
8
Do not support
8.7%
4
Other (please explain)
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1. Protect solar access and view corridors.
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2. Must keep building heights at a resonable height. Must work with adjacent
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3. I don't think the public will buy it, but if a builder wants to take a chance, let them.
Look at Penny Flats or the place next to Atzlan Center. They went higher but they
can't sell.
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4. 12 story?
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5. I would like the emphasis to be on repurposing existing buildings before the work
turns towards taller, new construction.
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6. Also reconsider the building heights allowed downtown. The tallest heights are
allowed in blocks that have structures most unlikely to redevelop.
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7. in order to support a BRT well you need the density don't you?
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8. let the market drive it
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9. I think Pat's palace (new building in Old Town) is an abomination.
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10. Exisiting housing and sunlight should be taken into acount. If a given neighborhood Tue, Jul 6, 2010 6:07 PM
enjoys mountain views these should be preserved if possible. Building urban
canyons can create maintence issues especially in the winter time. Where does the
snow from snow plowing go? Is there sunlight to melt the snow?
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11. Higher density means higher revenue. Infill is our best way to improve many things
like transportation, energy use, etc.
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12. Think of Paris - Most of the city is 2-5 stories
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13. Nothing more then 5. Need to protect our scenic mountain viewsheds
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14. Keep housing as is
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15. Would support if market drives.
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16. Market should drive heights
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17. Part of the charm of Fort Collins is the lack of high rises and the beautiful views we
enjoy. Density is good, but additional height is not.
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a small city feel and preserve views of the mountains. We can increase
development density in our inner core without sacrificing our small city feeling. We
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Percent
Respons
Count
Foothills Mall.
72.1%
31
Mason Corridor and Harmony Rd.
62.8%
27
Harmony Rd. and Zeigler Rd.
58.1%
25
Drake Rd and Timberline Rd.
53.5%
23
Campus West
44.2%
19
Willox St. and Mason Corridor
48.8%
21
Mountain Vista
41.9%
18
Other
25.6%
11
Nowhere
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1. Possibly downtown
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2. Not sure I support.
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3. Downtown
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4. Market should drive this
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5. Let the market drive the conversation. How can an email survey today predict what
we will need in 5 years from a viable project for our community? We can't and
should not pre-script everything.
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6. This is a very tentative answer for me - I would need more understanding of
specific proposals before fully committing my support.
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7. All along the Mason Corridor. If we want transit to be successful we need that
density that height affords.
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8. Should be driven by market needs
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9. Would need these along the rapid transit then step down from there.
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10. Next to the Gang of Fours homes and ICLEI agents on city staff. KIDDING!!!
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11. Multi-story yes, but not too tall.
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12. I would support higher building heights in campus west, if it were mostly
residential/affordable housing aimed at students, with the caveat that "historical"
neighborhoods around campus be re-zoned as single family housing only or that
student rentals in those neighborhoods be taxed an impact fee.
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13. Old Town
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14. Except downtown. It is critical to protect view sheds; this is a critical part of our
quality of life.
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15. Midtown
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16. DOWNTOWN in limited ways. Keep limits as is in all these places
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17. Eliminate all restrictions on height, let market dictate together with city gov't in
permit approval process.
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18. If market drives.
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19. Downtown
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20. Mulberry/Lemay
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21. We must increase density of development to decrease our vehicle miles traveled.
Nothing else has to date.
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22. Should look at higher than 8 stories too. At 8 stories and below the pro-forma not
work and prevent good projects from being developed. Please consider up to 12
stories, especially in the designated areas proposed above. I'm not suggesting this
for the entire city.
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Respons
Count
Support
76.1%
35
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
15.2%
7
Neutral
6.5%
3
Do not support
2.2%
1
Other (please explain)
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1. Let developers propose and execute. No reduction is fees or taxes.
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2. NEED "FLEXABILITY"
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3. We need to increase density and infill development.
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4. Focus on developing our inner core to limit sprawl.
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5. GREEN BUILDINGS
LOCAL BUSINESS
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6. Green building codes!
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7. Let's gain the benefit of existing infrastructure before investing in new roads,
electrical, sewer, etc.
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8. Infill, reuse existing when possible.
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9. Define a fee schedule idea as it related to differential costs.
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10. Our development regulations should accomodate appropriate infill and
redevelopment strategies that fit within sub-area and neighborhood plans.
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Respons
Count
Support
21.7%
10
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
13.0%
6
Neutral
41.3%
19
Do not support
23.9%
11
Other (please explain)
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1. I favor little development along I-25, preferring to maintain FC uniqueness. I like a
natural gateway and support natural barriers between communities.
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2. They should be addressed on an individual basis as needed.
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3. Let's put our limited money into what is inside the city and not the gateways.
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4. What kind of costs are associated? Increased visibility is good.
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5. Who will pay for it?
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6. I like the concept of established gateways to the city, but the additional funding
required doesn't seem like the highest priority we should be setting aside money
for.
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7. Think we have bigger fish to fry. If this could be done peripherally to other activities
more important at this time, I would not be opposed.
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8. Concerned about potential costs / value of land
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9. I appreciate communities and take note when they put the energy and funds into an Thu, Jul 8, 2010 4:23 PM
attractive gateway archway, statue, sign etc...
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No public subsidies.
10. And I need to study further.
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11. Don't spend $ on Gateways. Invest in what is inside the city.
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12. This is a waste of money, unless there's a specific commercial attraction you're
trying to promote, in which case you want to weigh against increased traffic and
sales tax revenues.
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13. Low Priority:
Would rather spend $ in community-based redevelopment
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14. I think more should be done along I-25 but not along College.
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16. Requires careful evaluation of cost & benefits.
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17. Planning only - Low priority development implement as the area develops
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18. Developers should pay for gateways
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19. Who will pay for it?
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20. Concerned about cost
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21. Enforced development standards and requlations will make it obvious that one is in
Fort Collins. I don't think spending city money on this should be a priority.
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I-25 and Highway 392
33.3%
7
I-25 and Harmony
85.7%
18
I-25 and Prospect
38.1%
8
I-25 and Mulberry
81.0%
17
I-25 and Vine
19.0%
4
I-25 and Mountain Vista
28.6%
6
South College and Carpenter
33.3%
7
North College and Willox
33.3%
7
Other (Please Explain)
4.8%
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Natural landscaping
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Maybe all, but didn't want to be greedy
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3.
If these are going to go anywere they should be at the main north/south entrances to Tue, Jul 6, 2010 6:07 PM
the cith and Mulberry leading to down town. Where do you want to drive your traffic?
Where can you expand traffic carrying capacity?
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4.
Keep looking natural to speak to our value of open space and natural areas.
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5.
Develop a plan and implement as opportunities occur.
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6.
W. Harmony (from Horsetooth Res.)
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7.
I-25 and Harmony is the best "looking" entry to the City off I-25. I would like the
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gateway to be a more direct access to downtown, but that would be Mulberry and it
certainly is not an area we want to promote as the gateway. So until we have a better
entry off I-25 I think Harmony should be it. Prospect would be another candidate with
the visitor center there, but it too needs work.
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Percent
Respons
Count
Support
68.2%
30
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
25.0%
11
Neutral
4.5%
2
Do not support
2.3%
1
Other (please explain)
0.0%
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Include small housing options with no vehicle accommodations.
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Protect the existing neighborhoods from too abrupt a transition to higher densities
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3.
not sure I understand fully
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4.
I need to study more.
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5.
Use Visual Preference survey with neighborhoods to gain support of higher density.
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6.
duh.
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7.
As development density increases in Ft. Collins, we must work with the existing
neighborhoods to provide a smooth transition that protect the neighborhoods and
gain acceptance to the higher density.
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Transitions in height
75.0%
27
Transitions in use (e.g.,
commercial adjacent to singlefamily residential)
75.0%
27
Spacing between new and existing
development.
36.1%
13
Don’t know/not sure.
8.3%
3
Other (Please Explain)
8.3%
3
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Transitions should help maintain the character of each area. This could be anything
from changes to road requirments, lighting, architecture. Depends on the uses and
locations.
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My concern is the bureaucracy required to get buy-in from existing neighbors and
have the round table discussions prior to development. Some people prefer to
disagree just for the sake of being obstinent and don't offer suggestions. This could
slow down development.
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3.
Another area I need to study more.
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4.
Higher density & activities on arterials.
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5.
Transportation, Benefits to existing neighborhoods?
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7.
Need more clarification
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8.
Use all the established transition tools.
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Respons
Count
Support
39.5%
17
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
27.9%
12
Neutral
4.7%
2
Do not support
27.9%
12
Other (please explain)
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1. The success of this would depend on ability to work on transitions mentioned
above.
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2. Let the market determine the need not the city or council.
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3. There was good discussion about this topic at the June 29th session with regard to Sun, Jul 11, 2010 10:17 PM
identifying existing vacant space within the city that could become higher density
housing. Letting neighbors have a voice about where there is opportunity for re-use
would be a great idea for a future survey (similar to the pedestrian and bicycle
surveys). While living in another state I resided in a multi-unit building amidst single
family homes and everyone co-existed very well. I've seen this work well and
believe it has a place in the future of Fort Collins, as opposed to mega-apartment
complexes that currently exist.
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4. This is a market driven concept not a city imposed dictate. It could be encouraged
through zoning, but the market should utimately determine what is acceptable.
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5. Diverse housing types for diverse population.
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6. Mix of housing types means just that, do not lose FC's family friendly atmosphere in Tue, Jul 6, 2010 6:07 PM
your rush to approve infill devleopment. These are not mutually exlusive. Small
parks, plazas, rec centers, and library branches, can all be easily integrated with
infill development if properly planned out.
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7. Care arguement is false - we are already overbuilt on non-single family.
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8. Keep residential neighborhoods intact. Infill first before redevelopment. Addicts
CSU Student and Staff needs (40,000 people)
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9. All housing types should be elgible in all areas, permit application is time to decide
on each project.
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10. Overbuilt w/ attached homes-let market drive.
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11. Planners are not smarter than the market. We are already overbuilt on non-single
family product. Need to build what people want.
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13. Need more clarification
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14. We must increase housing denstity on Fort Collins to reduce the consumption of
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Respons
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Support
43.5%
20
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
13.0%
6
Neutral
13.0%
6
Do not support
30.4%
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1. Some protection is needed but don't want to stifle diversity.
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2. We must protect our existing neighborhoods from too many student rentals.
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3. Historic designation process appears to have been driven by a few with carte
blanche ability to drive around a stick labels on buildings. Need more transparency
and community involvement/input in this process.
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4. As someone not immediately affected by this issue, it is hard for me to form a
strong opinion. My first impulse is to leave the government out of the free market
and allow development to happen naturally without so many rules. On the other
hand, I can understand how this could go horribly wrong without any controls in
place. Tough to answer!
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5. I somewhat support, however I am torn and don't want the City to limit me on how I
can remodel my house. Flexibility would be nice. If my house is old, but I want
double pane and a compromise would be to make them double pane but look
attractive and fit with the older house I'd like that option. If I want to add more
period detail to the outside than originally was there, I want to be able to do that
too. Bull dozing the building down is an extreme option, but buildings need to
change over time to some degree. I don't like a cute old craftsman being replaced
by a low quality new house with no architectural character at all.
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6. Needs more study by me.
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7. Provide high density residential near CSU to relieve pressures on near by
neighborhoods.
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8. Old town character must be preserved. Period.
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9. Just because a house is old doesn't mean it's historic - let redevelopment happen.
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10. The majority of infill occurs only when the market demands it. Need more
transparency!
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11. We should support retention and redevelopment at every opportunity and reduce
new construction
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12. Protect the neighborhoods from the nuisance student rentals.
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Response
Percent
Respons
Count
LIV8-A: Maintain Existing
Affordable Housing Programs at
Current Levels
60.0%
27
LIV8-B: Expand Existing Housing
Programs.
35.6%
16
Other (please explain)
4.4%
2
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1. I'm not familiar enough with this to comment.
Tue, Jul 13, 2010 3:49 PM
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2. Provide protection for existing trailer parks.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 4:54 PM
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3. Reduce fees in development/construction which are major impediments to
affordable housing.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 6:58 AM
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4. To properly plan for the future of the city requires that we extrapolate the housing
needs into the future and prepare accordingly. It is prudent that we accept an
increasing need for affordable housing in the future and take steps to be ready for it.
Unfortunately, I can't follow up that statement with a clear picture of where the
funding should come from.
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5. I live in the northern, attend FCHA Board meetings and am supportive of some of
the groups pushing for more and better affordable housing.
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6. Address this through transportation and mixed use develpment. Allow market forces Tue, Jul 6, 2010 6:07 PM
to dictate building. However, either force devlelopers to set asside part of their
greenfield development projects for affordable housing or offset in other local
geographics areas. That is, some % of developers investment must constitute
affordable housing.
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7. There is not enough affordable housing. The economic standards are too high for
what you consider to be affordable. We need to maintain quality and ADA
compliance as well and make sure that what is affordable is in areas on the transit
lines
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 10:11 AM
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8. City should reduce development + construction fees as a way to lower housing
costs.
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9. New construction should be the last option - retrofit/upgrade existing homes.
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10. Cost of housing is primarily a supply and demand issue. Attracting new employers
and enhancing job creation will result in more expensive housing
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11. Redevelop distressed neighborhoods for affordable housing
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12. Consider reducing development/construction fees. The city drives up land costs by
lowering supply through open space thus making housing less affordable
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LIV8: HOUSING AFFORDABILITY
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13. Like idea of greening/remodeling older residential structures, esp. for older
residents.
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 4:04 PM
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14. Greatly needs expansion for more units 30% AMI and under and more affordable
housing options for all who are struggling.
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LIV9: ALTERNATIVE LANDSCAPE TRATMENTS
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Do you support the policy direction presented in LIV9-A: Establish More “Nature-Friendly” Landscape
Requirements?
Response
Percent
Respons
Count
Support
56.5%
26
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
10.9%
5
Neutral
21.7%
10
Do not support
10.9%
5
Other (please explain)
0.0%
0
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1. Allow more xeriscape by disallow the "rocks only" landscapes.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:04 PM
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2. The city should not require. Another mandate with costs.
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3. Anything promoting the reduction of turf grass has my support. It would be great to Sun, Jul 11, 2010 10:17 PM
have the landscaping regulations be supportive of a more sustainable environment,
thus addressing the triple bottom line directly. I'm sure all city residents have seen
examples of city sprinklers running during a rain shower and wondered why it has
to be like that. With less grass and more native plantings I see many benefits.
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4. I am against hostage holding extortionate extremism blocking 21st century reality in Thu, Jul 8, 2010 2:48 PM
planning/implementation.
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5. Need to allow options to water intense turf grass. Disallow "just rock" but allow
more xeriscape.
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6. Fine to encourage but do NOT mandate
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7. YES!
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8. Do not require
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9. Concerned about maintenance costs
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10. Do not REQUIRE
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11. Not required.
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12. Natural landsacaping is a great idea
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13. Allow more xeriscape, and non-turf landscapes. No "just rocks" but other growing
ground cover.
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LIV10: CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER NEAR DOWNTOWN
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Do you support the policy direction presented in LIV10: Carry Forward Existing Policies Related to
Poudre River Corridor Activities and Protections?
Response
Percent
Respons
Count
Support
55.8%
29
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
11.5%
6
Neutral
1.9%
1
Do not support
23.1%
12
Other (please explain)
7.7%
4
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LIV10: CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER NEAR DOWNTOWN
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Poudre River Corridor Activities and Protections?
1. Keep the river free of development.
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2. Keep the river as natrual as possible through the city. Allow access only via trails
and paths to the river. Keep hardscape, concrete development away from the
floodway. Maintain open land at the flood plain for riparian protection and wildlife
corridors.
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3. • Where it passes through the greater downtown area, the Poudre is an URBAN
river and needs to be more accessible to the public.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 11:07 AM
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4. The Poudre river is a great asset to our community and I think continuing the
existing policies to protect and enhance its use are valuable.
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 10:17 PM
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5. The planning process needs a more comprehensive assessment of community
awareness and perceptions of the river.
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 6:51 AM
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6. Where the river passes through the city (College to Lincoln) we need better access
to the river and more of an urban feel to it - NOT the San Antonio River Walk, but
more than today.
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7. Development to promote physical and visual access to the river.
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8. I support river development in Old Town. I want restaurants, shopping and open air Fri, Jul 9, 2010 3:14 PM
cafes.
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9. Add simple amenities - benches facing river with backs, some tables!
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10. Other cities have benches that overlook their river. It would be nice to have
benches with backs - invites people to sit, reflect, read, have lunch, etc. Stone
benches are cold! Lack backs.
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11. I like the idea of incorporating the river into the urban design in the downtown area.
Estes Park and Breckenridge have great urban creeks sides. The document says
Take additional action to define Poudre River Corridor Activities and
Protections....the statement above doesn't match. I don't know what the existing
policies say.
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12. I need to study this more.
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13. Where river passes thru the greater downtown area allow more urban type access - Fri, Jul 2, 2010 9:58 AM
it is an URBAN river.
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14. Need protections for environment and support community.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 9:39 AM
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15. Yes- provide habitat and environmental protections - restoration to a level that other Fri, Jul 2, 2010 9:35 AM
species would want to be. Also - offer river parks (not green open space next to a
park - that's separate). Recreation on the river with space for people to observe attracts visitors and nutures youth development. Ex: Kayak, canoe, raft, tube, FUN!
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16. Ensure we protect animal habitat and keep natural looking; keep buildings away
from edge. Let's not become Estes Park!
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17. I think the River could be an amazing opportunity for controlled development where Fri, Jul 2, 2010 5:37 AM
possible. Developments along rivers have been very successful in many cities.
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18. The river is a barrier that limits the community's use and enjoyment of the Poudre
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 5:01 PM
River. The River needs to be integrated into the community to serve as an amenity,
not as a wasteland for discarded concrete and indigents
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LIV10: CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER NEAR DOWNTOWN
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19. Poudre is an urban river - should be treated as such.
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20. Need to increase public access to this URBAN river.
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21. When it passes through downtown its an URBAN river and needs to be more
accessible to the public.
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22. Access from Old Town to River
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23. Need more clarification but in general, the river needs to be allowed to remain as
natural and unrestricted and unimpacted by people as possible
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24. Protect the riparian zones and wildlife corridors along the river corridor. Avoid the
"San Antonio River Walk" concepts. The river walk in San Anonio is a drainage
ditch, not a river. Keep the river as natural as it can be and we can make it a selling
point for the city. Provide some access and observation points for the handicap,
elderly and very young but keep the corridor open and natural.
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25. We need to make the river more accessible to the activities and people in
downtown. This is an urban area and the river should reflect that with balance to
nature. That is to say, I'm not promoting a San Antonio solution, but definitely more
than what exists today with some restaurants, housing, and businesses sharing the
river too.
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1. We need to be sure to build flexability into the system. Our city is different in
geographical areas and a "One size fits all" approach is flawed. New policy is
appropriate but staff needs the flexibility to deal with each project on an individual
basis always considering "common sense" with development standards.
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2. Thank you for the opportunity to be part of the city's future.
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3. Protect the natural characteristics of the river. Allow limited access for the public but Fri, Jul 9, 2010 3:18 PM
maintain wildlife corridor througout downtown.
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4. Yes, considerably including Glad reservoir and expanding Halligan reservoir.
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5. What I'd like to see most of all is an integrated livability, transportation and
economic devlopment plan. How do the pieces of the puzzle fit together in a
coherent way?
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8. I like the spine idea, but you are going to have to address the train noise more fully,
I have lived in and visited many cities and the train noise here is excessive.
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9. The obvious. Help us create the best river corridor in Colorado/World.
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Livablity is inheranly tied to employment and transportation. Can I walk to the store?
Ride my bicycle to the library? Take the bus to work? Do my kids have a place to
play nearby?
Today's families have much less time to maintain traditional single family homes,
however FC is today a singular family friendly town, with lots of indoor and outdoor
activity centers for families and young people. This unique character can not be
lost.
Employment opportunities are also critical to deciding where to settle down and
raise a family. This must be addressed either by attacting more employers or by
facilitating transportation to major employment centers.
As FC thinks about its future, it can no longer think in terms of a stand alone
community. It must consider both its regional limitations and opportunities. Only in
this way can it really afford to dream its big dream and turn it into reality.
6. Do you believe in infill or don't you?
Since past councils have ringed the City with open space, we can't grow out so we
need to grow inward and upward. Rhetoric about supporting infill now comes faceto-face with reality. Many of the infill projects will not be economically feasible
unless buildings get taller - they don't pencil out.
7. Change Mason Corridor to 5 stories; it should not be 7.
We should note that a negative of allowiing >5 story buildings is loss of viewsheds
(environmental impact)
Thank You!
10. No analysis of the current market & changes since City Plan.
We should learn from the past versus ignoring it.
11. I strongly support Mason Corridor "spine" redevelopment. This would encourage
high density mixed use near public transportation w/ East-West bus grid.
We need more multi-family "condo"/townhomes for young families.
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Based on the choices presented in SW1 – Community Safety, which option do you prefer most?
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Percent
Response
Count
SW1-A: Decrease Levels of
Service
8.0%
2
SW1-B: Maintain Levels of Service
88.0%
22
Other (please explain)
4.0%
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1. Increase level of police service. start a "Transportation Patrol" and increase
observation devices (stop sign cameras, traffic cameras, speeding cameras etc.
Increase presence in areas to reduce crime and increase investigations team.
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2. Increase as needed due to pop. growth. Having a safe community is of most
importance, to myself & my family, even if it means a tax increase!
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 10:33 AM
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3. Seek new funding / taxes.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 10:28 AM
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4. I support PREVENTATIVE measures to create a sfe community by design (vs.
enforcement)
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 10:16 AM
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5. Reduce police involvement time AND increase community safety by:
1) lighting areas at night to reduce violent crime in those areas?
2) City ordinance to require bicyclists to wear helmets!
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6. More citien training, same police
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7. We should strive to maintain levels of service. However, that does not mean
immediately adding millions of $ to both fire and police. The fact that the city has
better then average fire and police response times and low crime rates is
inconsistent with the claim that both fire and police are severely understaffed
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8. Need to educate the community about how crime is increasing. The case has not
been made to the public about how our safety is in jeopardy.
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Fire service is fine where it is. However they should be out on the streets more
helping with observations of the going on's in the community to help the police.
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SW2: ACTIVE LIVESTYLES
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Response
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Support
48.0%
12
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
28.0%
7
Neutral
16.0%
4
Do not support
8.0%
2
Other (please explain)
0.0%
0
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1. Not the role of the city.
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2. Not role of the city
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3. This policy would also benefit local employers since more physically active
employees have been found to be more productive.
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4. Absolutely!
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5. Not the City's Job!
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6. Encouraging walking and biking--yes. We should not invest in additional rec centers
or programs right now.
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Do you agree with the policy direction proposed in SW3-A: Support Healthy Living?
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Response
Count
Support
40.0%
10
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
28.0%
7
Neutral
4.0%
1
Do not support
28.0%
7
Other (please explain)
0.0%
0
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1. You don't say what the costs are, so why would someone not support healthy living.
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2. Is this governments job?
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3. Not role of the City
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4. Mental health services needs seem to be growing!
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 10:33 AM
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5. Emphasize alternative health care options. It is this form of care that creates
wellness.
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6. Would like to also see development incentive for alternative medicine centers.
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7. Not the City's Job!
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8. This does not seem to be the City;s job. Also, citizens are not impacted by the City's
wellness program or by the well city designation.
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SW4: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ACCESS
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41.7%
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Do you agree with the policy direction proposed in SW4-A: Improve Access to Health and Human
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Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
16.7%
4
Neutral
29.2%
7
Do not support
8.3%
2
Other (please explain)
4.2%
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1. This is not a city function.
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2. Is there a problem now?
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3. This I am sure is greatly needed by a specific sector of our population.
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4. See decentraliz clinics N, S, E, W to reduce transportation to 2 area.
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5. Cluster medical & (?) health access - for all levels of economic status.
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6. Support only if you include wellness/alternative care centers (i.e. accupunchure
naturopaths, etc.)
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7. This is critical!
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8. People are already struggling, adn then getting to agencies that could help is yet
another problem.
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Response
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Support
56.0%
14
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
8.0%
2
Neutral
4.0%
1
Do not support
32.0%
8
Other (please explain)
0.0%
0
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This is not a city function.
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Not City role and should not discourage commerce.
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Local CSA groups are so important to our sustainability and should be helped as
needed. Leave some open spaces for these CSAs to grow and expand as the
city/population does.
More neighborhood gardens added (expecially to new neighborhoods) would be
great!
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Working from how to grow & how to cook-more planning. How to make best use of
all options to grown own or expand on food bank capacity.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 10:25 AM
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5.
I support the objective introduced that seniors and disabled should receive grab
bars, wheel chair ramps at not cost when needed.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 10:18 AM
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!!! I support local agriculture. Would like to see emphasis on small, organic plots.
*Restrictions on water use for lawns-encourage gardens
*Make it illegal for HOAs to ban gardens.
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"Well City" by Wellness Council of America
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8.
In the future it will be critically important that we have the ability to supprt more of
the community's food needs locally. The days of shipping food items an average of
1500 miles will come to an end when gas prices go way up.
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Not the City's Job!
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10. Not city's job. Private business can provide this. I do support revising policies that
prevent pople from gardening on thier private land. I do not think parks should be
made available for agriculture.
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When I read this topic section...I thought that I would be answering questions about
police/fire. Feels like questions folks in Boulder would be asked to answer.
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Most of these seem beyond the scope of the City Government's role
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3.
better wayfinding signs for visitors and even non-visitors to find access points to get
onto the spring creek, poudre, and mason trails. I live here and have a hard time
knowing how to get into the trails. wayfinding while your there too showing exits and
what streets they are exiting to. From downtown to mason trail, very difficult to
navigate. Need wayfinding.
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Supporting quality early child care and more safe place for our kids to be when
they're not in school.
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5.
Besides transportation to access - why not clinics in
N-close to health district
S - Harmony clinic
E - Windsor
W - Shields
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I support safety of seniors.
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7.
Support any thoughts on safety for seniors (include grabbars etc - (?) )
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Reach out to younger people!
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10. In an effort to increase wellness, have more health training available for very low
fees or FREE. I.e. - CPR training, Basic First Aid.
Can we have more prevention things? Better lighted streets in high traffic crime
prone areas i.e. downtown at 2:00 AM, too many young women at risk. I don't think
we need MORE police, just more in more crime prone areas. Too many in SE
quadrant, not enough in NE (saw 11 police cars in 20 minutes on Timberline, at 5:30
PM, WHY?) Rarely see them in NE area (where I work).
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We have so many passionate ideas that are much more creative.
Find a way to engage 20-30 somethings!
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Emergency Management Systems
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Do you agree with the policy direction proposed in CPR1-A: Integrate and Promote Arts and Culture?
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Response
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Support
48.3%
14
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
27.6%
8
Neutral
24.1%
7
Do not support
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When business and citizens have economic vitality they fund and participate in the
the arts and culture. You are putting the wrong horse in front of the cart.
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2.
Where the City can support, but should not take active role in programming.
Sat, Jul 10, 2010 6:52 AM
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economic development will drive the arts
Thu, Jul 8, 2010 3:30 PM
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4.
The City needs to be an enabler, not too involved in planning actual activities. There
are a number of capable, dynamic groups that are perfectly capable of managing
their activities.
Sun, Jul 4, 2010 12:10 PM
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5.
Utilize Beet Street & The Streetmosphere idea throughout the community-like in
parks, the horticulture center, the downtown museum, in pocket parks.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:46 AM
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6.
If we focus on economic development first, there will be enough income in the local
economy for people to patronize the arts.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:36 AM
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7.
City involvement must still allow variety of offerings - programs throughout city, not
just downtown.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:33 AM
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8.
Two of my favorite local cultural aspects are: craft beer and outdoor recreation.
Those are our culture!
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:28 AM
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9.
Need to partner more with FCMDA (FCMDCA) to sustain.
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10. Like the idea of an arts council.
Increase collaboration instead of competition between arts organizations.
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Response
Count
Support
41.4%
12
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
13.8%
4
Neutral
20.7%
6
Do not support
24.1%
7
Other (please explain)
0.0%
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1. Should focus on economic development.
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3. Definitely support the SCFD concept to help this get off the ground.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:46 AM
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4. Focus on economic development.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:36 AM
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5. There are many needs, and limited funds. Consider a fee that blends several aspects
(culture, parks and recreation). Too many separate fees = confusion & voter overload
= voter rejection.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:33 AM
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6. The city appears to be neglecting FCMDCA.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:25 AM
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7. Focus on Eco Deve - when pople have disposable income - they will support the arts.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:20 AM
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2. Funding remains an issue; perhaps a surcharge on tickets sold. This would place the
burden more on the actual users.
Right now arts and culture in the City seem concentrated in the Downtown area; these
activities (as well as art in public places) need to be dispersed throughout the city.
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Response
Count
Support
46.4%
13
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
42.9%
12
Neutral
7.1%
2
Do not support
3.6%
1
Other (please explain)
0.0%
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1.
pocket parks? Seems like lots of maintenance. Spring Canyon is a great example of
what you should be doing. Fossil Creek park is the same.
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2.
Concerned about costs
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 11:53 AM
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3.
use storm water detention ponds for multiple uses. During storms people are indoors Thu, Jul 8, 2010 2:58 PM
anyway. This could be a very complimentary use of space.
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4.
Right now the use and acquistion policies of city open space seems at odds with this Sun, Jul 4, 2010 12:10 PM
plan: there is limited access/usability for many of the open spaces and a huge chunk
of open space land/$$ is tied up many miles from the city. This is at odds with the
goal of limiting driving miles to access the amenity. This is a disconnect that can
begin to be addressed immediately.
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5.
Absolutely. You can have great quality in a creative smaller pocket park that is
interactive.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:46 AM
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6.
Like the idea of multi-use.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:36 AM
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7.
Most important challenge now is maintaining existing parks. Sales tax is unreliable; a Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:33 AM
fee on utility bills is a better option.
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8.
I, along with a group of 60 or more would like a whitewater kayak park near
downtown. This park would be such a hit. Used by all during hot days & gereate
revenue for downtown.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:28 AM
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9.
Multi-use makes sense (local ag doesn't fit not role for government)
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:20 AM
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10. Fort Collins does a great job for city trails and parks!!!
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Response
Percent
Response
Count
Support
31.0%
9
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
31.0%
9
Neutral
34.5%
10
Do not support
3.4%
1
Other (please explain)
0.0%
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2. Recreation trends change over time. Thus, I am leery of having too many recreational Sun, Jul 4, 2010 12:10 PM
facilities directed toward a specific population The present Senior Center is an
example of this. It was designed for a time when seniors were more sedentary. Now,
seniors are active and want health club type exercise amenities and the present
facillity is not really equipped for this.
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3. Need to assess which programs are not highly utilized and either drop them or find
other more popular activities that are trending now. Need to have a line item on the
utility bill to fund the park maintenance needs. Even students who live off campus use
our parks a lot & should pay to keep them clean & operable. Most of the damage
comes from young people disrespecting the property.
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4. Coordinating with other groups fine but not at taxpayer expense.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:36 AM
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5. Do we need separate facilities for everyone? (dedicated)
Take the Sr. Center. It was built for a sedentary population, but today's seniors are
more active - building's design is wrong for this population.
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6. Whitewater recreation downtown!
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7. Coordination makes sense - but shouldn't come with tax payer expense.
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1.
Please do something about the graffiti - it is sad.
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2.
art on the corners like Grand Junction. They have a very vibrant and interesting artsy Thu, Jul 8, 2010 2:58 PM
downtown. I love the utility box art. Murals are really great too. Can we add more of
these?
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Make Canyon street into an urban park or something else. the intersection of
mulbery is really dangerious and the amount of traffic on Canyon doesn't seem to be
very high for such a wide paved area. Make this an urban park.
Linear parks like Golden Gate and Lithia Park in Ashland Oregon when well
designed provide a more rich experience than an open turf and tree area. Design
with more surprise in mind can use space more efficiently.
3.
Bike safety and education
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4.
A directed, continuing funding source, such as a fee on the utility bill, needs to be the Sun, Jul 4, 2010 12:10 PM
first order of business here. No amenity should be built until there is a source of O&M
for it.
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Amenities need to be located throughout the City, including Art and Culture offerings.
The trail system needs to be a priority goal, as it serves many different interests
(recreation, transportation, air quallity.)
5.
Need to take a look at suspending the natural areas tax for a few years and move
some additional funds to recreation & parks maintenance while the city figures out
how & whether it will have the funds needed to keep maintenance up. Stop building
larger community parks and work on streetscapses, pocket parks, medians, etc.
More diversified multi-cultural activities that are visible to the community in opne
spaces like downtown also help to educate all of us white homogenous folks. If
people keep asking for diversity, we need to provide the experience to help educate
folks.
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6.
Support to build a city tennis courts. Tennis is a life long sport for all ages. Increase
population-more retired seniors come. Will attract more people.
Children are our future. Good for young players. Will provide for tennis player (all
level, everyone) play year around. No effect(ly?) weather conditions.
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7.
Reliable, continuing source of funding for O & M for parks & recreation. This is NOT
a sales tax.
Use some natural areas $$ for park maintenance.
Don't build huge, over-layered parks (like Edora), or expensive-to-maintain features
(water features). Emphasize local areas of serenity.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:33 AM
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8.
We moved away from pocket parks and smaller open space because of high O & or
costs - why are we now going back to it?
Why no discussion of funding. Need to look beyond sales tax and be creative.
Local ag doesn't fit - feels like a private agenda vs. community focus.
Attractions - where does that fit?
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9.
Regional district rather than city district?
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10. 1. Protect and enhance trees - important to Ft. Collins
2. Partnership in culture with CSU and others to be more cost effective.
3. Use more volunteer services for park maintenance.
4. Protect the environment when developing park resources.
5. Need more information in (?) to balance priorities for each program.
6. Work for more opportunities to partner with other groups i.e. I can Ft. Collins
natural areas help w/Ft. Collins park objectives.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:14 AM
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11. It would be nice to see more public pools and possibly another baseball sports
complex.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 11:09 AM
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Respons
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Support
7.8%
4
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
9.8%
5
Neutral
5.9%
3
Do not support
72.5%
37
Other (please explain)
3.9%
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1. The City might be able to cut back on some areas like snow removal, but I would
hate to see less transit service
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2. Maintain existing streets but no road expansion; develop public transportation
locally and regionally.l
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3. We need to contiue to support our transportation infrastructure.
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4. We must support our infrastructure and invest in our transportation systems.
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5. We must confront growth in VMT's by increasing transportaton funding.
Tue, Jul 6, 2010 12:17 PM
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6. Your own description portrays this as a dumb idea. The funds can be found in
increased taxes, federal grants and elimination of wasteful projects. Use these
funds to increase services to counteract the negative results of service reduction.
You said it, pay me now or pay me later, now is better.
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7. I believe some of this could be done w/o much negative impact. Snow removal
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costs for residential streets could be moved to home owner associations and
neighborhoods. Many streets are overly wide and could be narrowed to reduce cost
of over paving and would reduce peoples speeding
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8. Economically devastating not to take care of streets.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 10:01 AM
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9. Economically this is devastating!
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10. Economic killer
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11. Get off the ICLEI, green weenie, climate change histeria, European/old (?)/CA/NE
sniff, sniff elites.
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12. Minivans for senior housing every day on fixed schedule
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13. Reducing services would detract from our ability to be a city of Choice.
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Support
28.0%
14
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
30.0%
15
Neutral
14.0%
7
Do not support
28.0%
14
Other (please explain)
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1. Reducing speeds on arterial streets would make for safer conditions for lighter
motor vehicles of the future and non-motorized modes. Flexibility will be needed to
accommodate a wider variety of vehicles and modes.
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2. We need to make our streets more pedestrian and bicycle friendly and we need to
calm traffic.
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3. If done in areas like Stover north of Drake where the street is so wide it makes you
crazy to drive at 25 mph, yes it could be beneficial.
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4. Make more pedestrian and bicycle friendly slow traffic. Calm traffic.
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5. People drive WAY to fast in this community and we don't do anything about it.
ANYTHING you do to stop speeding is good. More red light cameras, more
expensive speeding tickets, road designs that protect peds and bikes and mopeds
etc.
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6. Attempt to "get people out of their cars"-frustration up, productivity down, pollution
up-idling cars.
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7. Attempt to 'get' people out of cars will not work-Will be frustrating, increase pollution Fri, Jul 2, 2010 9:52 AM
and against triple bottom line.
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8. Don't over-build for bikes. We will always need vehicle corridors. (car/bus)
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10. Not enough density and alternate modes to work.
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11. Remove all 2 lane R turns, time traffice lights, remove ped bulbs, remove islands
on downtown college Ave. to allow left and right turns.
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12. No fixed sail, modify, innovate, integrate with reglity, bus, taxis and ?, needs of
disabled and elderly.
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13. The concerns that I have with this choice is that it can't be the ONLY thing done,
because it doesn't address existing congestion issues and regional links. I'm also
not clear on how this is considered to be "increasing flexibility that exists in current
traffic operations". I lean towards supporting it because it makes sense to think of
roads differently than in the past and plan accordingly.
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Respons
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Support
47.9%
23
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
25.0%
12
Neutral
20.8%
10
Do not support
6.3%
3
Other (please explain)
0.0%
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Support peripheral roads for service vehicles, transit, and cars. Plan for a transit
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2.
The focus should be on high frequency transit.
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3.
District and Activity specific design.
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4.
It's obvious that this provides the greatest change in behavior with increased transit
ridership and reduced vehicle miles. This is achieved with approxiamatly the same
money as some of the other choices.
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5.
Focus this on when development occurs and get developer to pony up.
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6.
This would promote more use of public transportation.
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7.
Incorporate system management and mobility components.
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8.
If this had been done in late 19th or early 20th century, this would have made sense.
Not now or in the future.
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9.
Very mixed feelings about this proposal -- I support mass transit and would like to see Thu, Jul 1, 2010 9:33 PM
it developed, but this plan feels like it could divide the city into 'those lucky enough to
benefit from the ETC focus' vs. everyone else. If my neighborhood streets and
commute routes get neglected while I watch improvements in select areas, I will have
a hard time feeling the benefit.
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Respons
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Support
44.0%
22
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
10.0%
5
Neutral
26.0%
13
Do not support
18.0%
9
Other (please explain)
2.0%
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1. We need to enhance opportunities for bicycle and pedestrian transportation within
town. We should use the existing irrigation ditches as paths / trails through and
between neighborhoods.
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2. Don't want to divert resources from more important issues.
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3. Need to provide more options for pedestrian and bicycle trails/routes. Use the
irrigation ditches as off-road trails.
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4. We must invest in alternatives and trails to reduce VMT's.
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5. Strongly agree!!!
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6. But would divert money for higher priorities.
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7. Would divert money from key travel corridors.
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8. We need to focus more on these types of alternatives.
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9. Impact on $ for roads?
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10. Depends on cost.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 8:58 AM
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11. Also leaning toward supporting (needs refinement)
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 8:55 AM
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12. I want a government supplied coolie to pull my all weather rickshaw.
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13. People use the trails for dogwalking.
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14. Teach the bicyclists there are other people on the road.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 8:32 AM
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15. Combining this with other transportation choices makes a lot of sense. I would like
to see more linkages from the trail system to the major neighborhood centers
because doing so reduces the cars/pollution/gas needs of the city.
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16. I'd hate to see motorized vehicles of any kind on the current trail system.
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38.3%
18
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
25.5%
12
Neutral
29.8%
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1. Timing of lights is already very good.
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2. Least cost planning, greater efficiency, more transit.
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3. Do not understand this
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4. Let's use information technologies to make our existing signals smarter.
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5. Use information technology to get the most of our signals.
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6. Use information technology to help time and guide our existing infrastructure.
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7. Concern about peak demand pricing on streets/parking lots would divert $ from key Fri, Jul 2, 2010 9:52 AM
corridors.
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8. This concept of managing peak travel times through technology is crucial.
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9. Would prefer to reduce congestions by encouraging "alternative" transport.
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10. Peak demand pricing impact on citizen is concerning.
Fri, Jul 2, 2010 9:18 AM
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11. I think I support, but need to study.
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12. This makes sense to maximize the effectiveness of current systems, but also look
towards combining it with future looking choices as outlined in some of the other
proposals. The tiered pricing idea is interesting when considering Old Town - it
would be easier (not looking for parking) and cheaper (not paying for a garage
spot) if I could ride my bike there, but currently the trail system is hit or miss to get
me there. That's why I think combining this with other choices is important.
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Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
18.4%
9
Neutral
18.4%
9
Do not support
16.3%
8
Other (please explain)
4.1%
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1. The MSP needs to be more REAL in some areas--don't show major arterials where Tue, Jul 13, 2010 4:07 PM
we will not be able to actually widen streets etc.
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2. Emphasis should be on implementing the transit strategic plan.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 4:51 PM
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3. We need to implement the Transit Plan and the Pedestrian Plan.
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4. I need to study this more.
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5. Implement the Pedestrian & Transit Plans.
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6. There are too many empty buses. I'd like to see service reduced, or eliminated on
low usage routes and the saved money be used for better bike paths in the city.
Mon, Jul 5, 2010 1:51 PM
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7. This is fine as long as we don't make a habit of infinitely studying things and giving
to much money to consultants. We already know much of what needs to be done.
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8. Too expensive.
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9. Consider parking meters/tickets as a funding source.
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10. Do NOT fund with regressive taxes and fees.
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11. Depends on cost and time.
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12. Not sure. "Vision" seems unrealistic retro based on political pressure from
"progressives" and globalists.
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13. Reduce senior fares/dial-a-ride/expand location destinations.
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14. I would prefer that the city think bigger and longer term and put my support behind
T1-G as a result
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15. Too expensive.
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T1–G: EXPANDED AND ENHANCED LONG-TERM VISIONS
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Percent
Respons
Count
Support
50.0%
25
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
12.0%
6
Neutral
10.0%
5
Do not support
24.0%
12
Other (please explain)
4.0%
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1. Support the Transfort Strategic plan but no further road widening. Plan for a transit
future.
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3. Still trying to get a handle on what this means
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4. Expanded and enhanced may be too expensive to implement in this economy.
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5. I need to study this more.
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6. Tough in a fiscally constrained environment.
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7. Will result in to much studying (and associated costs) and not enough doing.
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8. Keep the focus tighter.
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9. See T-1F
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10. Go big or go home! Let's not limit ourselves to the existing vision, but keep open to
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11. Too expensive.
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Do you agree with the policy direction proposed in T2-A: Increase Transportation Investments to Achiev
Goals?
Response
Percent
Respons
Count
Support
63.3%
31
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
22.4%
11
Neutral
2.0%
1
Do not support
12.2%
6
Other (please explain)
0.0%
0
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1.
especially if this helps alternative modes
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2.
If Transit is funded and roads are maintained, period. No road expansion.
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3.
Relying on existing funding mechanisms means failing to adapt our transportation
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system to the future challenges posed by higher energy costs and needing to reduce
carbon footprint.
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4.
Look at any and all methods to increase transportation funding.
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5.
We need to make do with the money we have.
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6.
Look at different option - sales tax, fee, property tax specifically designate to
maintenance.
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7.
but...
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8.
There isn't much other choice!
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9.
Too expensive.
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Sales Tax (existing source)
65.1%
28
Property Tax (existing source)
37.2%
16
Auto Ownership Taxes (existing
source)
46.5%
20
Bicycle Ownership Taxes (new
source)
51.2%
22
Impact Fees (existing source)
39.5%
17
Tax Increment Funding (new
source)
32.6%
14
Transportation Utility or
Maintenance Fees (new source)
60.5%
26
Pricing and User Fees (new
source)
37.2%
16
Local District Assessments (new
source)
34.9%
15
Negotiated Agreements with CSU
and/or Neighboring Communities
(existing and new sources)
58.1%
25
Other (please explain)
14.0%
6
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1. I think it will be necessary to develop a variety of source; maybe all possible
sources. There is no single magic bullet, but a transportation utility fee (including
transit) will be very important.
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2. Bicycle Ownership Taxes (new source) - NO!
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3. Transportation utility for residential streets
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4. Should really consider the Rich Shannon proposal for a Transportation Utility Fee
for local and collector streets.
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5. Transportation funding needs to be dramatically revised/reformed from 19th & early Thu, Jul 8, 2010 2:55 PM
20th century assumptions and practices to 21st century realities of we the people,
local down to national!!!! Plenty of revenue, wasteful spending with no or little
leadership, management of stewardship decreasing rapidly beyond local & county.
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6. Explore all funding options.
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7. Convert major thouroughfares to toll roads. By passing cost of maintenence directly Tue, Jul 6, 2010 5:04 PM
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cost of owning and using a vehicle and encourage the use of alternative
transportation. I would prefer this to hiding the cost in a gas tax or some other
"invisable" fee.
8. Look at all alternatives.
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9. Transportation Utility or Maintenance Fees-residential streets only
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make sense to re-size.
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12. Transportation Utility or Maintenance Fees - AND part of this fee should be
designated for buld-out of transit system.
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13. Utility for residential only. Other-New sales tax.
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14. Have children pay when school is not in session and Saturdays Jr. and Sr. high
schools.
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15. Development impact fees. Do not build fancy new roads.
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16. Yes!! to Trasnportation Utility or Maintenance Fees. 10/10/10 on state and federal
taxes-10 flat tax/10 fair tax/10 tax deduction or credit with all revenues not for
productive constitutional purposes to local and county.
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10. Other-Transportation utility fee
Transportation utility for residential streets.
17. I need more information about the proposed new sources. I think it is important that Thu, Jul 1, 2010 9:33 PM
vehicle owners contribute significantly to road O&M expenses, but for mass transit
and trails there are other stakeholders that need to contribute. I think that's where
the property tax comes in.
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18. Residential Utility Fee
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19. As noted, I would support several of the named sources, IF it can be done
equitably. By equitable I mean that the people who use the roads the most should
pay the most. Is there any way the city could increase the gasoline tax, which
would get to this directly and could also reduce carbon emissions.
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T2-B: ACCEPT REDUCED SERVICES TO LIVE WITHIN EXISTING MEANS
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Respons
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Existing Means?
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
8.3%
4
Neutral
4.2%
2
Do not support
72.9%
35
Other (please explain)
2.1%
1
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1.
This would be disastrous. It would lock us into obsolete travel patterns and preclude
adapting to future challenges.
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2.
Do not reduce services. We must maintain our existing infrastructure and support
pavement management. We need to complete the Transit Plan and the Pedestrian
Plan.
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3.
Economically damaging
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4.
economically damaging!
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5.
If a transportation ws a funding priority with city-would not be constrained.
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6.
Need to cut other city services to maintain roads, could cut back on Trails/Bike
programs and cap expansion.
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7.
Thing could always be done better, but...
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8.
Legislation doesn't go to doctor's offices without 3-day notice and won't go without a
specific appointment.
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Percent
Respons
Count
Street Maintenance (e.g. snow
plowing, street sweeping)
35.3%
6
Street Resurfacing and Repairs
(e.g. potholes, rutted pavement)
11.8%
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Parking Services (e.g.
enforcement frequency, reduced
plan updates)
58.8%
10
Traffic Services (e.g. signal timing
improvements, restriping)
17.6%
3
Transportation Planning (e.g.
reduced plan updates, reduced
grant applications)
23.5%
4
Transit (e.g. reduced frequencies,
reduced dial-a-ride)
35.3%
6
Other (please explain)
5.9%
1
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1.
Some of these others could be reduced as long as safety is not severely
compromised as in restriping.
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2.
Consider parking meters.
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3.
See comment on T2-A
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4.
We cannot reduce any of these services!!
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5.
See T-1B & T2. Rather than "reduce", modify and reform.
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6.
Increase Dial-a-Ride to include all semies(?).
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Response
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T1-A: Service Reduction (Resizing)
6.7%
3
T1-B: Reshape Existing Streets
11.1%
5
T1-C: Enhanced Travel
Corridors/District Focus
15.6%
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T1-D: Vehicle Alternatives/Trails
17.8%
8
T1-E: System & Mobility
Management
13.3%
6
T1-F: Adopted Long Term Visions
26.7%
12
T1-G: Expanded/Enhanced Long
Term Visions
8.9%
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Response
Percent
Respons
Count
T1-A: Service Reduction (Resizing)
0.0%
0
T1-B: Reshape Existing Streets
22.7%
10
T1-C: Enhanced Travel
Corridors/District Focus
31.8%
14
T1-D: Vehicle Alternatives/Trails
15.9%
7
T1-E: System & Mobility
Management
2.3%
1
T1-F: Adopted Long Term Visions
18.2%
8
T1-G: Expanded/Enhanced Long
Term Visions
9.1%
4
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T1-A: Service Reduction (Resizing)
2.3%
1
T1-B: Reshape Existing Streets
20.9%
9
T1-C: Enhanced Travel
Corridors/District Focus
9.3%
4
T1-D: Vehicle Alternatives/Trails
9.3%
4
T1-E: System & Mobility
Management
18.6%
8
T1-F: Adopted Long Term Visions
9.3%
4
T1-G: Expanded/Enhanced Long
Term Visions
30.2%
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Response
Percent
Respons
Count
T2-A: Increase Transportation
Investments to Achieve Goals
79.5%
31
T2-B: Accept Reduced Services to
Live Within Existing Means
20.5%
8
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1.
We may need to live within existing means but should always be trying to increase
those means.
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2.
I think treating transportation as a utility is essential for the future. This would be a
transportation utility fee, that includes transit. The cost savings for the community as
a whole, relative to the costs of owning and operating automobiles, would be large.
High quality transit service could offset the need to own and operate so many
automobiles.
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3.
We need to look at all funding alternatives to support our transportation system.
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What other topics would you like to see addressed in the Transportation section of Plan Fort Collins, if it
is not addressed elsewhere? (1,000 characters maximum)
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1. Do whatever it takes to bust the railroad trust/monopoly and impose huge fees on
trains passing through and moving in Ft. Collins and apply all fees generated to road
maintenance!! Reuse/reform taxi-jitney laws, bus transportation laws and don't even
think about passenger rail, mono or bi!!! Start using sound innovative science for
energy decisions, carbon based, nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, bio fuels, etc. Stop the
cocooned feudalism, and loss of sovereignty to state, federal and international.
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2. Parking - efficiency
Ped bulbs
Downtown college Ave - intersection bulbs. 1-ways, U-turn, Oak St. Plaza
2-lane - Left turns
Traffic light tuning
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4. Again, focus on slowing people down and preventing them from running red lights,
drifting into bike lanes etc. Penalty for running a stop sign $500. Penalty for 5 mph
over $100, for 10 over $300. for 15 over $600. I see people doing 55 in town!!!!
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5. Good to see language about freight; transportation is about more than moving people;
it's also about moving materials and products; hard to do that on a bus or bike.
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6. Connect activity centers.
Bus transit, bicycles, peds, streets on connections of old/new activity centers.
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7. A strong transportation system is vital to our future economic opportunity.
Transportation has to be a funding priority.
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8. What about electric vehicle infrastructure.
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9. Bus Service
Raise senior pass $25 to$30 even at that its still the best deal in town.
Quit letting Pat Stryher hold you hostage.
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Busses
Traffic lights
Parking
Streets - configuration
3. I would like to see an integrated plan that includes infill redevelopment and regional
transportation.coordination.
I have yet to see anything resembling a regional transportation strategy.(e.g. RTD,
Light Rail, Fast Rail, Greely/Loveland Coordination. etc)
The report could strengthn the point that mobility impacts quality of life. People sitting
in traffic would not say it adds to their quality of life.
Do NOT impose a transportation maintenance fee on business-very conter-productive
to keeping/creating jobs and expanding the tax base.
10. More the train to eastern plains - FIXED RAIL
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Partnerships?
Response
Percent
Response
Count
Support
44.0%
11
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
56.0%
14
Neutral
0.0%
0
Do not support
0.0%
0
Other (please explain)
0.0%
0
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1. As in most of this, you do not state what it will cost. Who wouldn't support more
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Regionally
Response
Count
Economic health/jobs
63.6% (14)
86.4% (19)
22
Environmental quality
33.3% (4)
75.0% (9)
12
Redevelopment, land use
58.3% (7)
41.7% (5)
12
Public safety
69.2% (9)
30.8% (4)
13
Health and human services
41.7% (5)
58.3% (7)
12
Culture and recreation
75.0% (9)
33.3% (4)
12
Education/future leadership
57.1% (8)
64.3% (9)
14
Transportation
47.6% (10)
100.0% (21)
21
Youth, child care
91.7% (11)
25.0% (3)
12
Seniors, aging population
76.9% (10)
30.8% (4)
13
Other (Please Explain)
50.0% (1)
50.0% (1)
2
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1. National? Global?
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2. City government leadership in a new domestic violence council is needed to 1) bring
more players to the table to create in FC a zero-tolerance-to-DVe city: 2) encourage
partnerships in mutually beneficial grant writing; & 3) reduce duplication of services &
encourage dovetailing of services.
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(check all that apply):
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Count
Higher education (e.g., CSU,
FRCC, etc.)
73.9%
17
K-12 education (e.g., PSD, TVSD,
etc.)
73.9%
17
Businesses
73.9%
17
Neighborhoods
47.8%
11
Larimer County, neighboring
towns and cities
60.9%
14
Local government and service
partners (e.g., Poudre Fire
Authority, Fort Collins Housing
Authority)
78.3%
18
Non-profit organizations and
agencies
39.1%
9
Residents
39.1%
9
State and federal governments,
agencies
8.7%
2
Other (Please Explain)
4.3%
1
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1. Most of these are not a city function.
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Do you agree with the policy direction proposed in HI2-A: Efficient, Representative Government?
Response
Percent
Response
Count
Support
20.8%
5
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
70.8%
17
Neutral
8.3%
2
Do not support
0.0%
0
Other (please explain)
0.0%
0
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1. Should consider City Council position for folks outside of City limits but inside GMA.
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2. And we want a chicken in every pot and a car in every Christmas stocking. Does
anyone really want less efficient government?
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3. • Change charter to allow for more Council Members at Large (mayor and 2 at large, Mon, Jul 12, 2010 11:15 AM
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4. Can we increase the configuration/membership on city council to 4 districts, 2 atlarge, and the mayor?
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5. Would like to expand city council and see more council members at large. Also have Sat, Jul 10, 2010 7:07 AM
the mayor's term be 4 years like council members.
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6. change charter to allow for more council members at large (mayor, 2 at large, 4
districts)
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7. Need to focus on new & excluded residents.
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8. Change the charter re: how we elect council - 3 at-large (mayor & 2 at-large) 4
districts.
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9. At large rep - 2 councilmembers @ large, 1 mayor, 4 districts.
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Percent
Response
Count
Support
33.3%
8
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
58.3%
14
Neutral
8.3%
2
Do not support
0.0%
0
Other (please explain)
0.0%
0
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1. Does government really need to do this?
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2. provide wireless internet in all public buildings and transit services. Transit would
allow us to do work while on the bus.
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3. City staff should join nonprofit BOD's; non-profit staff should join city committees.
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Face-to-face meetings
0.0% (0)
68.8% (11)
31.3% (5)
16
Website/Internet
0.0% (0)
66.7% (10)
33.3% (5)
15
Channel 14/TV
6.7% (1)
66.7% (10)
26.7% (4)
15
Mobile apps/text message
7.7% (1)
61.5% (8)
30.8% (4)
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RSS feed (subscriptions)
18.2% (2)
54.5% (6)
27.3% (3)
11
Language translation
8.3% (1)
41.7% (5)
50.0% (6)
12
Other (please explain)
0.0% (0)
0.0% (0)
100.0% (1)
1
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1. Run some tests. Do what works best.
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2. develop more public service announcements on channel 14. messages about how to Thu, Jul 8, 2010 4:54 PM
be a courteous community member. How to be polite with pedestrians in cross walks
and when to give right of way to bicyclists. Show a highlight of trying the bus system
out and follow someone to work.
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Support
23.8%
5
Leaning toward supporting (but
needs refinement)
66.7%
14
Neutral
9.5%
2
Do not support
0.0%
0
Other (please explain)
0.0%
0
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5
1. Depends on cost
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2. What about those already providing internet service?
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3. yes. provide wireless on buses and in public parks and buildings.
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4. Need to make sure this does not impact those local companies providing internet
services.
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5. Impact on current service providers?
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Fort Collins, if it is not addressed elsewhere? (1,000 characters maximum)
1. Transportation networks are the key. I rode my bike yesterday on LaPorte between
Overland and Loomis....oh my, what a mess. When folks have disposable income
they support the arts....therefore the economy is key. Don't get in the business of
others....e.g. jobs development...partner with the workforce center. Don't mandate
everything....most of the time government should get out of the way. too bad you
didn't ask about police/fire. It might help you to understand the feelings of those who
participated and your probably 1% sales tax increase. When you proposed these
items that sound like we are enlightened stewards of our lands, community, farmers,
stormwater, green street run off.....can you provide a cost/benefit analysis? Other
wise they sound like higher ed rhetoric without substance.
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