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HomeMy WebLinkAbout962320.tiff ORDINANCE NO. 147-J IN THE MATTER OF THE REPEAL AND RE-ENACTMENT OF CERTAIN PORTIONS OF ORDINANCE NO. 147, WELD COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ORDINANCE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF WELD, STATE OF COLORADO: WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Weld, State of Colorado, pursuant to Colorado statute and the Weld County Home Rule Charter, is vested with the authority of administering the affairs of Weld County, Colorado, and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners has the power and authority under the Weld County Home Rule Charter and Article 28 of Title 30, CRS, to adopt planning goals and policies for the unincorporated areas of the County of Weld, and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado, has previously adopted Ordinance No. 147, Weld County Comprehensive Plan, establishing a comprehensive revision of the planning goals and policies for the unincorporated areas of the County of Weld and has adopted amendments in Ordinance No. 147-A, through 147-I, and WHEREAS, the Weld County Planning Commission has recommended revisions to the Comprehensive Plan, and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County hereby finds and determines that there is a need for revision to certain portions of the Comprehensive Plan for the County of Weld, and that this Ordinance is for the benefit of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of Weld County. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Weld, State of Colorado, that the Weld County Comprehensive Plan be, and hereby is, amended as follows: 1. Change the word "conceptual" to "structural" throughout section three. 2. Correct the wording of the heading, as appropriate, for each page. 3. Replace 1-25 Mixed Use Development Area Map #2 (page 3-12) with 1-25 Mixed Use Development Area Comprehensive Plan Map 2, Structural Land Use Map (page 3-12.1). 4. Add new Table #5, Land Use Plan Distribution, and change existing Table#5, County Road System, to Table #6. 5. Change the text of pages 3-10 through 3.15.1 to read as follows: 962320 ORD147J MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT PUD.Policy 4.5 Development in the MUD area requires an All new development should comply with the extensive system of services and facilities in order Transportation Section of this Plan. Access to to maintain a quality working and living properties should preserve the existing or environment. It also requires careful future function of roads and highways consideration of surrounding land uses and affected by the proposed development. All affected municipal and county comprehensive development circulation systems should be designed so that it does not disrupt highway plans in order to promote desirable land uses travel. Traffic to be generated by the while protecting natural areas and water quality. proposed development must conform to the recommendations of the Weld County Public Historically, the lack of an adequate sanitation Works Department and the Colorado sewer system was a deterrent for development in Department of Transportation.Dedication and the area because the individual sewer systems improvement of roads and frontage roads may operating were not available for purposes of be required as a condition of development. expansion,and they had poor performance records PUD.Goal 5 according to the Colorado Department of Health. All new planned unit development should Furthermore, based on soil types and ground water it is possible that the numerous septic tank pay its own way. and leach field systems have contributed to the THE I-25 MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT ground water degradation and potential pollution AREA AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT in this area. However,with the intervention of the NODES St. Vrain Sanitation System, a totally supported sanitation system now allows a high quantity of growth to exist and expand. The presence of an interstate and state highway system and the external growth pressures from the An Urban Development Node is defined as: Longmont Metropolitan Area have created an interest in land speculation, development, and 1. A site location of concentrated urban population growth in the Mixed Use Development development located along or adjacent to the (MUD) area. Interest in the area has already led intersection of two or more roads in the state to the creation of facilities and utilities which attract development. The infrastructure in the highway system, or; area exists at varying stages of development, 2. An Urban Development Node is a major service capacity, and efficiency. concentration of development that requires appropriate infrastructure, well designed and The MUD provides a unique and challenging managed road access,and high visibility. The opportunity for the establishment of an on-going boundaries of these areas are identified as planning process in an area which is experiencing being located within a 1/4-mile radius of two increased growth and development. This district is intended to be an area which will accommodate or more roads in the state highway system. most The development standards in these areas are of the development which may occur as a based upon the impacts which urban result of the planned infrastructure and services development will have on the landfo existing and developing in the area. The area use allows residential, commercial, industrial, and requiring the application of urban use standards which are located in the Weld institutional uses to occur after they have beenCounty reviewed and approved according to the Planned Nodes are delineated on the Zoning Ordinance. The Urban Unit Development (PUD) application process. Development The Urban Growth Boundaries Map located in the Planned Unit Development process is an approach which promotes freedom, flexibility, back cover of this plan. and creativity. The increased flexibility allows MUD Structural Land Use Plan the landowner to work with site constraints and land-use compatibility problems with abutting The MUD Structural Land Use Plan is intended to properties. provide a foundation to enable the County and its 3-10 MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT citizens to make appropriate decisions regarding appropriate land use classifications, and the future development. Conservation of natural transportation needs of the region. The Structural resources, development of quality communities, Land Use Plan presents the opportunity to provision for regional services and employment intermix land use with established zoning opportunities, and maintaining fiscal integrity are standards in order to minimize the externalities of the key factors driving this plan. This will ensure the uses. The principles of this Plan are as follows: that development is planned in advance, rather than left to chance. The land uses delineated in Land Use Principles the Structural Land Use Map #2 promote appropriate levels of facilities and services for the A. Employment Center Development. The entire MUD area. Structural Land Use Plan provides a unique opportunity to create a major center of new It is important to remember that it is the employment in the area. The creation of the coherence of community structure and the quality employment center is located and oriented of the built and natural environment that will toward the network of regional and national roadways serving the area. This center needs determine whether growth in the MUD area will to be carefully planned to ensure that it will represent a positive act of building a community take advantage of the many attributes and or the loss of identity and diminished character of opportunities in the area, without detracting the region. The proposed Structural Land Use from the overall image and vital linkages Plan is intended to be a blueprint for the region's throughout the MUD. future. B. Interconnection of Community. Liveable The Structural Land Use Plan shows a proposed neighborhoods are critical factors in the configuration for land uses and street systems, as future quality of life in the area. well as suggested sites for community facilities. Interconnectivity of community nodes and The Plan represents maximum "build-out"of the activity centers will aid in the viability of the region which, depending on the rate of growth in area. Alternative means of transportation and the area, may take 25-50 years to achieve. As a opportunities for those who seek to walk or result,the Plan will need to change and respond in ride their bicycles should be increased, the future as the development patterns, resources, providing safe and pleasant pathways to and needs of society change. interconnect neighborhoods with community facilities and employment centers. New There are a number of principles and themes upon residential growth should be configured as which the Plan is based. As the region develops, neighborhoods, not isolated enclaves. The these principles can serve as planning goals and location of neighborhood centers in policies today and into the next century. The residentially designated areas is intended to principles utilized in this Plan include the overall provide community services within walkable development of the MUD area, the major destinations for the residents within the MUD transportation network,the linking of community area. nodes, and the consistency of land use and zoning standards. C. Consistent Land Use Standards. The Structural Land Use Plan outlines standards Principles for Community Structure and which are intended to shape and enhance Growth communities within the MUD area. These standards also are intended to support and The Structural Land Use Plan for the MUD area implement the land use and development has evolved out of extensive discussion and policies in the Weld County Comprehensive analysis. County officials have tackled the Plan, Zoning and Subdivision Ordinances, difficult questions of how to grow,where to grow, and the Planned Unit Development and how growth can either benefit or detract from Ordinance. In all cases, these Ordinances the area's quality of life. Addressing these should be consulted for clarification of questions has required balancing complex and specific requirements. often conflicting issues. What has emerged is a set of principles about the stability of the area's D. Appropriate Zoning Mixture. The economic base, the structure of the community, Structural Land Use Plan provides a mixture 3-11 MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT of conceptual land use categories throughout parks, and civic facilities including recreation the MUD area. These categories are grouped centers, Iibraries, and senior centers. by the intensity of the land use, with the Neighborhood Centers are intended to be majority of the high intensity uses being pedestrian-oriented with connections to the clustered within the vicinity of 1-25 and SH immediate neighborhoods through local streets 119. In contrast, lands with limiting site and trail systems. Residential development factors such as floodplain and wildlife habitat, correlate with the lowest intensity land uses. immediately surrounding the Neighborhood Center is encouraged to be higher in density than E. Planned Transportation Network. The developments farther away. major roadway corridors, including I-25, SH 119, SH 66, and WCR 1, are the primary Retail services in a Neighborhood Center roadway structures for the MUD area. They typically include low intensity businesses that play an important role in the function and provide for the sale of convenience goods(foods, image not only of the MUD area, but for drugs, and miscellaneous items) and personal Weld County as well. For this reason, special attention must be given to access controls and services (laundry and dry cleaning, barber or design treatment to ensure that these beauty shops, shoe repairing, etc.) roadways will function well over time and that visual quality of the major highway Residential-Mixed Intensity Use: Residential corridors will be improved and enhanced. neighborhoods range from high density apartment complex developments and mobile home parks to Structural Land Use Map low density estate developments. Residential neighborhoods should also include community Land use components are delineated on Map 2, amenities such as trail systems, recreation Structural Land Use Map. These elements are opportunities, and activity centers that are described as follows: accessible via walkable streets, trails or greenways. Employment Center-High Intensity Use: An Employment Center is a large parcel of land Limiting Site Factors - Lowest Intensity Use: designated primarily for employee-based Land with Limiting Site Factors contains certain enterprises with relatively high intensity impacts physical elements that obstruct or are hazardous associated with its use, such as traffic or noise. to certain types of development. Such conditions The Employment Centers within the Structural as floodplain, critical wildlife habitat areas, Land Use Plan are situated to provide aquifer recharge, and earthquake faults are employment opportunities throughout the front obstructions that limit or restrict development. range. Employment Centers require access to These areas are nevertheless usable for major thoroughfares, with visibility from the agricultural production,recreational activities and roadway being highly desirable. parks,or other functions that cannot damage or be damaged by the constraining site factors. These Regional Commercial-Medium Intensity Use: areas can also enhance the character of the MUD Regional Commercial Centers are areas where area by providing corridors for trails and wildlife goods and services are provided to the traveling and for the protection of natural resources. public with limited impacts to the environment Land designated as having Limiting Site Factors and surrounding land. Activities in Regional Commercial Centers include, but are not limited on Structural Land Use Map 2, are primarily to, defined by the 100-year floodplain (as defined by service stations, drive-through restaurants, hotels/motels,and regional retail facilities. FEMA mapping)which comprises approximately 4,500 acres, or 38%, of the total designated area in the MUD area. The floodplain incorporates Neighborhood Center - Lower Intensity Use: other important natural features as well, including A Neighborhood Center is focused on the day-to- wildlife habitat, mature riparian forest, primary day living needs of the immediate neighborhood. drainageways, and sand and gravel resources. Its purpose is to serve as an anchor for Additional land containing Limiting Site Factors community-based activities that include low is shown along irrigation canals and ditches and intensity uses such as retail services, schools, adjacent to lakes. 3-12 N 'y I Thomas Loke W.C.R.V '� Mulligo �^- � —\ �' �� Res ( E• J11j o!• 1 O l 3 71 m 1 '.I IN �____ _ SH 66 _ I _ _- _ -.._ \ I` /,� € W.C.R. 430 I t sI f1 Re �� jr. N . ondborn (3 i RS. �v .T yr . I R68W R67W 1 ' R \ f I R69W x `L„,�"wa,r \ 1 `'`,..,� y- 0 k4wi A gPh tzz „.,, x ., 8 r!et"-Vy r7N�.. 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M20 aLegend o 1500 3000 Feet Mir • I-25 MUD Area Boundary 1 "tI Limiting Site Factors-Lowest Intensity N Town/City Annexations — County Boundary Employment Center-High Intensity Regional Park Existing Road Regional Commercial Medium Intensity `Cp\ Community Park ---- Proposed Road {npp /�� Neighborhood Center-Lower Intensity r Nei hborhood Park Regional Trail System 04 W \P 9 Other Community Trail Residential-Mixed Intensity Cr Transit Center —-— Section Line 1-25 Mixed Use Development Area Comprehensive Plan Map 2 Structural Land Use Map Prepared by Balloffet 8 Associates and EDAW Inc. Updated by Weld County Planning Dept.-S.J V August 20,1996 MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT Transportation Systems transportation. These centers are most effective where high activity levels, limited parking, and The Plan suggests a hierarchy of transportation quality pedestrian access are found. Transit system development that responds to the intensity Centers could include park-and-ride lots and of development proposed on a local and regional future transit systems such as rail. level. Table 5 provides approximate acreage for each of Transit Centers the land uses and maximum density statistics that could occur at full build-out of the MUD area. Transit Centers are conceptually placed on the Structural Land Use Plan to promote public TABLE 5: LAND USE PLAN DISTRIBUTION % TOTAL LAND USE/INTENSITY ACRES AREA REMARKS Employment Center- 27 million sq. ft. of floor High Intensity 2,700 22% space Regional Commercial - Medium Intensity 200 2% 2 million sq. ft. of floor space Neighborhood Center- Low Intensity 80 1% 800,000 sq. ft. of floor space Residential - Mixed Maximum population: 30,000 Intensity 4,500 37% people and approximately 13,500 dwelling units. Limiting Site Factors - All areas delineated are within Lowest Intensity 4,630 38% the 100-year floodplain or have elements that obstruct or are hazardous to certain types of development. TOTAL 12,110 100% Source: Balloffet and Associates,Inc. Assumptions: • Residential densities were calculated using an average of four dwelling units per acre for all development throughout the MUD area. It was assumed that 25 percent of the gross land area in residential areas would account for roadways,neighborhood parks,and various residential amenities. • Employment Center calculations are based on an average of 15,000 square feet of floor area per acre. • Regional Commercial calculations are based on an average of 10,000 square feet of floor area per acre. 3-13 MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT MUD.Goal 1 sewage disposal facilities provided by the To plan and to manage growth within the appropriate sanitation districts. All Planned I-25 Mixed Use Development area and Unit Development water supply systems Urban Development Nodes so as to balance should be provided by a rural water district, relevant fiscal, environmental, aesthetic, company, association, or municipality. and economic components of the area. MUD.Goal 4 MUD.Policy 1 To maintain and improve the existing An I-25 Mixed Use Development area and natural state of the environment. Urban Development Nodes should be established and delineated on the Weld MUD.Policy 4 County Conceptual Land-Use Map. Density in the Mixed Use Development area will be governed by a Bulk Floor Area MUD.Goal 2 Standard which correlates buildable lot sizes To assure a well-integrated, balanced with open space allocations. transportation system which meets the public need with maximum efficiency, MUD.Goal 5 comfort,safety,and economy. The coordination of other municipal, county, regional,and state growth policies MUD.Policy 2 and programs which include this area All proposals for commercial, industrial, and should be evaluated in order to minimize discrepancies, promote a better residential development within the I-25 understanding of growth dynamics in the Mixed Use Development area and Urban area, avoid duplication of services, and Development Node overlay district should provide economies of scale. use the Planned Unit Development (PUD) application process and regulations. The MUD.Policy 5 Planned Unit Development process will allow New development should demonstrate developers flexibility and variety needed to compatibility with existing surrounding land offer a range of products, services, and uses. use in terms of general use, building height, It will also give the developer an opportunity scale, density,traffic, dust, and noise. to explain the development plans to MUD.Goal 6 surrounding land owners and the County so To assure that new development occurs in that important information about land use such a manner as to maintain an attractive compatibility and services, facilities, or working and living environment. utilities needed to serve the proposal are determined to be adequate. MUD.Policy 6 New developments should be encouraged to MUD.Goal 3 use innovative siting and design techniques to To provide efficient and cost-effective enhance prime visual features such as the delivery of adequate public facilities and Front Range, the St. Vrain River, and other services which assure the health, safety, natural drainage ways. and general welfare of the present and future residents of Weld County and the MUD.Policy 6.1 area. New commercial development should be characterized by quality architectural design. MUD.Policy 2 Design features shall include landscaping New development should avoid adverse plans for the entire development,efficient on- impacts to surface and ground water quality site traffic circulation plans with a minimal and should implement techniques to conserve number of access points to state and county such resources. All planned unit roads, low profile advertising signs, and developments within the Mixed Use sensitive facade treatment. Development area shall use the sanitary 3-14 MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT MUD.Policy 6.2 MUD.Policy 6.8 New industrial development should be Existing County and State sign regulations designed to compliment the natural should be strictly enforced within the I-25 environment and exhibit a "campus-like" Mixed Use Development planning area, atmosphere. particularly off-premise signs along interstate and state highways. MUD.Policy 6.3 Landscaping requirements should be MUD.Policy 6.9 determined for the perimeter of the All new development should comply with the development by reviewing the density of the public facilities and service section of this proposed land-use development and plan. New development that results in comparing it to the surrounding land uses. excessive public cost while producing For example, denser planting should be insufficient public revenues should be required between a residential use and an discouraged unless such development industrial use than between a residential and provides adequate guarantee that public small office use. In the case of extreme facilities and services are effectively installed, disparity between adjacent land uses, operated, and maintained. structured buffers including distance, walls, or berms may be required. MUD.Policy 6.10 If it is determined that public facility or MUD.Policy 6.4 service improvements or maintenance are The clustering concept of residential units required for or caused by the development, should be encouraged to reduce development the developer will be required to pay for the and maintenance costs, preserve natural cost of the public facility and service features, and maximize open space. improvement and maintenance. The methodology for compensation should be MUD.Polic 6.5 determined using the land-use application icy review process. The developer should submit New junkyards, salvage yards, landfills, and the following: uses with open storage areas should be encouraged to locate in areas where they can a. Information which accurately identifies be visually screened and can conform to all users of the infrastructure health and safety regulations. Existing improvements and maintenance; salvage yards and uses with open storage areas are encouraged to visually screen or to b. A proposal which equitably distributes relocate to more compatible areas. The intent the costs of infrastructure improvements is to locate uses with an unattractive and maintenance by user share; and appearance and the potential to create adverse land use impacts to areas where they will not c. A proposal that identifies the appropriate be a negative inducement for additional high time that infrastructure improvements and quality development. maintenance charges should be applied. MUD.Policy 6.6 This information will be reviewed by the New developments, including major public Board of County Commissioners in utility facilities, should mitigate adverse determining an equitable means of visual impacts caused by outside storage, distributing infrastructure costs among the building scale, disturbed native vegetation, County at large, direct users, and the and other such activities by screening and/or developer. buffering. MUD.Policy 6.7 MUD.Policy 6.11 All new development should comply with the Advertising signs should be compatible with Transportation Section of this plan. Access to the surrounding environment. Signs should properties shall preserve the existing and have a low profile and be shared when future function of roads and highways possible. affected by the proposed development. All 3-15 MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT development circulation systems should be MUD.Policy 6.20 designed so that they do not disrupt highway State Park and Recreation areas should not be travel. Traffic to be generated by the negatively influenced by new development. proposed development must conform to the recommendations of the Weld County Public MUD.Policy 6.21 Works Department and the Colorado The coordination of other municipal, county, Department of Transportation. Dedication and improvement of roads and frontage roads regional, and state growth policies and may be required as a condition of programs which include this area should be development. evaluated in order to minimize discrepancies, promote a better understanding of growth MUD.Policy 6.12 dynamics in the area, avoid duplication of All new development should comply with the services, and provide economies of scale. mineral resource section of this plan. This includes locations determined to contain MUD.Policy 6.22 commercial mineral deposits, mineral Each land-use application within the Mixed extraction operations, and reclamation plans. Use Development area should include a MUD.Policy 6.13 formal "Planning Area Profile". The profile Development should be restricted or required should contain public facilities and services to mitigate adverse effects in areas data, socioeconomic data, natural characterized by floodplains and geologic environmental resources, and visual and hazards. cultural resources. The purpose of this MUD.Policy 6.14 information would be to inform the user of the existing conditions, opportunities, and New development should preserve identified aquifer recharge areas. Where feasible, constraints within the I-25 Mixed Use drainageways should be maintained in their Development area. In addition, the natural state to ensure optimal recharge. information could also be used to update goals, policies, and programs in the future. MUD.Policy 6.15 New development should minimize impacts MUD.Goal 7 to air quality. All new development in the Mixed Use Development area should pay its own way. MUD.Policy 6.16 Fugitive dust should be controlled by PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SERVICES practices acceptable to the responsible government agency. The effective and efficient delivery of adequate public services is one of the primary purposes and MUD.Policy 6.17 benefits of effective land-use planning. Since the Natural vegetation should be retained onsite adoption of the Home Rule Charter,rising County to the greatest degree possible. expenditures have created substantial public interest in how to cut cost and increase efficiency MUD.Policy 6.18 of providing public services and facilities. Public Disturbed areas should be revegetated services are government services such as police immediately following construction. In order and fire protection, health and welfare services, to minimize wind and soil erosion,temporary and educational services and programs. Public stabilization measures shall be established on facilities are physical structures and infrastructure all such areas. such as schools, libraries, roads, maintenance facilities, water distribution systems, and sewage MUD.Policy 6.19 treatment facilities. Municipal governments, New developments should be encouraged to county governments, special districts, and private select native species for revegetation. 3-15.1 BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Board, that an applicant for a land use who has not yet been heard prior to the effective date of this Ordinance before the Planning Commission or, if applicable, the Department of Planning Services for matters not considered by the Planning Commission, will be considered under the terms of this Ordinance. However, any applicant whose land-use application is pending before the Board of County Commissioners on the effective date of this Ordinance will have the option of proceeding under the prior provisions of the Comprehensive Plan or requesting that the application be remanded to the Planning Commission or, if applicable, the Department of Planning Services, to repeat the review process using this Ordinance. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Board, if any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held or decided to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions hereof. The Board of County Commissioners hereby declares that it would have enacted this Ordinance in each and every section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, and phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or phrases might be declared to be unconstitutional or invalid. The above and foregoing Ordinance Number 147-J was, on motion duly made and seconded, adopted by the following vote on the 14th day of October, A.D., 1996. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WELD COUNTY, COLORADO ATTEST: Barbara J. Kirkmeyer, Chair Weld County Clerk to the Board George E. Baxter, Pro-Tem BY: Deputy Clerk to the Board Dale K. Hall APPROVED AS TO FORM: Constance L. Harbert County Attorney W. H. Webster First Reading: September 16, 1996 Publication: September 19, 1996, in the North Weld Herald Second Reading: September 30, 1996 Publication: October 3, 1996, in the North Weld Herald Final Reading: October 14, 1996 Publication: October 17, 1996 Effective Date: October 22, 1996 961553 ORD147J Hello