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May 17, 1999
Board of Weld County Commissioners
915 10th Street
Greeley, CO 80632
RE: Del Camino Junction
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter is in reference to our Interim Planning Coordinating Agreement
(County Ordinance 195) and our recently adopted Intergovernmental
Agreement regarding Uniform Baseline Standards (County Ordinance
201). Extensive hours of effort and significant costs have been put into the
development of these documents by the Town of Firestone, Weld County,
and others, with the ultimate goal being the positive control of urbanization
in southwest Weld County. As you know, these Agreements have won
Smart Growth Awards from the Governor's Office for the two previous
years.
It has come to our attention that in spite of our objections at the Weld
County Planning Commission on May 5, 1999, the Board of County
Commissioners voted to approve the final subdivision and development
plan for "Del Camino Junction" which is located within the mutually agreed
Firestone Urban Growth Boundary. Moreover, the County apparently
permitted a 100-foot reduction in the minimum setback from 1-25. The
reduction in setback was in direct conflict to the County's adopted
Ordinance 201 and our Intergovernmental Agreement relative to minimum
Baseline Development Standards.
The Town of Firestone takes great objection to this action by the Board of
County Commissioners and can reach no other conclusion than that the
County is not interested in cooperative development agreements with the
Town of Firestone for this area. If the County really cared about the goals
and objectives of the two intergovernmental agreements between
Firestone and the County, it would not have proceeded in a manner so
clearly inconsistent with the goals and the spirit of the agreements.
It is regrettable that the County did not provide the Town with notice of the
date and time of the County Commissioners Hearing so that the Town
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could, as it did at Planning Commission, make a specific request to have
this development comply with our two IGAs. Specifically, the Town of
Firestone has been expending great effort to work with the County and the
other area communities to ensure that the type of development that
happened in Del Camino west of 1-25 does not happen in the Town of
Firestone Urban Growth Area east of 1-25. We thought that the County
concurred in this goal.
It appears that if the County Board of Commissioners does not reconsider
and correct its action of May 5th relative to the Del Camino Junction
approval, the Town of Firestone has two options:
• The first would be to file legal action to request that the Court overturn
the May 5 decision and enforce the Town's position against the
County relative to the agreements.
• The second would be to provide notice to the County and the other
participants in these agreements that the Town of Firestone is
withdrawing from participation in both agreements.
The Town of Firestone Board of Trustees does not believe it is appropriate
to require the citizens of the Town to comply with agreements with Weld
County when the County does not appear to be committed to similar
compliance for projects it reviews. Over the next few weeks the Town
Board will decide which of the above options would be in the best interest
of the citizens of Firestone. In the meantime, we would request that the
Commissioners reconsider their action and correct it, removing our
necessity to proceed with either option. We desire to move forward in the
positive spirit with the County with these IGAs, as recognized by the
Governor's office, but we certainly need the specific cooperation from Weld
County.
Sincerely,
Rick Patterson
Mayor
cc: Firestone Town Board
Don Sandoval, State of Colorado
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