Fort collins city council - anne nelsen

Fort Collins City Council - Anne Nelsen

District: 6 | Sworn in: January 20, 2026 (appointed)
Email: anelsen@fortcollins.gov | Phone: 970-817-8784

2026-05-16

• Appointment background: Nelsen was selected 5-1 from 15 applicants to fill the District 6 seat vacated when Emily Francis became Mayor. She is a Fort Collins architect and Housing Catalyst board member who has served on the Historic Preservation Commission. She will serve through January 2028.
  
• Key priorities: At her appointment, Nelsen identified housing affordability, the city's identity and growth pressures, and resiliency in the face of revenue shortfalls as the most important issues facing Fort Collins.
  
• Ad Hoc Committee on Affordable and Sustainable Growth: In April 2026, the City Council established this committee (running through end of 2027) to oversee a two-track work plan on housing and growth through Q4 2027. Nelsen is expected to participate given her background in housing and architecture.
  

Sources:
- Fort Collins City Council to Fill Vacant Seat After Election — North Forty News
- January city council recap — Rocky Mountain Collegian
- Fort Collins City Council sets priorities — Colorado Citizen Observers

2026-05-30

• May council actions: At the May 5 regular meeting, council unanimously approved a $378,057 mid-year Airport fund appropriation for six priority projects and voted to appropriate federal/state funds for the Taft Hill Corridor Improvements (Horsetooth to Brixton Road). At the May 19 regular meeting, council joined a regional "Summer Moves" active-transportation challenge. Council also declared May 24–30 Flood Awareness Week as the city's voluntary water shortage watch continues.
  
• Ad Hoc Committee on Affordable and Sustainable Growth: The committee established in April (running through end of 2027) continues its two-track work plan on housing and growth. Nelsen's architecture and Housing Catalyst background makes her a natural participant as the committee moves into its substantive work phase this summer.
  

Sources:
- Fort Collins City Council agendas and minutes — Fort Collins official
- News — City of Fort Collins

2026-06-01

• City Council regular meeting June 2: Council meets Tuesday, June 2 at 6:00 PM. As the District 6 councilmember, Nelsen will participate in her fifth regular meeting since being sworn in January 20. The Ad Hoc Committee on Affordable and Sustainable Growth (which Nelsen is expected to participate in given her housing background) continues its two-track work plan through end of 2027.
  

Sources:
- Council Meetings — City of Fort Collins
- Fort Collins City Council sets priorities — Colorado Citizen Observers

2026-06-05

• June 2 council meeting — attended and voted: Nelsen was one of only four members present (along with Mayor Francis, Mayor Pro Tem Pignataro, and Amy Hoeven; Conway, Fudge, and Potyondy absent). She voted with the majority on all items:
  
  • Flock license plate camera vote: postponed to June 16 — 17 residents showed up to oppose even after the item was pulled from the agenda
    
  • Resolution 2026-076 (business assistance incentives): passed 4-0
    
  • Summer meeting cancellations (July 7 and August 4): passed 4-0
    
  • Ordinance 058 (default judgment window 7→14 days): passed 4-0
    
• Flock vote coming June 16: This will be a high-visibility public showdown given the strong community turnout. Residents can attend the June 16 regular meeting or submit public comment. This directly affects District 6 — Fort Collins' license plate readers are deployed at six intersections and a vote to expand or restrict them will affect the entire city.
  

Sources:
- Fort Collins City Council Postpones Flock Vote, Updates Business Incentives — Strong Towns Fort Collins

2026-06-14

• Flock vote is THIS MONDAY (June 16, 6 PM, City Hall, 300 LaPorte Ave): The Flock license plate camera data-retention and data-sharing policy vote is 2 days away. The full 7-member council will be present — this was specifically why the June 2 vote was postponed (only 4 members attended then). Key questions the council will decide: the 30-day data retention window and whether Fort Collins police can share ALPR data with federal immigration authorities (Loveland has been documented sharing such data with immigration enforcement). Community opposition has been sustained and vocal — 17 residents showed up to the June 2 meeting just to oppose it even though the item had already been pulled from the agenda.
  
• Nelsen's position: At the June 2 meeting, Nelsen thanked residents for their advocacy and expressed she was looking forward to the full council discussion — suggesting she is taking the public input seriously. As the District 6 councilmember, this is her first major high-profile vote since her January appointment.
  
• How to weigh in: Attend the June 16 meeting (6 PM, 300 LaPorte Ave) or submit written public comment at fcgov.com/council.
  

Sources:
- Fort Collins leaders discuss future of Flock license plate readers after public pushback — KUNC
- Fort Collins City Council weighs police use of Flock cameras amid community scrutiny — Rocky Mountain Collegian

2026-06-17

• Flock vote held June 16 — result not yet confirmed: The full 7-member city council met last night (June 16, 6 PM, 300 LaPorte Ave) with the Flock license plate camera data-retention and data-sharing policy on the agenda. This was Nelsen's first major high-profile vote since her January appointment. As of June 17 morning, no news coverage has indexed a confirmed vote outcome. To see what happened: watch the meeting recording at FCTV Cable 14 or check the official meeting minutes at fortcollins-co.municodemeetings.com. Check back next run for confirmed result.
  

Sources:
- Council Meetings — City of Fort Collins
- FCTV Cable 14 — meeting recordings

2026-06-18

• Flock vote CONFIRMED — 6-1 to cancel contract and remove all cameras (June 16): The full council voted 6-1 on June 16 to immediately cancel Fort Collins' contract with Flock Safety and remove all 15 ALPR cameras citywide. Nelsen voted with the majority. She was quoted at the meeting: "When vulnerable people know their movements are logged by a publicly funded surveillance network, it has a real chilling effect on community participation." The lone "no" vote was District 1 Councilmember Chris Conway. The chambers erupted in applause after the vote.
  
  • Council directed staff to stop Flock data collection immediately
    
  • Initiate contract cancellation immediately
    
  • Remove all 15 cameras as expeditiously as possible
    
  • Not seek new surveillance technology bids until a citywide surveillance policy is established
    
• This was Nelsen's first major high-profile vote since her January 20 appointment — she came down clearly on the side of civil liberties and community trust over law enforcement surveillance capability.
  
• Next steps: The city will develop a comprehensive surveillance technology policy that must be finalized before any new ALPR or similar system can be deployed. No timeline set. Next regular council meeting: July 21 (July 7 was cancelled at the June 2 meeting). June 23 Work Session is the next scheduled event.
  

Sources:
- Flock cameras are out in Fort Collins, as council votes to end contract — AOL
- Fort Collins City Council votes to cancel Flock camera use, remove cameras — CBS Colorado
- Fort Collins City Council votes to remove Flock cameras — FOX31 Denver

2026-06-20

• Flock decision in regional context (KUNC, June 19): Fort Collins joins a growing trend: Denver discontinued its Flock contract earlier in 2026 and has already selected a replacement vendor; Boulder is currently evaluating its own Flock deployment. A state-level surveillance privacy bill failed this legislative session, opposed by Colorado's District Attorneys — which makes the citizen-led volunteer board approach Fort Collins adopted even more significant as a local alternative to statewide regulation. Councilmember Melanie Potyondy framed the policy reset: "A pause to make sure that if we do decide to move forward and retain this kind of technology, that we do it right."
  
• June 23 Work Session agenda still not posted: As of Friday June 20, the Municode portal does not list a June 23 meeting. Agendas normally post Thursday ~5 PM; Juneteenth (Thursday June 19) likely delayed it. The agenda may appear over the weekend. The next Regular Meeting (with votes) is July 21 — no July 7 meeting.
  

Sources:
- Fort Collins drops Flock surveillance, directs data collection to stop and cameras to be removed — KUNC

2026-06-23

• No work session tonight: The Municode portal never posted a June 23 meeting agenda. The expected 4th-Tuesday work session did not materialize. Next confirmed council meeting: July 21 Regular Meeting (6 PM) — sign up to speak by 5:30 PM day-of. Written comment: cityleaders@fcgov.com.
  

2026-06-24

• Council dark until mid-July: No meetings on the Municode calendar between June 16 and the July 21 Regular Meeting. July 7 was reportedly cancelled at the June 2 meeting — verify closer to date. Community listening sessions are happening tonight (Lagoon Concert Series, hosted by Fudge and Potyondy — not official proceedings).
  

2026-06-30

• Surveillance policy timeline established. Following the June 16 Flock vote (Nelsen voted yes, 6-1), the city is on a formal surveillance policy development schedule:
  
  • July 28 (tentative work session): First public council update on surveillance policy work
    
  • July–September: Community and stakeholder input
    
  • October: Draft policy updated with feedback
    
  • November: Council work session on revised draft
    
  • December: Council vote on final policy adoption
    No new surveillance technology can be acquired or deployed until the policy is finalized. This is a direct outcome of Nelsen's vote — she was the District 6 representative who supported the policy reset.
    
• Next meeting: July 21 Regular Meeting (6 PM). This is the first regular meeting with votes since June 16. To participate: sign up to speak online by 5:30 PM that day (link posts with agenda ~July 16); written comment: cityleaders@fcgov.com; watch live on Zoom or FCTV Channels 14 & 881. Agenda not yet posted.
  
• Housing affordability: The Ad Hoc Committee on Affordable and Sustainable Growth (April 2026–end of 2027) targets 7,000+ new housing units over the next decade. 58% of Fort Collins renters are currently cost-burdened. Nelsen's background in architecture and Housing Catalyst board service makes this a natural priority area.
  

Sources:
- After ending Flock contract, Fort Collins begins surveillance policy review — 9News
- City Council Ad Hoc Committee on Affordable and Sustainable Growth — ourcity.fcgov.com
- Fort Collins City Council Meetings — fortcollins.gov

2026-07-01

• July 7 cancellation confirmed; council dark through July 20. Checked the Municode portal directly: no Regular Meeting, Work Session, or special meeting is listed between today and July 21 — resolving the ambiguity flagged June 23 about whether July 7 was actually cancelled. It was (4-0 vote at the June 2 meeting, alongside August 4). The only meeting in the window is a July 23 Urban Renewal Authority Board meeting/work session, which Nelsen does not sit on. Next Regular Meeting with votes remains July 21, 6 PM; agenda expected to post ~July 16.
  

Sources:
- Fort Collins City Council Meetings — Municode portal

2026-07-02

• July 14 Work Session now on the calendar. Checked the Municode portal directly: a Work Session on Tuesday, July 14, 6 PM has appeared where none was listed on July 1 — filling in the previously "dark" stretch between now and the July 21 Regular Meeting. No agenda has posted yet (agendas typically post the Thursday before, so expect it ~July 9). Work sessions are discussion-only (no votes), but this is worth watching since it could be where an early surveillance-policy update lands ahead of the tentative July 28 session. July 21 Regular Meeting still not yet listed/posted — agenda still expected ~July 16.
  

Sources:
- Fort Collins City Council Meetings — Municode portal

2026-07-03

• No change. Rechecked the Municode portal: July 14 Work Session still has no agenda posted (expected ~July 9), and the July 21 Regular Meeting still isn't listed yet (expected ~July 16). Nothing else on the calendar in between besides the July 23 URA Board meeting, which Nelsen doesn't sit on.
  

Sources:
- Fort Collins City Council Meetings — Municode portal

2026-07-07

• New Special Meeting appeared on the calendar: Tuesday, July 14, 5:45 PM — immediately before that evening's 6 PM Work Session. No agenda or stated purpose posted yet; a cached PDF linked from the page turned out to be stale content from the January 14 special meeting (Nelsen's own appointment resolution), not informative about July's purpose. Special meetings are typically single-item (e.g., an appointment, contract action, or executive session). Worth rechecking when the agenda posts (~July 9, same as the Work Session).
  
• Everything else unchanged: July 14 Work Session itself still has no agenda; July 21 Regular Meeting still not posted (expected ~July 16); July 23 URA Board meeting/work session still no agenda.
  

Sources:
- Fort Collins City Council Meetings — Municode portal

2026-07-09

• July 14 Special Meeting and Work Session agendas STILL not posted — the "~July 9" expectation didn't materialize; checked the Municode portal listing pages directly and no HTML agenda exists yet for either. Recheck July 10-13.
  
• July 21 Regular Meeting now appears on the portal — earlier than the "~July 16" estimate — but no agenda content is linked yet.
  
• July 23 URA now shows two entries: a 4:30 PM Board meeting and a 5:30 PM Board work session (previously just one listing). No agendas posted for either.
  
• Council Finance Committee met today (a subcommittee, not full Council) and previewed items headed toward the fall 2027 budget cycle: Police Services plans to request $74.2M for 2027 (up $4.2M from 2026, mostly to sustain current staffing against rising labor/benefits/equipment costs); the photo radar/red-light camera program's 2025 revenue (~$2.85M) fell well short of the $5.2M budgeted after expansion, though it still cleared a ~$140K operating margin, prompting staff to revisit revenue assumptions; and the city is building its first consolidated citywide program/service inventory to replace the old "Budgeting for Outcomes" model. Nothing here was voted on — it's committee-level discussion, but worth tracking since police spending growth and camera-revenue shortfalls are the kind of items that draw public comment once they reach full Council.
  

Sources:
- Fort Collins City Council Meetings — Municode portal
- Fort Collins Report — City Notes: Week of July 6, 2026

2026-07-10

• July 14 Special Meeting (5:45 PM) agenda posted. Called by the Mayor July 6. Single item: Resolution 2026-091, authorizing the City Manager to sign a BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment) grant agreement worth $1.5M, previously appropriated via Ordinance 054, 2026. No general public comment at this meeting — the public may only comment on this discussion item.
  
• July 14 Work Session (6 PM) agenda posted. Two discussion items, no votes: (1) 2026-2027 Council Priority Update, and (2) 2027-2028 Budget Update — an early progress check ahead of the next biennial budget cycle.
  
• July 21 Regular Meeting — still no agenda posted. The meeting exists on the portal but has no agenda/packet linked yet; agendas here have historically posted only a few days out, so recheck closer to the date.
  
• July 23 URA Board (4:30 PM) + work session (5:30 PM) — still no agendas posted.
  

Sources:
- July 14 Special Meeting agenda — Municode
- July 14 Work Session agenda — Municode
- Fort Collins City Council Meetings — Municode portal

2026-07-17

• July 21 Regular Meeting agenda posted (6 PM, City Hall / Zoom). This is the first meeting carrying votes since June 16. It is an all-consent agenda — 32 items on the Consent Calendar and no separate Discussion/Action items. Everything passes in a single vote unless a councilmember (or the public) pulls an item off consent for debate. Items a District 6 resident may care about:
  
  • Item 3 / Ord. 070 — Southeast Community Center, $72.5M appropriation for construction (LEED Gold). Large capital commitment.
    
  • Item 23 / Ord. 098 — 314 North Howes St. conveyance for affordable housing. City conveys the property (current EcoThrift lease ends Sept 30) to Housing Catalyst at nominal cost. Note: Nelsen sits on the Housing Catalyst board — watch for a recusal/conflict disclosure.
    
  • Item 8 / Ord. 075 — $500K from reserves as earnest money to negotiate acquisition of a Midtown property for economic development.
    
  • Item 25 / Res. 2026-095 — One Water long-term water-rental policy, enabling rentals longer than the current one-year practice.
    
  • Item 22 / Ord. 097 — Cargill water-share exchange (11.5 Arthur Irrigation shares for water-supply credit).
    
  • Items 20A–G / Ords. 089–095 — criminal-code amendments aligning municipal penalties with recent Colorado Supreme Court rulings (People v. Camp, People v. Simons).
    
  • Item 24 / Ord. 099 — Rigden Farms "pig grazing" APU (up to 15 pigs to clear Kochia weed on 0.8 acre; P&Z approved 5-1). Quasi-judicial; hearing deemed closed unless pulled.
    
  • Proclamation: July 2026 declared Disability Pride Month (5 PM; 4 PM community reception).
    
  • No Flock/surveillance item — that policy work returns at the July 28 work session (see log).
    
• How to weigh in (hard deadline): To speak, sign up online by 5:30 PM on July 21 at fortcollins.gov/Government/City-Council/Council-Meetings. Written comment to cityleaders@fortcollins.gov (or City Manager's Office, 300 Laporte Ave). Attend in person, on Zoom (meeting ID 982-4141-6497, phone 720-928-9299, press *9 to speak), or watch FCTV Channels 14 & 881. General public comment is Section G; commenting on a consent item during general comment forfeits your slot during that item's discussion if pulled.
  
• July 23 URA Board (4:30 PM) + work session (5:30 PM) agendas now available on the portal.
  

Sources:
- July 21 Regular Meeting agenda (HTML) — Municode
- Fort Collins City Council Meetings — Municode portal

2026-07-18

(Backfill: two July 14 meetings that predate the last run.)

• July 14 Special Meeting — BEAD broadband grant authorized. Council passed Res. 2026-091, authorizing the City Manager to execute a $1.5M Broadband Equity, Access & Deployment (BEAD) grant agreement (the award was appropriated earlier in Ord. 054, 2026). Fast, no-public-comment special meeting called by the Mayor; a utilities/broadband item for the city's Connexion network.
  
• July 14 Work Session — budget cycle opens. Two discussion-only items previewing what's coming: a 2026–2027 Council Priority Update and a 2027–2028 Biennial Budget Update (work now underway on the next two-year budget). No votes. Expect the biennial budget to dominate Council's fall agenda — the point where taxes, utilities rates, and capital priorities (like the $72.5M SE Community Center) get set. Worth tracking for public-comment windows as budget drafts post.
  

Sources:
- July 14 Special Meeting agenda (BEAD, Res. 2026-091) — Municode
- July 14 Work Session agenda (priorities + 2027–28 budget) — Municode

2026-07-19

• July 21 Regular Meeting unchanged (2 days out). Re-checked the July 21 agenda: still 32 consent items, nothing pulled to discussion (Section N is an empty placeholder). The $72.5M SE Community Center (Ord. 070) and the 314 N. Howes → Housing Catalyst conveyance (Ord. 098) remain on consent. Sign-up to speak closes 5:30 PM Tuesday July 21.
  
• July 23 URA agendas now posted (they were unlinked last run). Council sits as the Urban Renewal Authority Board; these are the same seven members. Two sessions:
  
  • 4:30 PM URA Board meeting — two items carry required public hearings: Resolution No. 166 ($285K supplemental budget + redevelopment agreement for 1505 N. College Ave. façade/infrastructure/community-use improvements) and Resolution No. 167 ($50K supplemental budget, TIF-funded, for transit-oriented-development planning around the proposed Front Range Passenger Rail station). Also a property acquisition — authorization to execute a purchase/sale agreement for 1629 Blue Spruce Dr. with a $200K earnest-money appropriation and 120-day due diligence. All North College / URA-district focused, not District 6, but the passenger-rail TOD item is a citywide-interest planning step.
    
  • 5:30 PM URA Work Session (discussion only) — reviewing URA board-structure / operational-efficiency options and a master-planning update for the URA's 1636 N. College property (with Urban Land Conservancy + RVi).
    

Weigh in on the URA hearings (July 23, 4:30 PM): In person at City Council Chambers, 300 Laporte Ave. Public hearings on Res. 166 & 167; 3-minute limit per speaker. General public-participation period at the top of the meeting. Written comment via the City Clerk / cityleaders@fortcollins.gov.

Sources:
- July 21 Regular Meeting agenda (HTML) — Municode
- July 23 URA Board agenda (4:30 PM) — Municode
- July 23 URA Work Session agenda (5:30 PM) — Municode

2026-07-28

• Work Session (6 PM, CIC) — three discussion items, no votes (agenda amended 7/27). Held in the Council Information Center, 300 Laporte:
  
  1. Surveillance Technology Governance Policy — first update since the Flock cancellation. Staff sought Council feedback on a proposed framework to guide a comprehensive citywide surveillance-technology governance policy (how the city evaluates, approves, and monitors data-collecting tech). Discussion only; community/stakeholder input runs July–September, a revised draft in October, a November work session, and a December adoption vote.
     
  2. Real Estate Strategic Framework & Portfolio Assessment — overview of a proposed framework and decision-making approach for leveraging city-owned real estate.
     
  3. Tobacco Retail Licensing & Age-Restricted Products Program — a local licensing program for tobacco and age-restricted psychoactive products; scope and provisions.
     
• The July 21 Regular Meeting proceeded on the consent calendar as scheduled; no report surfaced of any item being pulled to discussion.
  

Sources:
- July 28 Work Session agenda (HTML) — Municode

2026-08-06

• Two Council meetings in the next ~2 weeks; agendas not yet posted.
  
  • Aug 11 (Tue), 6 PM — Work Session (discussion only). Agenda not posted as of this run — typically posts the Thursday before (~Aug 6–7).
    
  • Aug 18 (Tue), 6 PM — Regular Meeting (votes/ordinances + public comment). Agenda posts ~Aug 13.
    
• Watch for: the next surveillance-policy checkpoint, budget items (the 2027–28 biennial budget process is underway), and anything on housing/growth. Will pull both agendas once posted.
  

To weigh in at the Aug 18 Regular Meeting: sign up to speak online by 5:30 PM Tue Aug 18 at fortcollins.gov/Government/City-Council/Council-Meetings; written comment to cityleaders@fortcollins.gov. Zoom + FCTV Ch. 14 & 881.

Sources:
- Fort Collins City Council Meetings — Municode portal

2026-08-07

Aug 11 Work Session agenda posted. 6:00 PM, Council Information Center (CIC), 300 Laporte Ave. Discussion only — no votes, no formal public-comment period. Two items:

1. Downtown Parking Optimization Update — the substantive one. Staff present background on the downtown parking system, "identified concerns," and options moving forward, framed around a vibrant downtown, a customer-focused system, and financial sustainability. Rates and space counts are in the attached PDFs (Parking Services Agenda Item Summary; Presentation), not the HTML agenda. Where the program stands per the city's project page: six-day 8 AM–6 PM enforcement began March 23, 2026; increased fines and elimination of courtesy first-violation notices are pending approval for September 2026; paid on-street expansion (~800 spaces, $2/hr, 4-hour max, 10 AM–8 PM six days) has slipped to a 2027 soft launch, kiosks Nov 2026–Q1 2027, ~$1.7M to implement against ~$2.5M/yr projected revenue. Merchants have been split on it since April.
   
2. Community Report: Innosphere and NSF ASCEND Engine in Colorado & Wyoming — annual update, plus ways for the city to engage NSF ASCEND toward Our Climate Future goals.
   

• Aug 18 Regular Meeting (6 PM) — votes + public comment. Agenda not posted yet; expected ~Aug 13.
  
• Transfort redesign takes effect Aug 17 — new grid-based network, simpler routes, more frequency on high-demand corridors, timed to the CSU/PSD start. Routes 14 and 18 wait until 2027. Dial-A-Ride Sunday service ends, Dial-A-Taxi vouchers drop to $15, service area expands; existing clients outside the new boundary keep door-to-door service.
  

To weigh in on downtown parking: the work session has no public-comment slot, but the item's comment tool and Q&A are open at ourcity.fcgov.com/downtown-parking-management-updates, and written comment to Council goes to cityleaders@fortcollins.gov any time. The September fine increase is the near-term decision point.

Aug 18 Regular Meeting: sign up to speak online by 5:30 PM Tue Aug 18 at fortcollins.gov/Government/City-Council/Council-Meetings; written comment to cityleaders@fortcollins.gov. Zoom + FCTV Ch. 14 & 881. Interpretation requests by noon the day before (970.221.6515).

Sources:
- Aug 11, 2026 Work Session agenda (HTML) — Municode
- Aug 11, 2026 Work Session full packet (PDF)
- Downtown Parking Management Updates — ourcity.fcgov.com
- Proposed paid parking in Old Town Fort Collins divides merchants, city — Denver Gazette
- Transfort announces finalized Bus System Optimization Plan — fortcollins.gov

2026-08-11

• Tonight's work session confirmed unchanged. 6:00 PM, Council Information Center, 300 Laporte Ave. Two discussion items: Community Report on Innosphere and the NSF ASCEND Engine in Colorado & Wyoming, and the Downtown Parking Optimization Update. No votes, no public-comment period on the agenda.
  
• Aug 18 regular-meeting agenda still not posted. Municode carries the 08/18/2026 6:00 PM City Council Regular Meeting row, but the detail page has no agenda, no packet, no items. Agendas post Thursdays ~5 PM, so expect it Aug 13. Speaker sign-up opens with the agenda and closes 5:30 PM Tue Aug 18.
  

Sources:
- Aug 11 Work Session agenda — Municode HTML
- Aug 18 Regular Meeting detail page — Municode
- Council Meetings — participation and sign-up

2026-08-12

• Downtown parking: staff pulled back to a single pilot lot. At last night's work session, staff presented a small-scale paid parking pilot at the Oak & Remington lot instead of the citywide on-street conversion. Any broader expansion moves to 2027 or 2028. The shift follows the July 21 regular meeting, where Old Town merchants and residents turned out against the metered-parking plan. Cost estimate for a full paid system is ~$1.3M against ~$2.5M/yr projected revenue.
  
• What's unchanged: six-day 8 AM–6 PM enforcement (since March 23), and the September fine increases + end of courtesy first-violation notices still pending approval. That September package is the next thing that actually gets voted on — it hasn't appeared on a regular-meeting agenda yet.
  
• Nothing binding happened last night — work sessions take no votes and no public comment. Comment channels are the project page (ourcity.fcgov.com/downtown-parking-management-updates) and cityleaders@fortcollins.gov.
  
• Aug 18 regular-meeting agenda still not posted as of today. Municode's detail page carries the meeting row with no agenda, packet, or items. Expected Thursday Aug 13 ~5 PM; speaker sign-up closes 5:30 PM Tue Aug 18.
  

Sources:
- Fueled by feedback, Fort Collins eyes parking options — BizWest (Aug 11)
- Fort Collins weighs paid downtown parking for 2028 — 9News
- Downtown Parking Management Updates — ourcity.fcgov.com
- Aug 18 Regular Meeting detail page — Municode

2026-08-14

Aug 18 regular-meeting agenda posted. 25 consent items, one discussion item, one staff report. Proclamations at 5:00 PM, meeting at 6:00 PM.

The one item planned for discussion:
- #26 — Second Reading of Ordinance No. 101, 2026, Appropriating Accessory Dwelling Unit Grant Program Funds. Every other second reading sits on consent; this one was moved off, which means it drew disagreement at first reading. Traces back to Resolution 2026-062 (April 21), authorizing a DOLA ADU Grant application for a pre-approved ADU design program and fee waivers. Housing item, in Nelsen's lane.

Consent items worth watching (no discussion unless a councilmember pulls them):
- #17 — Ord. 104: transfer of previously appropriated federal ARPA funds for Land Bank Program expansion — buys a comparable parcel at a different location than originally planned, plus pre-development costs. Affordable housing land banking; the location change is the part with no public explanation on the agenda face.
- #23 — Linden Street Interim Parking Project: Resolution 2026-103 (IGA with the Downtown Development Authority) + Ord. 110 appropriating $112,438 in DDA grant funds for improvements on Linden between the Poudre River and Buckingham. Downtown parking again, but capital work — not the September fine-increase package, which still hasn't surfaced for a vote.
- #6 — Ord. 086: $51,450 Homeland Security Grant from CDPS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Buys a digital fire extinguisher training system for CERT and cybersecurity training for Poudre Fire Authority. Not surveillance tech.
- #22 — Ord. 109: amending ethics rules on councilmember contact reporting, and #24 — Resolution 2026-104: Code of Conduct policy amendments. Council governing itself; buried on consent.
- #9 — seven ordinances rewriting municipal court sentencing penalties and criminal code chapters 1, 4, 9, 17, 20-42, 23-193/203, and the Traffic Code. Broad criminal-code package moving on consent at second reading.
- #12 — Ord. 098: conveyance of city property at 314 North Howes Street.
- #18 — Ord. 105: supplemental appropriation for the Vine and Timberline rail grade separation.
- #16 — Ord. 103: appropriating remaining Community Capital Improvement Program reserves.

Also: Staff Report on the Rental Housing Program Update (the registration program council approved 6-1). Two executive sessions at the end — economic development incentive negotiations, and water storage projects. Proclamation declaring Aug 26 Women's Equality Day.

How to participate: speaker sign-up closes 5:30 PM Tue Aug 18 at fortcollins.gov/Government/City-Council/Council-Meetings. Written comment to cityleaders@fortcollins.gov anytime. Item G is general public comment on any topic. Zoom and FCTV Channels 14 & 881.

Next: Work Session Aug 25, 6 PM — no agenda posted yet.

Sources:
- Aug 18 Regular Meeting agenda — Municode HTML
- Aug 18 Regular Meeting packet — Municode HTML
- Aug 18 Regular Meeting detail page — Municode
- Council Meetings — participation and sign-up

2026-08-15

• New: tobacco and psychoactive-product retail licensing in development. Council and staff are drafting a local ordinance plus a licensing program for retailers selling tobacco and age-restricted psychoactive products — intoxicating hemp, kratom, synthetic cannabinoids, psilocybin lookalikes — aimed at minors' access through smoke shops, gas stations, drug stores, and grocery stores. Reported by the Coloradoan Aug 14. No work session or first reading scheduled; not on the Aug 18 agenda. Background: the AG shut down Fort Collins smoke shop Smokin' Genie on May 27 under SB25-072 — sale of kratom to a minor plus mislabeling — the first enforcement action under that law. Owner banned from the industry statewide for five years, $200K penalty if settlement terms are violated.
  
• Aug 18 agenda re-checked — unchanged. Still 25 consent items and one discussion item (#26, Ord. 101 second reading, ADU Grant Program appropriation of $157,000 from DOLA). No amendments or additions. Nothing on tobacco/kratom, surveillance, or the September parking fine increases.
  
• Aug 25 work session — still no agenda posted.
  
• Speaker sign-up closes 5:30 PM Tuesday, Aug 18. Written comment to cityleaders@fortcollins.gov has no deadline.
  

Sources:
- Fort Collins Considers Kratom Crackdown Rules — 1310 KFKA (Aug 14, 2026), citing the Coloradoan
- Fort Collins smoke shop shut down for illegally selling kratom product to minors — Colorado AG (May 27, 2026)
- Aug 25 Work Session detail page — Municode

2026-08-16

• Correction — the Oak & Remington pilot is not moving forward. Council did not reach agreement on it at the Aug 11 work session. The Aug 12 entry here described staff's proposal but not the outcome. Staff will work with the Downtown Development Authority, businesses, and other stakeholders on revised pilot options, back to council for discussion in December 2026. Large-scale changes to the parking system wait until after the College Avenue Waterline Project finishes in 2028.
  
• Correction — Ord. 101 was adopted unanimously on first reading July 21. The Aug 14 entry read its placement off consent as a sign it drew disagreement. The agenda states the unanimous first-reading vote; no reason for the discussion placement appears on the agenda face.
  
• Aug 18 agenda re-checked, third time — unchanged. 25 consent, one discussion item. Two details sharpened on this read: three items under Other Business, not two — (1) possible initiation of new ordinances/resolutions by councilmembers, (2) executive session on the city's negotiating position for business incentives on three separate Fort Collins projects, (3) executive session on new and existing water storage opportunities.
  
• Aug 25 work session — still no agenda.
  
• Speaker sign-up closes 5:30 PM Tuesday, Aug 18.
  

Sources:
- Fort Collins City Council not moving forward with paid-parking pilot program — 9News
- Fort Collins delays plans to charge for parking in popular Northern Colorado shopping district — CBS Colorado (Aug 13, 2026)
- Aug 18 Regular Meeting agenda — Municode HTML
- Council Meetings — participation and sign-up

2026-08-17

• Meeting is tomorrow. Speaker sign-up closes 5:30 PM Tuesday at fortcollins.gov/Government/City-Council/Council-Meetings. Proclamations 5:00 PM, meeting 6:00 PM, Council Chambers, 300 Laporte Ave. Phone: 720-928-9299, Meeting ID 982-4141-6497. Written comment to cityleaders@fortcollins.gov, no deadline. Item G is general public comment on any topic.
  
• Agenda re-checked, fourth time — still 25 consent, one discussion item. New details on this read:
  
  • #26 (discussion), Ord. 101 — the ADU Grant Program appropriation is $157,000 DOLA grant plus an $83,000 local match, $240,000 total. Prior entries had only the DOLA figure.
    
  • Ord. 100 was updated between first and second reading to add further fund transfers. It sits on consent.
    
  • Consent also carries a water exchange agreement with Cargill, Inc., a Rigden Farm pig-grazing proposal for weed control, and changes to liquor license exemptions — none previously listed.
    
  • The seven grant-revenue appropriation ordinances break out as radon, homeland security, LEAF, CDOT, CCTAP, and clean fleet vehicles.
    
• Aug 25 work session — still no agenda. Nothing posted between Aug 26 and Sept 10.
  
• Still not on any agenda: tobacco/kratom licensing, surveillance policy, the September parking fine increases.
  

Sources:
- Aug 18 Regular Meeting agenda — Municode HTML
- Calendar — Fort Collins Municode
- Council Meetings — participation and sign-up

2026-08-18

Fifth read of tonight's agenda, hours before the meeting. Structure holds — 25 consent items, one discussion item — but two funding details sharpened.

• The ADU match comes out of the 2050 Climate Tax. Ord. 101's $83,000 local match isn't general fund; it's Fund 256. Total still $240,000 ($157,000 DOLA + $83,000).
  
• Ord. 100's between-readings amendment is specific: transfers $280,121 from Fund 256 (2050 Climate Tax) and $7,000 from Fund 100 for clean fleet vehicle match and upfit allocations, per a revised table. On consent.
  
• Ordinances 090, 092, 094, and 095 — part of the criminal code / municipal court sentencing rewrite in item #9 — were also revised after first reading, for internal consistency and minor corrections. On consent.
  

Participation, tonight:
- Speaker sign-up closes 5:30 PM at fortcollins.gov/Government/City-Council/Council-Meetings
- Written comment: cityleaders@fortcollins.gov (no deadline)
- Proclamations 5:00 PM, meeting 6:00 PM, Council Chambers, 300 Laporte Ave
- Phone 720-928-9299, Meeting ID 982-4141-6497. Zoom, FCTV Channels 14 & 881.
- Item G is general public comment, any topic.

Aug 25 work session: agenda still not posted. Expected Thursday Aug 20, 5 PM.
Aug 27, 5:00 PM: Urban Renewal Authority Board meeting on the calendar, no materials yet.

Sources:
- Aug 18 agenda — Municode HTML
- Fort Collins meeting portal — Municode

2026-08-19

• Last night's meeting happened; no results published. No minutes, summary, or results document posted to the Aug 18 meeting page — only the pre-meeting agenda and packet. No press coverage of the meeting. Outcome of Ord. 101 (the $240,000 ADU appropriation, second reading, the night's only discussion item) is not yet public. Minutes typically post ahead of the next regular meeting.
  
• Aug 25 work session — agenda still not posted. Due Thursday Aug 20, 5 PM.
  
• Nothing on the calendar past Aug 25. No September regular meeting posted yet; Sept 1 is the first Tuesday. The Aug 27 Urban Renewal Authority Board meeting no longer appears on the Municode council calendar listing.
  

Sources:
- Aug 18 Regular Meeting detail page — Municode
- Aug 25 Work Session detail page — Municode
- Calendar — Fort Collins Municode

2026-08-20

• Aug 18 action agenda and meeting video are now posted — but no minutes. The action agenda is PDF-only and did not machine-read, so Ord. 101 (the $240,000 ADU appropriation) still has no confirmed vote in this file. Both documents are linked below; the video is the fastest way to the answer.
  
  • Action agenda: 2026-08-18actionagenda.pdf
    
  • Video: reflect-vod-fcgov.cablecast.tv — show 3037
    
• Aug 25 work session — agenda still not posted as of midnight. Deadline is today, Thursday Aug 20, 5 PM. Work session = discussion only, no votes, no public comment.
  
• Aug 27, 5:00 PM — Urban Renewal Authority Board is back on the calendar. No agenda posted.
  
• Sept 1, 6:00 PM — Regular Meeting now listed. No agenda posted; due Thursday Aug 27, 5 PM. This is the next meeting that carries votes and public comment.
  
• Speaker sign-up for a regular meeting closes 5:30 PM the day of. Written comment to cityleaders@fortcollins.gov anytime.
  

Sources:
- Aug 18 Regular Meeting detail page — Municode
- Aug 25 Work Session detail page — Municode
- Sept 1 Regular Meeting detail page — Municode
- Agendas/Minutes — Fort Collins Municode

2026-08-21

Aug 25 Work Session Agenda Posted — Two Items, Both Growth/Utilities

Tuesday Aug 25, 6:00 PM, Council Information Center (CIC), 300 Laporte Ave. Work session — discussion only, no votes, no public comment.

Item 1 — Proposed Wholesale Water Agreement with ELCO to Serve Montava. Staff will walk Council through the legal, financial, administrative, water resources and infrastructure arrangements between East Larimer County Water District, the City water utility, and Montava — the 4,000+ unit mixed-use development in northeast Fort Collins. Covers both indoor potable and outdoor non-potable supply. ELCO has issued a will-serve letter for the full development. Background: Northern Water previously rejected a draft covering roughly two-thirds of Montava's treated water need as inconsistent with its Colorado-Big Thompson share policy; one structure under discussion has Montava buying water credits from Fort Collins, which then transfers its own water to ELCO.

Item 2 — Data Center Information and Potential Next Steps. Staff will cover how data centers align (or don't) with the Land Use Code, potential next steps, and how the Platte River Power Authority Large Load Policy affects regional development. The packet includes a Larimer County draft report as an attachment — the city item is landing the same day the county's moratorium expires.

Neither item is a vote. Both preview ordinances that would carry public comment later.

Detail gap: the agenda item summaries, the presentations, and the county draft report are PDF-only and would not machine-read. Only the agenda-level descriptions above are confirmed. No megawatt figures, water volumes, dollar amounts, or proposed code language verified.

Aug 18 Outcomes — Still Unread

Second run in a row the action agenda PDF would not extract. Ord. 101 (the $240,000 ADU appropriation), Ord. 104, Ord. 109, Ord. 110, Res. 2026-103, and Res. 2026-104 outcomes remain unconfirmed. No minutes posted.

Calendar

• Aug 25, 6:00 PM — Work Session (above)
  
• Aug 27, 5:00 PM — Urban Renewal Authority Board; agenda and packet now posted
  
• Sept 1, 6:00 PM — Regular Meeting; no agenda yet, due Thursday Aug 27, 5 PM. Next meeting carrying votes and public comment.
  

Still not on any agenda: September parking fine increases, tobacco/kratom licensing, surveillance policy.

How to Participate

• Speak: sign up online by 5:30 PM the day of the meeting — fortcollins.gov/Government/City-Council/Council-Meetings. Work sessions take no public comment; this applies to the Sept 1 regular meeting.
  
• Write: cityleaders@fortcollins.gov, anytime.
  
• Watch: Zoom and FCTV Channels 14 & 881.
  

Sources:
- Aug 25 Work Session agenda (HTML)
- Aug 25 Work Session packet (PDF)
- Data Center agenda item summary (PDF)
- Larimer County draft report attachment (PDF)
- Montava/ELCO agenda item summary (PDF)
- Fort Collins Municode meeting portal
- Montava Development Proposal — Our City

2026-08-22

Aug 27 URA Board — Eminent Domain on the Table at 1630 N. College

Thursday Aug 27, 5:00 PM, City Council Chambers, 300 Laporte Ave. Agenda and packet posted.

The meeting is nearly empty except for one thing. Past minutes approval (July 23) is the only regular business. Under Other Business, item 2 is a motion to go into executive session regarding 1630 North College Avenue — noticed for potential real property acquisition, eminent domain, legal advice, and negotiation positions. North College Urban Renewal Plan area. No dollar figure, no acreage, no owner named.

Executive session means the substance won't be public. Public participation is taken before it — three minutes per speaker, sign in at the table in the back of the room. That comment period is the only point of entry on this. Language access: 48 hours notice, 970.221.6515.

Aug 25 Work Session — Item Text Confirmed

Tuesday Aug 25, 6:00 PM. Discussion only. No votes, no public comment.

B.1 — Proposed Wholesale Water Agreement with ELCO to Serve Montava. Verbatim: "to explain at a high-level the proposed arrangements (legal, financial, administrative, water resources and infrastructure) between East Larimer Water District (ELCO), the City water utility (the City), and Montava, to provide affordable and sustainable in-door water supply to Montava, a 4000+ unit mixed use development in northeast Fort Collins."

B.2 — Data Center Information and Potential Next Steps. Verbatim: "to provide information on data centers, including how they might align or not align with the Land Use Code, potential next steps, and how the Platte River Power Authority (PRPA) Large Load Policy impacts development in the region."

Still no megawatt figures, water volumes, staff names, or item times — those live in the PDF attachments, which will not machine-read. The attached Larimer County draft report remains unreadable too, which matters more this run: statewide reporting says the county extended its moratorium to February while county pages still say it lapses Aug 25 (see Larimer County Commissioner - Jody Shadduck McNally). That attachment likely settles it and can't be opened.

Aug 18 Outcomes — Third Run, Still Unread

The action agenda is posted and still won't extract. Direct fetch returns raw PDF object streams. Outcomes on the ADU grant appropriation (Ord. 101, $240,000), Ord. 104 Land Bank, Linden Street interim parking (Res. 2026-103 + Ord. 110, $112,438), the seven municipal court/criminal code ordinances, Ord. 109 and Res. 2026-104 all remain unconfirmed. Minutes are not posted for Aug 18 or for the Aug 11 work session.

Sept 1 Regular Meeting

No agenda yet. Due Thursday Aug 27, 5:00 PM, when the speaker portal opens. Next meeting carrying votes and public comment. Speaker sign-up closes 5:30 PM Tuesday Sept 1 at fortcollins.gov/Government/City-Council/Council-Meetings. Written comment: cityleaders@fortcollins.gov. The agenda planning calendar on fortcollins.gov returns 403 to fetchers, so no advance preview of what lands on it.

Still not on any agenda: September parking fine increases, tobacco/kratom licensing, and the citywide surveillance policy promised after the June 6-1 vote killing the Flock contract.

Sources:
- Aug 27 URA Board agenda (HTML)
- Aug 27 URA Board packet (PDF)
- Aug 25 Work Session agenda (HTML)
- Aug 18 action agenda (PDF)
- Fort Collins Municode meeting portal
- After ending Flock contract, Fort Collins begins surveillance policy review — 9News

2026-08-23

Aug 18 — Full Item List Recovered, Outcomes Still Not

The agenda HTML parsed this run. It resolves the shape of the meeting even though the action agenda PDF still won't extract.

Everything was consent except one item. Items 1–25 all sat on the consent calendar, including the ones tracked here: Ord. 104 (ARPA → Land Bank, #17), Res. 2026-103 + Ord. 110 (Linden Street interim parking, #23), Ords. 089–095 (municipal court sentencing and criminal code rewrite, #9), Ord. 109 (ethics/councilmember contact reporting, #22), Res. 2026-104 (Code of Conduct amendments, #24).

The single discussion item was #26, Second Reading of Ord. 101 — the ADU grant program appropriation, $157,000 DOLA + $83,000 from the 2050 Climate Tax = $240,000.

Three items not previously logged:

• #16, Ord. 103 — appropriation from CCIP sales tax reserves (first reading).
  
• #25, Res. 2026-105 — support for a GOCO Land Acquisition Grant.
  
• Under Other Business: two executive sessions — one on Economic Development Incentive Negotiations, one on Water Storage Projects. Neither appeared on a prior agenda tracked here. The water storage session sits a week ahead of the Aug 25 work session on the ELCO/Montava wholesale water agreement.
  

Also on the agenda: a Rental Housing Program Update staff report, and a proclamation declaring Aug 26, 2026 Women's Equality Day.

How the votes went is still unknown. The action agenda PDF returns raw object streams on every fetch path tried; minutes are posted for neither Aug 18 nor the Aug 11 work session.

Aug 25 Work Session — The Attached County Report Is Now Moot

The Larimer County draft report attached to item B.2 still won't machine-read, but the question it was going to answer got settled elsewhere: the county extended its data center moratorium July 13, through Feb 25, 2027 — see Larimer County Commissioner - Jody Shadduck McNally. B.2 lands with the county pause running another six months, not expiring the same day as the work session.

B.1 (ELCO/Montava wholesale water) and B.2 (data centers, Land Use Code, PRPA Large Load Policy) unchanged. Tuesday 6:00 PM, discussion only, no votes and no public comment.

District 5 Listening Session Held Aug 22

Councilmember Amy Hoeven held an informal community listening session Saturday Aug 22. District 5, not yours. Nelsen has not announced one for District 6.

Sources:
- Aug 18 Regular Meeting agenda (HTML)
- Aug 25 Work Session packet (HTML)
- Councilmember Hoeven to Host Listening Session: Aug. 22 — City of Fort Collins
- Fort Collins Municode meeting portal

2026-08-24

Aug 18 Regular Meeting — Outcomes, Finally

The action agenda read this run. Every item passed.

Roll call 6-0 — one of the seven seats was not present; the action agenda doesn't say which. Consent calendar (items 1–25) adopted 6-0. Nothing was pulled for discussion. Adjourned 9:14 p.m.

Item 26, Ord. 101 (ADU Grant Program) — Adopted on Second Reading. The only planned discussion item. $157,000 DOLA grant plus $83,000 from the 2050 City Climate Tax for the cost-share = the $240,000 tracked here. Funds ADU design plans and eligible fee waivers.

Ord. 098 — 314 N. Howes conveyance to Housing Catalyst: adopted on second reading, on consent. No recusal appears in the record. Nelsen sits on the Housing Catalyst board. Current tenant EcoThrift's lease expires Sept 30, 2026; Housing Catalyst exercised its purchase option June 9.

Both executive sessions approved — economic development incentives (three separate Fort Collins projects) and water storage projects.

Items on that agenda not previously logged here:

• Ord. 099 — Addition of Permitted Use, Rigden Farm Sixth Filing: up to 15 pigs grazing 0.8 acres of a 3.96-acre HOA park to eat down a kochia seedbank, two-to-five-year term, electric fence by Modification of Standard. Planning & Zoning recommended it 5-1 on June 18. Staff noted significant public comment, some neighbors objecting on odor, noise, and trust grounds. Adopted on consent — which means the public hearing is deemed opened and closed on the written record alone.
  
• Ord. 105 — Vine and Timberline rail grade separation: $113,098 TCEF for an all-purpose easement at the southeast corner of Timberline and Vine, to elevate Timberline over Vine Drive and the BNSF rail yard.
  
• Ord. 106 — $26,860 Colorado State Patrol BATTLE auto-theft grant, police overtime.
  
• Ord. 107 — $8,122 SIPA micro-grant for an accessibility audit of Municipal Court digital services.
  
• Ord. 108 — expands the 500-foot liquor-license buffer exemption beyond CSU to other schools and colleges siting in mixed-use or commercial areas.
  
• Ord. 100 (Clean Fleet, $1.8M) was amended between first and second reading to add $280,121 from Fund 256 (2050 Climate Tax) and $7,000 from Fund 100.
  

Aug 25 Work Session — Both Items Read

Tuesday 6:00 PM, Council Information Center, 300 Laporte. Discussion only, no votes, no public comment. Cablecast FCTV 14 & 881; livestream at fortcollins.gov/fctv.

B.1 — Wholesale water agreement with ELCO to serve Montava. Staff: Nicole Poncelet-Johnson (One Water Executive Director), Joe Wimmer (Deputy Director, Utility Finance). Montava is 4,000+ units in northeast Fort Collins, inside city limits but inside ELCO's service area. After 18 months of negotiation, the City would sell wholesale treated Colorado-Big Thompson water to ELCO, which distributes it for indoor demand; Montava residents stay ELCO customers, ELCO reimburses the City monthly. Two contracts: a Wholesale Contract (ELCO–City) and a Non-potable Contract (ELCO–City–developer–Montava Metro District).

Staff list the risks plainly: increased demand on existing City supply and a slight decrease in firm yield, less redundancy from strict C-BT use, up-front cost of a City–ELCO interconnect, and a complex agreement to administer. Listed benefit: it reduces claims in a pending water court case. Council is asked whether it supports the arrangement. An ordinance authorizing signature comes back "within the next few months."

B.2 — Data centers. Staff: Dean Klingner (Deputy City Manager), Ginny Sawyer (Assistant to the City Manager). The numbers that matter:

• Fort Collins peak demand is about 325 MW on a hot day. A hyperscale facility can want 100+ MW. The City's existing largest customers run 12–25 MW.
  
• The Land Use Code does not define "data center." An application today would go through Addition of Permitted Use.
  
• Staff judgment: it's unlikely Fort Collins sees anything larger than a colocation-type facility, because larger projects cluster where land and incentives are.
  
• PRPA's Large Load Policy defines large load as more than 10 MW and requires new large loads to "pay their own way" — infrastructure investment, formal agreements, financial security, process checkpoints. By that definition the City already has large-load customers.
  
• Water: the City's top users run 5–10 million gallons annually.
  
• Staff expect data center bills in the 2027 state legislative session; 2026's proposals ranged from incentivizing to banning.
  

Staff's recommended next steps: create definitions and thresholds for acceptable uses, consider additional regulatory requirements, keep participating in regional conversations. No ordinance date offered.

The attached Larimer County draft framework is broken out under Larimer County Commissioner - Jody Shadduck McNally.

Sources:
- Aug 18 Action Agenda (PDF)
- Aug 25 Work Session packet (PDF)
- Aug 25 Work Session agenda (HTML)
- Fort Collins Municode meeting portal

2026-08-27

URA Board meets tonight — 5:00 PM

Thursday, Aug 27, 5:00 PM, City Council Chambers, 300 Laporte Ave. The agenda is thin and the substance is behind closed doors:

• Item 1 (discussion): approve minutes of the July 23, 2026 meeting.
  
• Item 2 (other business): motion to go into executive session on 1630 North College Avenue in the North College Urban Renewal Plan area — potential real property acquisition, eminent domain, legal advice, and negotiating positions.
  

Note the address shift. The July 23 work session covered a 1636 N. College master plan; this is 1630 N. College, and eminent domain is now named in the motion. Whether these are the same assemblage isn't stated on the agenda.

Public participation is at the top of the meeting, before the executive session — item D, three-minute limit, timer buzzes at 30 seconds left, sign in at the back of the room. There is no online sign-up for URA meetings the way there is for Council. Nothing will be voted on in public tonight, so comment during item D is the only opening.

Sept 1 Regular Meeting — agenda posts 5:00 PM today

The September calendar shows the meeting at 6:00 PM Tuesday, Sept 1, but no agenda documents were attached as of this check. Agendas post Thursday at 5:00 PM, which is today — check after 5.

Speaker sign-up opens when the agenda posts and closes at 5:30 PM on Sept 1. Sign up at fortcollins.gov/Government/City-Council/Council-Meetings. Written comment: cityleaders@fortcollins.gov, or City Manager's Office, 300 Laporte Ave, Fort Collins, CO 80521. Watch on FCTV channels 14 and 881 or Zoom.

Calendar anomaly worth verifying. The portal's September listing shows only two Council meetings: Sept 1 (Regular) and Sept 15 (Work Session). Under the normal 1st-and-3rd-Tuesday rule, Sept 15 should be a Regular Meeting and Sept 8 / Sept 22 should be Work Sessions. Either the calendar is incomplete this far out or the fall budget schedule has rearranged things. If it holds, Sept 1 is the only meeting with votes until October.

Tooling note: the portal row for Sept 1 surfaced meeting id 52a498d84582484898942b48a6c6ccfc, but fetching that id returns the June 2, 2026 agenda. Meeting ids scraped out of the portal listing can be mismatched — always confirm the date printed on the agenda before trusting it.

Aug 25 work session — still no outcome coverage

Two days on, no reporting on what direction Council gave on the ELCO/Montava wholesale water agreement or on data centers. Neither BizWest nor the Coloradoan has run an outcome piece. The staff-side content is in the Aug 24 entry above; what Council actually said is still unknown.

Sources:
- Aug 27 URA Board agenda (HTML)
- Fort Collins Municode meeting portal
- September 2026 meeting calendar

2026-08-28

The Sept 1 agenda posted — 26 items, all consent, no discussion items

The agenda is up: Tuesday, Sept 1, 6:00 PM, Council Chambers, 300 Laporte + Zoom. Confirmed against the date printed on the agenda itself; meeting id 633f7f0d59c94f8cb8e4de72af44dcf2.

There are no Planned Discussion Items. Section O exists but is empty. Every substantive item — 9 second readings, 13 first readings, 7 resolutions — sits on the consent calendar, which passes as a single vote without individual presentation or item-specific public comment.

That shapes how to participate. On a consent item the openings are: general public comment near the top of the meeting, or getting a councilmember to pull the item to discussion. A pulled item gets a staff presentation, three-minute public comment, and its own vote. Asking Nelsen to pull an item is the lever, and it has to happen before Tuesday.

The items worth a District 6 resident's attention

Ordinance No. 118 — Land Use Code, review type for residential uses (first reading). "Amending the Land Use Code of the City of Fort Collins to Change the Type of Review for Certain Residential Uses." Staff recommends moving single-unit and multi-unit dwelling review to Basic Development Review in most zones, keeping fuller review in commercial and employment districts where denser development is envisioned.

Basic Development Review is the administrative track — staff decision, no Planning and Zoning Commission hearing. This changes how much public process a residential project in your neighborhood gets. It is on consent, on first reading, with no staff presentation scheduled.

Ordinance No. 120 + Resolution 2026-110 — Montava, second amendments. Both extend the contingency for closing of the developer's purchase from the Anheuser-Busch Foundation by up to two additional years — one amends the PUD Master Plan Development Agreement, the other the agreement securing public benefits.

This is not the ELCO wholesale water item from the Aug 25 work session. That is a separate authorizing ordinance still described as returning "within the next few months." Two Montava items on two tracks; Tuesday's vote is not the water decision.

Resolution 2026-111 — Strauss Lakes Annexation. Finding substantial compliance and initiating annexation proceedings for 147.499 acres northeast of Horsetooth Road and Ziegler Road, proposed LMN/MMN zoning. This is the initiating step; annexation and zoning hearings follow.

Ordinance No. 109 — ethics rules, councilmember contact reporting (second reading). Amends Chapter 2, Article VII, Division 2 on Councilmember obligations to report contacts with City staff about non-routine City matters, per Ethics Review Board recommendations. Second reading, so first reading passed Aug 18.

Resolution 2026-112 — amended Council Rules of Procedure. Updates the rules governing conduct of Council meetings and work sessions. These rules set public comment length and format.

Ordinance No. 116 — Extended Producer Responsibility, $5,525,525. Unanticipated revenue appropriated for recycling education and outreach and to offset residential curbside collection costs.

Also on consent: Ordinance No. 103, CCIP sales tax reserves for Affordable Housing (second reading); Ordinance No. 110, Linden Street Interim Parking (second reading); Ordinance No. 117, residential waste collection program, clarifying City Manager authority to approve contract amendments.

Proclamations at 5:00 PM, before the 6:00 business meeting: Suicide Prevention Month and National Preparedness Month.

How to act before Tuesday

• Speak: online sign-up is open now and closes 5:30 PM Tuesday, Sept 1 — fortcollins.gov/Government/City-Council/Council-Meetings. One opportunity per speaker.
  
• Write: cityleaders@fortcollins.gov reaches all seven; anelsen@fortcollins.gov / 970-817-8784 for Nelsen directly. Mail: City Manager's Office, 300 Laporte Ave, Fort Collins, CO 80521.
  
• Ask for a pull: name the ordinance number in the request.
  
• Watch: FCTV channels 14 and 881, or Zoom.
  

Still not on any agenda: the citywide surveillance policy promised after June's 6-1 vote ending the Flock contract, September parking fine increases, and tobacco/kratom licensing.

The 1630 N. College eminent domain authority already exists — since May

Yesterday's URA executive session read as an early-stage acquisition discussion. It isn't. Resolution No. 164, adopted at a regular URA meeting on May 28, 2026, already did the substantive work:

• Affirms the blight determination on 1630 N. College based on a 2026 Condition Survey Update, confirming the 2004 finding still applies.
  
• Authorizes acquisition by eminent domain (Section 4), resting on City Council's December 21, 2004 authorization for the North College Plan Area.
  
• Appropriates $1,050,000 as a supplemental 2026 budget amendment for the acquisition (Section 9).
  
• Records that good-faith negotiations "have not resulted in an executed purchase and sale agreement." Negotiations had been authorized in February 2023 under Resolution 2023-124.
  
• Section 5: acquisition is for preventing or eliminating blight "without regard to the economic performance of the property to be acquired."
  
• Sections 6 and 7 state the URA does not expect to relocate any individuals, families, or businesses — Section 3 notes the site has no existing business.
  

Sequence: negotiations authorized Feb 2023 → failed → eminent domain and $1.05M authorized May 28, 2026 → executive session Aug 27, 2026 on negotiating positions. The public decision was made in May.

Caveat: this is the resolution as it appeared in the meeting packet, signature block unexecuted — normal for an agenda attachment. Adoption is consistent with BizWest's May 28 story, but the certified adopted version hasn't been confirmed.

Aug 25 work session — still no outcome coverage

Three days on. Nothing from BizWest or the Coloradoan on what direction Council gave on ELCO/Montava wholesale water or on data center definitions and thresholds. No votes were taken, so there is no action agenda to read either.

Sources:
- Sept 1, 2026 Council Regular Meeting agenda (HTML)
- Fort Collins Municode meeting portal
- URA Resolution No. 164 — eminent domain, 1630 N. College (packet PDF)
- Fort Collins URA may expand redevelopment site through eminent domain — BizWest (May 28)