City of Colorado Springs - File #: CPC CA 18-00082

• File #: CPC CA 18-00082
• Version: 5
• Name: PlanCOS - City's Comprehensive Plan
• Type: Planning Case
• Status: Mayor's Office
• File created: 9/25/2018
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 1/22/2019
• Final action: 1/22/2019
• Title: Ordinance No. 19-2 adopting PlanCOS as the City of Colorado Springs Comprehensive Plan (Legislative Item) Presenters: Peter Wysocki, Planning and Development Director Carl Schueler, Comprehensive Planning Manager, Planning and Development Department
• Indexes: Code Amendment, PlanCOS
• Related files: CPC CA 18-00152

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/22/2019	4	City Council	finally passed	Pass
1/8/2019	4	City Council	approved on first reading	Pass
1/7/2019	4	Council Work Session	referred
12/10/2018	4	Council Work Session	referred
11/26/2018	4	Council Work Session	postpone to a date certain
11/15/2018	2	Planning Commission
10/18/2018	2	Planning Commission
10/2/2018	1	Downtown Review Board

Title
Ordinance No. 19-2 adopting PlanCOS as the City of Colorado Springs Comprehensive Plan

(Legislative Item)

Presenters:
Peter Wysocki, Planning and Development Director
Carl Schueler, Comprehensive Planning Manager, Planning and Development Department

Body
Summary:
Work on PlanCOS started in late summer of 2016. Through a competitive process, and notionally recognized urban planning consultancy, Logan-Simpson, was selected as the lead project consultant. Additional sub-consultants included:

* Felsburg, Holt and Ullevig-- (Transportation)
* P.U.M.A- Progressive Urban Management Association-- (Development and redevelopment economics)
* TischlerBise-- (Fiscal impacts and trends)
* Drexel, Barrell & Company-- (Utilities)
* CDR Associates-- (Meeting facilitation)

Home rule cities are authorized to adopt general plans/comprehensive plans by the Colorado Revised Statutes, and this process is outlined in Chapter 7, Article 1 of City Code. Comprehensive plans are generally considered long-range plans for land planning and other topics that affect land planning such as mobility, economic development, housing, among others determined to be identified through local process.

The purpose of this Work Session is to introduce a draft PlanCOS as endorsed by the Comprehensive Plan Executive Steering Committee and recommended for adoption by the Planning Commission. A second Work Session is planned for December 10, 2018 to respond to any Council comments and direction. This is expected to be followed by formal Council hearings to adopt PlanCOS - by an ordinance - in January of 2019.

If adopted by City Council, PlanCOS will replace the current City of Colorado Springs Comprehensive Plan which was adopted and has been in place since 2001. PlanCOS was created through a two-year process. It is organized around themes rather than more traditional topical headings (elements) found in most land use plans. In addition to containing more typical goals, policie...