City of Colorado Springs - File #: CPC CA 19-00135

• File #: CPC CA 19-00135
• Version: 6
• Name: PLDO
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Mayor's Office
• File created: 10/23/2019
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 2/23/2021
• Final action: 2/23/2021
• Title: Ordinance No. 21-24 repealing and reordaining Part 12 (Park and School Site Dedications) of Article 7 (Subdivision Regulations) of Chapter 7 (Planning, Development and Building) of the Code of the City of Colorado Springs 2001, as amended, pertaining to park land dedication (Legislative) Presenter: Peter Wysocki, Director of Planning and Community Development Britt Haley, Parks Development Manager/TOPS Program Manager Chris Lieber, N.E.S. Inc.
• Related files: 20-679, 20-680, 21-017, 21-015

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/23/2021	5	City Council	finally passed	Pass
2/9/2021	5	City Council	approved on first reading	Pass
2/9/2021	5	City Council	denied	Fail
1/25/2021	5	Council Work Session	referred
12/17/2020	3	Planning Commission	denied	Fail
12/17/2020	3	Planning Commission	recommended for approval	Pass
11/19/2020	3	Planning Commission	postponed to a date certain	Pass
11/7/2019	1	Council Work Session	referred

Title
Ordinance No. 21-24 repealing and reordaining Part 12 (Park and School Site Dedications) of Article 7 (Subdivision Regulations) of Chapter 7 (Planning, Development and Building) of the Code of the City of Colorado Springs 2001, as amended, pertaining to park land dedication

(Legislative)

Presenter:
Peter Wysocki, Director of Planning and Community Development
Britt Haley, Parks Development Manager/TOPS Program Manager
Chris Lieber, N.E.S. Inc.

Body
Background:
The Planning and Community Development Department, and the Parks, Recreational and Cultural Services Department mutually request the proposed code amendment. The new ordinance was initiated by the Administration in an effort to update the park land dedication/payment of fees in-lieu of dedication requirements that have been in effect and fundamentally unchanged since the original adoption in 1974.

Please see the attached presentation for detailed background and information.

Amendments to the Chapter 7 - the zoning and subdivision code - are authorized by Section 7.5.602 and may be initiated by staff, Planning Commission, City Council or the Mayor.

There are four parts and four separate motions recommended:

First: action on the "new" park land dedication ordinance.

Second: action on a resolution adopting the park land dedication criteria manual, which sets forth administrative procedures to assist in administration of the PLDO.

Third: action on the Neighborhood Park Geographic Service Area map. Under the current PLDO, there are no service areas - in other words, fees in lieu of land dedication collected in the Southeast part of the City could be spent on acquiring land in the North part of the City. Establishing Neighborhood Park Geographic Service Areas is a concept identified during the process designed to assure that when fees in-lieu of land are paid for neighborhood parks, and the fees are spent in relative proximity to the development generating the additional park needs. For...