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Fort Collins staff recommend phased TOC designations, seek early certification using existing TOD overlay
Summary
City planners told council how HB24-1313 (TOC) affects Fort Collins, explained a housing-opportunity calculation and recommended designating the existing TOD overlay as an initial transit center to pursue pilot grant funding while phasing additional corridors with outreach by year-end.
Planning staff told the Fort Collins City Council that state transit-oriented-communities (TOC) legislation requires communities to set a zoning-capacity "housing opportunity goal" and designate transit centers with sufficient zoning capacity to meet that benchmark.
Ryan Mounts and Megan Keith explained the law (HB24-1313) and the practical implications for Fort Collins. Mounts said the city's calculation uses roughly 3,400 acres of eligible transit area (after exemptions for parks, government-owned land, schools, mobile-home parks and industrial areas) multiplied by the state-prescribed 40 dwelling units per acre, producing a zoning-capacity benchmark of roughly 135,000 units. Mounts said that historical delivery suggests actual construction averages about 10% of zoning capacity, yielding an estimated ~13,500 dwelling…
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