This funding provides an annual fund for construction of missing and ADA deficient sidewalks to complete the build out of the City network as well as pedestrian crossing improvements recommended in the Active Modes Plan. This funding provides approximately 1.5 to 2 miles of new sidewalk per year. Priority is given to areas near schools to advance the Safe Routes to School Program, as well as along arterial roads. Fund can also provide for local grant match.

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This funding provides an annual fund for improvements to arterial intersections with safety improvements for all travel modes. This funding has allowed City staff to provide needed design, local match for grants, and construction funding, for previous major arterial intersection improvements. This program will be focused on implementing the transportation infrastructure required to support our Vision Zero action plan, as the arterial intersection improvements are located on our High Injury Network.  From our 10-year Transportation Capital Improvement Program (TCIP), notable planned projects include:

• Shields and Prospect Intersection Improvements
• Shields and Horsetooth Intersection Improvements
• Drake and Lemay Intersection Improvements
• College and Drake Intersection Improvements
• Shields Corridor, Taft Hill Corridor, and N. Timberline Corridor 

The program is proposed to expand to encompass streetscape improvement projects for 2026-2035. Previous streetscape projects funded by the capital tax include Linden Street Renovation (2021) and Willow Street Renovation (2019). Due to the 10-year project timeline and uncertain project viability for potential upcoming streetscape projects, individual projects are not recommended in advance. Streetscape projects create better urban design corridors, expanding the feel of Old Town as accomplished by the previous streetscape renovations.  This program is planned to contribute to one or more of the following identified streetscape projects.

• Willow Street (Linden to Lincoln)
• Jefferson Street (College to Linden)
• Jefferson Street (Linden to Mountain)
• Midtown Streetscape - College (Drake to Boardwalk)

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This funding provides an annual fund to construct bicycle infrastructure as recommended in the Active Modes Plan (AMP). This includes linear facility improvements such as buffered and separated bike lanes as well as spot treatments or crossing improvements such as bike/ped signals and protected intersections. Projects have been prioritized using the outcomes-based evaluation measures of network connectivity, access to transit, safety and comfort, and health and equity, with an emphasis on Safe Routes to Schools. This fund combines the previous capital tax Bicycle Infrastructure Improvements and Bike/Ped Grade Separated Crossing and so will also fund pedestrian underpass projects that align with the AMP and the Strategic Trails Master Plan.

Notable Active Modes Plan future projects include:

• Shields Street separated bike lanes (Mulberry St. to Hilldale Dr.)
• Taft Hill Road separated bike lanes (Laporte Ave. to Horsetooth Rd.)
• Lake Street separated bike lanes (Shields St. to Mason Trail)
• Willox Lane sidepath (College Ave. to Shields St.)
• Boardwalk Drive buffered bike lanes (JFK Pkwy to Harmony Rd)
• Putnam Elementary bike/ped crossing improvement (Laporte/Roosevelt)
• Olander Elementary bike/ped crossing improvements (Horsetooth/Arizona and  Horsetooth/Platte)
• Johnson Elementary/Webber Middle School bike/ped crossing improvements (Taft Hill/Imperial and Taft Hill/Brixton)
• Tavelli Elementary bike/ped crossing improvements (Lemay/Willox)
• Irish Elementary bike/ped crossing improvements (Vine/Irish)
• Lesher Middle School/PSD Global bike/ped crossing improvements (Prospect/Stover)
• Fort Collins High School bike/ped crossing improvements (Horsetooth/Kingsley)

Notable grade separated crossings from Strategic Trails Plan include:

• Power Trail connection to Caribou Drive
• Power Trail connection to Nancy Gray Drive
• Linden Street and Poudre River Trail

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Transfort maintains 418 bus stops throughout Transfort’s service area, of those, approximately 150 bus stops will need replacement and updated amenities over the next 10 years. Transfort operates 53 buses in service, and will have at least 30 buses, including eight articulated MAX buses, reach the end of useful life in the next 10 years. The previous 10-year capital tax funded $3M towards Transfort’s local match to leverage $12M in federal funds. These funds purchased 14 bus replacements and completed ADA improvements at 240 bus stops. Funding also went toward the purchase of needed amenities including 25 shelters, and approximately 90 benches and trash cans.  

The next 10 years of capital sales tax funding will assist Transfort in replacing buses on a regular schedule to meet a goal of 0% of vehicles are past Transfort’s useful life benchmark. To align with Our Climate Future, Transfort has adopted a goal to purchase Zero Emission Vehicles for all future bus replacements. A portion of funds may also be used toward the procurement of smaller or alternative vehicles, as a result of the ongoing 2024 Optimization & Microtransit Planning study.  Capital sales tax funding will also be used to purchase additional enhancement amenities for bus stops, continuing to add needed shelters to stops, and to maintain Transfort’s existing bus stops in a state of good repair for future riders.

The Housing Fund is intended to provide a flexible source of funding for development or rehabilitation of one or more public or private housing projects that meet the City's Land Use Code definition of Affordable Housing Development (10-20% of units deed-restricted and affordable). The Housing Fund will provide additional funding that either addresses a critical funding gap or accelerates a project construction timeline. While timing and use of the Housing Fund is intentionally flexible, funds must be used in one of three ways for qualifying projects:

• Fee relief
• Direct subsidy and/or
• Low-interest revolving loans

These funds may not fund day-to-day operational costs, rent payments, or other non-capital costs.

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This project funds enhancements at the Farm at Lee Martinez Park by expanding inclusive outdoor recreation opportunities including a shelter space and additional education features.

Opened in 1974 after renovating the former Lincoln Jr. High, the 50-year-old aquatic facility is functionally obsolete and should be rebuilt to meet the current and future needs of the Fort Collins community per the 2023 Recreation Aquatics Study. 

Mulberry Pool is the only pool in Fort Collins that provides a small year-round leisure pool that serves families. Mulberry also provides lap lanes for both the community, Poudre School District swim teams and club teams along with swim lessons for swimmers of all abilities.  Mullberry Pool was rated as the lowest quality of all Parks and Recreation facilities in Fort Collins due to it being functionally obsolete and in need of replacement.

A new modern facility would better serve the growing needs of Fort Collins. The facility could include a full warm water leisure pool with zero entry, slide(s) and other play features. The facility will also include at least 6 lap lanes to maintain the current level of service for the Fort Collins swim community. Public pool facilities provide multi-generational benefits in health, wellness, water safety training and recreational access that creates a more equitable future for all community members. 

This project will seek additional partners and funding.

For the third year in a row, pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in America. Ensuring facilities and programs continue to respond to changing user needs helps met the Parks and Recreation Plan goal of providing equitable access to recreational experiences.  

The Parks and Recreation Plan calls for thirteen additional pickleball courts by 2040.  A pickleball complex feasibility study was completed to determine if a community park site could close the gap in the short-term while waiting for future community parks (and additional courts) to be built. Based community feedback, there is a large amount of support for a pickleball complex at Fossil Creek Community Park. Noise impacts remain one of the highest concerns and the City is in studying the issue with an independent, third-party acoustical engineer to evaluate noise impacts in greater detail.  Building a 12-court complex would cost approximately $4m.

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Trails are the highest rated Community Services amenity (93%) in the 2024 City of Fort Collins Community Survey. The City is updating the Strategic Trails Plan (STP) which provides a framework for the future planning, design, maintenance, and preservation of the recreational paved trail system. The Strategic Trail Plan is currently in phase III of public outreach and will be completed in mid-2025.

Paved trails cost approximately $1 million per linear mile to build. Additional annual funding through the capital tax will leverage Conservation Trust Funds and expedite trail implementation. Planning efforts are underway through the current budget for the northeast and western Fort Collins, where proposed trails are poised to connect a rapidly developing area with limited walking and biking infrastructure. 

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NOCO Humane estimates that there approximately 30,843 dogs in Fort Collins.  The Parks & Recreation Master Plan identifies the need for four additional dog parks by 2040. There is a current deficit in the central west and central east sections of town, because dog parks were not a standard amenity when nearby community parks were built. This funding would build two new dog parks.

This funding would be used to implement first phase of a bike park based on feedback gathered in a future bike park feasibility study.

For twenty years, The Children’s Garden at the Gardens has been a staple for providing family-friendly activities for our community. Filled with numerous inviting areas for curious kids to explore, discover, and grow, the garden is one of Garden’s most popular attractions, serving daily visitors and acting as a classroom for our youth summer camps. A comprehensive renovation will rejuvenate the space to better align with current learning theory, and to address drainage and maintenance issues. 

Additionally, event infrastructure updates will allow the Gardens to better serve the increased attendance at events. This project will directly address issues with restroom availability, reimagined propagation spaces, and ADA enhancements.

This funding would be utilized to stabilize the historic downtown trolley building.  This building currently houses the Museum object artifacts and other miscellaneous storage. Stabilizing the building for future use is a first step towards maintaining and opening the space for greater public use. Funding in this offer includes temporary storage of the artifacts. In 2017, the Downtown Master Plan identified the historic Downtown Trolley Building as high potential for a community-centered use.

This funding is proposed to improve access to the Poudre River for neighborhoods to the north and would include habitat restoration and user experience and accessibility improvements to Legacy Park, Hickory Trail and Soft Gold Park.  Better access to the Poudre River for the neighborhoods north of the River could improve vehicular and pedestrian connectivity within Soft Gold Park, Hickory Trail, Salyer Natural Area, Legacy Park, Magpie Meander Natural Area and/or River’s Edge Natural Area.  Minor improvements to support the user experience and recreational use of both Legacy and Soft Gold parks may be possible. 

This project will build on planned stormwater detention work that will support safety and community development in the North College region. Efforts to address flow consolidation and flooding concerns for the North College community will also support further river health and riparian habitat priorities.  As funding allows, the project may also improve river edges, habitat and support ongoing Stormwater floodplain restoration upstream of College Avenue.  

Five pieces of heavy machinery are included in this offer. The Crushing and Recycling Facility is a significant contributor to waste diversion and provides recycled materials to both the City and the public. In 2023, this facility processed approximately 138,000 tons of concrete and asphalt for reuse and diverting this material from the landfill.

The TRC is currently seeing over 400 visitors per day and this project would implement identified site improvements to make the site more accessible to all, improve safety for visitors and staff, and meet the increased demand for recycling services in our community. Elements included in this project:

• ADA accessibility through ramps and walkways as well as decreased distance from bins to vehicles.
• Expanded access to recycling bins to meet the increasing number of customers and amount of material recycled at the site.

The Parks Department operates on a district model for maintenance activities.  The importance of the maintenance shops being located and constructed in close proximity to the areas of responsibility is paramount in the downtown district.  The "Disney Approach" of getting into the downtown early and disappearing into the landscape leaving behind a well-groomed landscape can only be achieved when the support of a maintenance shop is in close proximity.  The current downtown site is located in a refurbished commercial warehouse which is near the end of its useful life and will be displaced as part of the Civic Center Master Plan.

Providing a new facility in the downtown area will house not only the local support staff but also the crews which support the horticultural areas around our facilities, throughout the public areas and trail systems.  Two districts will work out of this facility providing efficient operations in a timely manner to the public.

Nature in the City (NIC) projects provide opportunities for people to interact with and become stewards of their surrounding environment. NIC projects build familiarity with and acceptance of native plantings and naturalized landscapes, with each project helping bring nature closer to the places our community lives, works, learns, and plays. These projects increase wildlife values by creating stronger connectivity between larger patches of urban habitat, such as natural areas and City parks. By funding both internal City efforts and public/private partnerships, the community integrates diverse, native landscapes from the center of Fort Collins to the edges of the Growth Management Area. City-led projects typically address the need to replace existing, resource-intensive and low habitat value landscapes with more diverse and efficient landscapes that help demonstrate how the City organization is working to achieve the same standards being asked of the community. Community-led projects support efforts to extend naturalized landscapes throughout the community. 

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$4m - Ongoing - 2016-2025

Development and rehabilitation costs for public and private housing projects specifically for low-income individuals and families

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$6m - Ongoing - 2016-2025

Updates to major arterial intersections to improve safety and reduce congestion. Updates include:

• Completed Vine and Shields Intersection project
• Completed Horsetooth and College Intersection project
• Upcoming College and Trilby Intersection project

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$5m - Ongoing - 2016-2025

To align with the City’s 2014 Bicycle Master Plan, these projects will include infrastructure improvements in order to enhance safety, provide wayfinding, and improve comfort and access for bicyclists. Updates include:

• Completed Mulberry protected bike lane
• Completed Laporte and Loomis intersection crossing
• Upcoming Elizabeth/Ponderosa and Columbia/Lemay crossings

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$6m - Ongoing - 2016, 2019, 2023-2024

Construction of top priority grade-separated bicycle and pedestrian crossings across arterial roadways. Updates include:

• Upcoming Power Trail over Harmony Road
• Upcoming Siphon overpass south of Harmony Road
• Upcoming Timberline underpass north of Zephyr Road

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$1m - Ongoing - 2016-2025

Part of the Safe Routes to Everywhere program, this project will provide an annual fund to align with ADA accessibility and improve bus stops throughout the City.

$1.7m - Scheduled - 2024

Renovation of the historic 1904 Carnegie library building to enhance its use as a community center in hosting special events, community meetings, art exhibits, and symposiums in the heart of Downtown

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$350k - Delayed - 2016

Bringing back the City Park Train in a new and expanded location in City Park

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$250k - Completed - 2016

Renovation of Club Tico at City Park to add restrooms and a second story deck overlooking Sheldon Lake and City Park Pool

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$2m - Completed - 2019

Doubling the square footage of the Visitor’s Center to add a new entryway with gift shop, a conservatory, meeting rooms, a small café, and additional office space

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$5.3m - Completed

Funding to design and construct right-of-way improvements to the west segment of Lincoln Avenue, including the Poudre River Bridge

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$3m - In progress - 2020

Funding final design, construction, and right-of-way acquisition for renovation of the downtown 200 block of Linden Street.  Due to COVID-19 this project is being phased.

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$3m - Ongoing - 2016-2025

Funding to support projects that connect people and wildlife to high-quality habitat and a diversity of experiences in nearby nature

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$14m - Ongoing - 2016-2025

Funding to implement a 52-year compliance program, eliminating gaps in the City’s pedestrian network, and improving ADA compliance. 

• Completed widened sidewalks on Drake
• Completed new sidewalks on South Timberline and Harmony
• Upcoming widened sidewalks on East Prospect

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$4m - Completed - 2019

This new whitewater park will include viewing/picnic areas and a pedestrian bridge over the river, in addition to lowering the river channel to improve flood mitigation.

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$14m - Scheduled - 2023

Construction of a Community Center in southeast Fort Collins including a large outdoor leisure pools, water slides, sprays and jets, decks, a lazy river, and open swimming area

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$2m - Ongoing - 2018, 2022, 2025

Replacement of heavy duty buses over the next 10 years; funds will be leveraged to receive an 80% match of federal and state grant funding

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$3.07m - Completed

Design and construction of improvements to Willow Street between College Avenue and Linden Street

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