Per Estes Park Development Code - Chapter 3 -Review Procedures and Standards - Section 3.2 Standard Development Review Procedure - Step 2

Procedure. If a neighborhood and community meeting is held by the applicant, it shall generally comply with the following procedures:

(1) Time and Place. The neighborhood and community meeting shall be held at a place that is generally accessible to neighbors that own and/or reside in the notification area to the land subject to the application. It shall be scheduled after 5:00 p.m. on a weekday or at any time on a weekend day.

(2) Written Notification. The applicant shall provide notification of the neighborhood and community meeting a minimum of ten (10) business days in advance of the meeting by placing notice in a newspaper or display advertising of general circulation in the Estes Valley and by mailing notice to all owners and occupants within the notification boundary of the land subject to the application. The list of owners within the notification area of the affected property shall be obtained by the applicant from the most recent version of the property owners of record provided by The Town of Estes Park. The notification shall state the time and place of the meeting.

Posted Notices of Neighborhood and Community Meeting. Required posted notice requirements shall be on a standard sign with format and material as determined by the Planning Department. The following additional requirements shall apply to posted notices pursuant to this Section:

a) Any posted notice shall be legible from a public street or public right-of-way in clear weather conditions. "Legible" is defined as meeting the legibility requirements in the Estes Park Municipal Code Chapter 17.66 (Signs).

b) Projects abutting more than one public street or public right-of-way shall be required to post one (1) additional sign for each abutting public street or public right-of-way.

c) Posting of all notice(s) required by this Section shall take place no later than ten (10) days prior to any given neighborhood and community meeting for which the posting is required, and the posted signage shall remain until the close of any such neighborhood and community meeting, including the closing dates of any neighborhood and community meeting that may be continued or postponed.

d) Proof that the required signage was posted in accord with this Section shall be provided to the Planning Department prior to the opening of any neighborhood and community meeting. A date-stamped photograph of the posted notice in context shall be deemed adequate proof for purposes of this Section.

e) Removal, damage or destruction of a properly posted notice by weather or other natural occurrence shall not be construed as failure to comply with the public notice provisions of this Code.

As of 2/01/2023 there's been no public posting of the meeting in a newspaper or display advertising of general circulation in the Estes Valley. Item a - the sign posted contains a website URL that is only legible by stopping on the road next to the sign. The applicant cannot satisfy section d.

The following petitioners are requesting the meeting be postponed until March 14, 2023, as the applicant has not followed appropriate procedures as outlined in the current Development Code. The applicant's choice of Meeting venue should allow adequate room for all public attendance.