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Add Water Park and Pool Back into the Southeast Recreation and Arts Center
Final supporters
[Note: This petition has closed as we prepare to present it to City Council on October 7, 2014. You may continue to send comments supporting this initiative to City Council at [email protected].]
Fort Collins City Council-
We, the citizens of Fort Collins, ask that you reinstate plans for indoor leisure and lap pools in the Southeast Recreation and Arts Center. Reasons for removing these and other popular features contravene the City Plan's own Community and Neighborhood Livability vision for a high quality built environment with "vital and appealing activity centers and destinations throughout the city." Furthermore,adding these features back conforms with the City Plan's High Performing Community vision by making recreational opportunities more "inclusive and accessible to all people," regardless of where they live.
1) The city's public outreach shows constituents' most requested feature is a leisure pool. complete with water slides and a lazy river. This feature meets a need for children which is currently unavailable and fulfills Policy CPR 4.1 by improving balance and expanding the variety of recreational opportunities available within Fort Collins. Policy CPR 5.1 instructs the city to address changing needs by seeking public input. In agreement with that policy, we're asking you to respond to the public input you've already received.
2) Fort Collins has an established need for additional pool facilities for swimming teams. At present, all four of the city's pools are located in the northern section of town. This concentration of resources defies Policies T 1.1, T 3.2, T 3.4, T 12.1, T 12.2, SW 2.1, SW 2.3 and SW 2.4 by forcing most residents to either drive personal vehicles to these facilities or forego these year-round opportunities entirely.
Please reinstate leisure and lap pools into plans for the Southeast Recreation and Arts Center. This petition serves to reiterate your constituents' wishes in this regard.
Fort Collins City Plan (policy and vision references)
http://www.fcgov.com/planfortcollins/pdf/cityplan.pdf
Fort Collins Southeast Recreation & Arts Feasibility Study
http://www.fcgov.com/recreation/pdf/fcseccfeasibilitystudy2013.pdf
This petition is for Fort Collins residents only. Your comments will be included when this is presented to the Fort Collins City Council. If you'd like to send additional comments directly to councilmembers, send them to [email protected]
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July 23, 2014
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251 Comments
The southeast area of Fort Collins is in dire need of a beautiful swimming facility similar to what is present at the Chilson Center in Loveland. Why can't Fort Collins citizens have amenities as nice as those that Loveland citizens enjoy?
The population growth of the southeast neighborhoods of Fort Collins has been tremendous and will continue to be, therefore the addition of an aquatic and recreational facility is this area is, in my opinion, a no brainer.
It's really unfair that nearly all of the public recreation facilities are on the North Side of town. It's a 20-30 minute drive from the South part of Fort Collins. We pay taxes too and deserve a facility in our area with a pool for all the kids who live in our neighborhoods.
Please re-think the decision to remove the leisure pool, water slide, etc from the Southeast Recreation and Arts Center. There is already so few places for families to enjoy themselves, nothing on this part of town. Thank you.
We definitely need another pool in Fort Collins. The south side of town is exploding with families are there are no options for swimming. Our current pools are small and outdated. As a mom of two I support having pool/water park as part of the rec center!!
No other sizeable community across the Front Range has the imbalance we have here in Fort Collins. A very large (and growing!) swimming and diving community, combined with existing aquatics facilities that are aging, under-maintained, and chronically over-scheduled. The fact that we have 4 large high schools w/o a single pool tells us all we need to know. Lets build this pool!
Please take the time to raise the money needed for a competitve swim pool in SE Fort Collins. The ideal location would be right next to Fossil Ridge High School for those early morning swim practices.
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Add Water Park and Pool Back into the Southeast Recreation and Arts Center
Final supporters
[Note: This petition has closed as we prepare to present it to City Council on October 7, 2014. You may continue to send comments supporting this initiative to City Council at [email protected].]
Fort Collins City Council-
We, the citizens of Fort Collins, ask that you reinstate plans for indoor leisure and lap pools in the Southeast Recreation and Arts Center. Reasons for removing these and other popular features contravene the City Plan's own Community and Neighborhood Livability vision for a high quality built environment with "vital and appealing activity centers and destinations throughout the city." Furthermore,adding these features back conforms with the City Plan's High Performing Community vision by making recreational opportunities more "inclusive and accessible to all people," regardless of where they live.
1) The city's public outreach shows constituents' most requested feature is a leisure pool. complete with water slides and a lazy river. This feature meets a need for children which is currently unavailable and fulfills Policy CPR 4.1 by improving balance and expanding the variety of recreational opportunities available within Fort Collins. Policy CPR 5.1 instructs the city to address changing needs by seeking public input. In agreement with that policy, we're asking you to respond to the public input you've already received.
2) Fort Collins has an established need for additional pool facilities for swimming teams. At present, all four of the city's pools are located in the northern section of town. This concentration of resources defies Policies T 1.1, T 3.2, T 3.4, T 12.1, T 12.2, SW 2.1, SW 2.3 and SW 2.4 by forcing most residents to either drive personal vehicles to these facilities or forego these year-round opportunities entirely.
Please reinstate leisure and lap pools into plans for the Southeast Recreation and Arts Center. This petition serves to reiterate your constituents' wishes in this regard.
Fort Collins City Plan (policy and vision references)
http://www.fcgov.com/planfortcollins/pdf/cityplan.pdf
Fort Collins Southeast Recreation & Arts Feasibility Study
http://www.fcgov.com/recreation/pdf/fcseccfeasibilitystudy2013.pdf
This petition is for Fort Collins residents only. Your comments will be included when this is presented to the Fort Collins City Council. If you'd like to send additional comments directly to councilmembers, send them to [email protected]
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 4, 2014
September 1, 2014
We are approaching one thousand signatures and require a final push to reach this objective. Please direct your contacts to this page today so we can present a unified position to the City Council.
Reached 100 supporters
July 25, 2014
July 23, 2014
We are approaching one hundred signatures which will provide a clearer mandate when we present our case to the City Council. Please distribute this link through your social media channels today to ensure we reach that milestone promptly.
251 Comments
Please reinstate the pool back into the plans. As a regular swimmer I am unable to utilize the pools during peak hours because the lanes are occupied by school swim teams. As a result I pay for a gym membership simply to use the pool. Unfortunate.
The southeast area of Fort Collins is in dire need of a beautiful swimming facility similar to what is present at the Chilson Center in Loveland. Why can't Fort Collins citizens have amenities as nice as those that Loveland citizens enjoy?
The population growth of the southeast neighborhoods of Fort Collins has been tremendous and will continue to be, therefore the addition of an aquatic and recreational facility is this area is, in my opinion, a no brainer.
It's really unfair that nearly all of the public recreation facilities are on the North Side of town. It's a 20-30 minute drive from the South part of Fort Collins. We pay taxes too and deserve a facility in our area with a pool for all the kids who live in our neighborhoods.
Please re-think the decision to remove the leisure pool, water slide, etc from the Southeast Recreation and Arts Center. There is already so few places for families to enjoy themselves, nothing on this part of town. Thank you.
We definitely need another pool in Fort Collins. The south side of town is exploding with families are there are no options for swimming. Our current pools are small and outdated. As a mom of two I support having pool/water park as part of the rec center!!
No other sizeable community across the Front Range has the imbalance we have here in Fort Collins. A very large (and growing!) swimming and diving community, combined with existing aquatics facilities that are aging, under-maintained, and chronically over-scheduled. The fact that we have 4 large high schools w/o a single pool tells us all we need to know. Lets build this pool!
Please take the time to raise the money needed for a competitve swim pool in SE Fort Collins. The ideal location would be right next to Fossil Ridge High School for those early morning swim practices.
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Please reinstate the pool back into the plans. As a regular swimmer I am unable to utilize the pools during peak hours because the lanes are occupied by school swim teams. As a result I pay for a gym membership simply to use the pool. Unfortunate.