HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES CompPAC 2021-10-21Town of Estes Park, Larimer County, Colorado, October 21, 2021
Minutes of a Regular meeting of the Comprehensive Plan Advisory
Committee of the Town of Estes Park, Larimer County, Colorado. Meeting
held via ZOOM in said Town of Estes Park on October 21 2021.
Committee:
Also Attending:
Chair Matthew Heiser, Vice-Chair Bob Leavitt, Members
David Bangs, Eric Blackhurst, Chuck Cooper, Kirby
Nelson-Hazelton, John Schnipkoweit, Karen Thompson,
Rose Truman, David Wolf, David Shirk, Matt Comstock,
Mike Kennedy
Community Development Director Jessica Garner,
Larimer County Community Development Director Lesli Ellis,
Trustee Barbara MacAlpine, Senior Planner Jeff Woeber,
Recording Secretary Karin Swanlund
Absent: Kennedy, Shirk, Comstock
Chair Heiser called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA:
The motion passed with a visual thumbs-up vote.
PUBLIC COMMENT.
None
CONSENT AGENDA:
1.Approval of Minutes from October 7, 2021
2.Approval of updated Bylaws. It was requested to pull the Bylaws off consent
and move to an action item.
It was moved and seconded (Leavitt/Bangs) to approve the minutes. The motion passed
with a visual thumbs-up vote.
ACTION ITEM:
The updated Bylaws have a reference to CFAB instead of CompPac. The mistake has
been corrected.
It was moved and seconded (Cooper/Leavitt) to approve the Bylaws. The motion passed
with a visual thumbs-up vote.
DISCUSSION ITEMS: (all comments have been summarized)
Miriam McGilvray, Project Manager for Logan Simpson, discussed how the outreach
would be handled and the expectations of the Committee members. It is important to
remember who to engage and get the word out about upcoming Community Visioning
Events. Chair Heiser asked that Logan Simpson tell the Committee what they are looking
for from the community engagement, a “meeting in a box.” Member Thompson noted
that talking points and standard answers would help with outreach. Director Garner
shared the engageestes.org website is the best place to send people who have questions.
Vice-Chair Leavitt asked for the list of stakeholders be shared with the Committee.
The “Snapshot” document was centered around already engaged stakeholders, and the
33 interviews are not nearly enough to base the plan data on. The information was
obtained by a joint effort from the consulting teams. The 2020 census data is trickling in,
and only pieces of that were used.
Member Blackhurst asked how the taxing districts that have presented at the CompPac
meetings fit into the scope of the Comprehensive Plan. Director Garner stated that a
Comp Plan isn’t a regulatory document but a guidebook to form the common goal that
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encompasses all aspects of a community, “the should”; the Development Code is “the
shall.” The role of all the “players” is essential to understand.
Next steps: after the engagement process, a summary of the data collected will be done,
and a joint meeting with the Estes Valley Comp Plan Committee will be held in December
to present the results.
The November 18 meeting will host Cato Kraft from EPNRC and Ruben Bergsten from
the Utilities Department. Both sanitation districts will speak at the December 2 meeting.
There being no further business, Chair Heiser adjourned the meeting at 10:20 a.m.
Karin Swanlund, Recording Secretary