Longmont City Council on Tuesday approved three ordinances that change previous land use designations, zoning categories and conceptual development plans for parts of the Irwin-Thomas Annexation area in southeast Longmont.
That area, which the city annexed in 2018, is generally bounded by Martin Street on the west, both sides of Colo. 119 on the north, 119th Street on the east and Quail Road on the south.
The revisions to the earlier city-approved comprehensive plan, zoning categories and conceptual development plans for more than 200 acres within the Irwin-Thomas Annexation area will now enable such projects as Costco’s construction of a 150,000 square-foot wholesale store and fueling station on a 17-acre site east of and adjacent to the Harvest Junction South retail and residential development in southeast Longmont, which is south of East Ken Pratt Boulevard.
It will also accommodate Longmont’s plans to purchase a 9-acre property immediately south of the Costco site, a parcel that Longmont could use for a future affordable-housing development or eventually sell to help finance an affordable housing project elsewhere in the city.
No one from the general public testified Tuesday night before the council members’ trio of 5-0 votes on the three ordinances by council members Aren Rodriguez, Susie Hidalgo-Fahring, Joan Peck, Polly Christiansen and Marcia Martin. Mayor Brian Bagley and Councilman Tim Waters were absent.
Before those votes, Christensen noted concerns that have been raised by some adjacent residential neighbors, including some who didn’t know when they bought or built their homes that some of the Irwin-Thomas area property was slated for gravel mining, and more recently, some questioning the location of the proposed Costco store.
However, the land uses that would change the developments contemplated in the original annexation would be “a higher and better” use for the Longmont community, Christensen said..
Also getting unanimous support from council members were new city collective bargaining agreements with the local chapters of police and firefighter unions, the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 6 and the International Association of Firefighters (IAPP) Local 1806.
The new contracts are for the 2022, 2023 and 2024 calendar years and set pay levels for each of those years.
There was no staff presentation Tuesday night and no council discussion of the two contracts before their unanimous 5-0 votes to approve each.
Chief Longmont Financial Officer Jim Golden said in a Monday email that the contract with Fraternal Order of Police’s (FOP) local lodge would mean 4% annual across-the board raises above start-of-2021 pay levels for each of the coming three years for the police division’s sworn officers, and 3% annual across-the-board raises for the division’s civilian personnel covered by the FOP contract.
Raises would vary by firefighters’ positions under the city’s contract with the International Association of Firefighters’ Longmont chapter, Golden said.
“Most firefighters and firefighter/paramedics are receiving a 6% increase” from start-of-2021 pay levels in 2022 under the agreements, he said. “Firefighter/Paramedic Step 3 is receiving a 4.79% increase; engineers are receiving a 7.17% increase; Firefighter/Engineer/Paramedic is receiving an 8.66% increase; Lieutenants will receive a 6.98% increase; and Captains receive a 6.72% increase. In 2023 and 2024 increases are 4% across the board.”
Earlier during Tuesday’s meeting, city staff and a representative of the Colorado Lottery celebrated in a special presentation the Lottery’s “2021 Starburst Award” recognition of Longmont’s use of $1.98 million in Colorado Conservation Trust Fund Lottery money to help pay the $5 million costs of renovating, improving and upgrading Garden Acres Community Park.
Colorado Lottery Public Outreach Manager Daniel Bewley congratulated Longmont “for your amazing work” on that project, adding later, “We are so proud to be a partner with you guys” on the improvements to the park at 2058 Spencer St.
By 9 p.m., City Council members had not yet considered another item on their Tuesday night agenda — a staff presentation on how Longmont might spend almost $13 million in federal COVID-19 funds to help city government and the community, its residents and businesses recover from the pandemic.
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