SUBJECT: General Business
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Continued Public Hearing: An Ordinance of the Board of Trustees Repealing and Reenacting Section 10-6-14 of the Erie Municipal Code, Regarding Development and Design Standards Relating to Oil and Gas Facilities and Locations
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DEPARTMENT: Planning & Development
PRESENTER: David Frank, Energy & Environmental Program Specialist
Deborah Bachelder, Planning Manager
David Baumgarten, Oil and Gas Attorney
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Approve adoption of an Ordinance repealing and reenacting Section 10-6-14 of the Erie Municipal Code.
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SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND OF SUBJECT MATTER:
Oil and Gas Legal Counsel, in association with staff review and suggestions, has prepared an Ordinance amending Section 10-6-14 of the Unified Development Code that currently establishes setbacks of future platted lots from various existing or planned Oil and Gas facilities. The ordinance provides setbacks from oil and gas facilities that are the result of previous study session discussions, Planning Commission meetings, and public listening sessions where comments from both residents and the development community were received. The goal of the revised ordinance is to protect the public health, safety, and welfare of the Town by increasing the current setbacks for future platted lots while minimizing negative impacts to potential future development and inform potential land purchasers of the presence of oil and gas facilities by requiring the seller of a lot to disclose the locations of all oil and gas facilities or plugged and abandoned wells within 2,000 feet of the lot.
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Ordinance 41-2021 amending Section 10-6-14 of the Unified Development Code
2. Ordinance amending Section 10-6-14 of the Unified Development Code, with changes from previous draft redlined
3. Staff Report
4. Planning Commission Resolution P21-20
5. Planning Commission 17 November 2021 meeting minutes
6. Presentation of Revised Ordinance 10-6-14 of UDC
7. Public Comments