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Department of Community Development
Reference: Frontage Gathering System CUP
To: Mayor Kenneth J. Kreutzer and Members of City Council
Through: Philip Rodriguez - City Manager
Marv Falconburg, AICP - Assistant City Manager
Holly Prather, AICP - Community Development Director
Prepared By: Joshua M. Tetzlaff, AICP - Associate City Planner
Date Prepared: June 26, 2018
PURPOSE
This Conditional Use Permit application for a pair of natural gas and oil pipelines in northeast Brighton is being brought before the City Council for review. The applicant is Stephen Sullivan of Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley, P.C. Per Section 17-8-60 of the City of Brighton Land Use and Development Code, an application seeking a Conditional Use Permit must be presented before the City Council at a public hearing. Following the public hearing, Council shall provide by resolution an approval or denial of the request, including if the Council wishes to add any conditions specific to the application.
STRATEGIC PLAN FRAMEWORK
Supportive, Sustainable Infrastructure
BACKGROUND
These two pipelines, to be owned by Petro Operating Company, LLC, are proposed to cross through land over which the City of Brighton has jurisdiction. These pipelines will originate from the Homestead Wellpad in northeast Brighton and carry resources north for processing. The property these pipelines are proposing to be located on was annexed into the City in 1991, as part of an annexation that brought in quite a bit of Weld County property. The property is currently zoned as A/R Agricultural/Residential, which is designed for agricultural uses and very low density housing accompanies the agricultural uses.
The Applicant has agreed to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), setting forth the conditions under which the Pipeline project will be undertaken, and has further agreed that execution of said MOU is a material condition of the City approval of the application.
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