9.  Ballot Initiative 200

Following the end of the Northeast Fort Collins Truck Route Project, a citizen initiative was placed on the November 1999 ballot. Initiative 200 called for the City of Fort Collins to stop examining possible alternative truck routes within the city growth boundary. It instead mandated that any future efforts only look at alternative routes located a minimum of two miles north of the current Growth Management Area boundary. It also called for the city to examine strategies to encourage through truck traffic to utilize the existing I-25/I-80 interstate highway system, rather than the SH 14/US 287 route favored by many trucks traveling in the Fort Collins area. The ballot initiative was passed.