Capital Improvement Plan (CIP)

part of the Plan Fort Collins 2011 Update

The transportation Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) was updated using an inter-disciplinary team and “triple bottom line” approach that includes environmental, economic, and social factors as project prioritization criteria in conjunction with the traditional transportation criteria.

The 2010-11 CIP includes an updated list of projects and anticipated transportation revenue over time from existing/known sources of funding. As a new element of the CIP update, a short-term (5-6 year) CIP was created, which highlights a top tier project list based on the highest ranking projects from all of the transportation categories. Projects are evaluated over a consistent time frame: e.g., signal timing improvements may have an effective life of 3 years, where as a new bridge will have a life of 50+ years.