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<br />anticipates a build-out population of about 47,000 people by the year 2030. The growth <br />projected by the City of Fort Collins within ELCO's service area is equivalent to an <br />average annual increase of about 570 accounts. <br /> <br />The rate of growth projected by the City of Fort Collins seems high, but is not <br />unprecedented. FCLWD, another special district that serves Fort Collins residents in <br />the southern part of the City, saw the number of accounts it served increase from 3,984 <br />to 12,960 between 1991 and 2005. That increase equates to an average annual growth <br />rate of 8.8010 or an additional 630 accounts per year. <br /> <br />Projections of future water use are based on the amount of undeveloped land within <br />ELCO's service area and water-use factors assigned to future accounts or the number <br />of acres zoned for specific uses. Single family and mobile home water use was based <br />on ELCO's annual water allotment established in its "Raw Water Requirements and PIF <br />Schedule." Allotments for single family homes are based on lot size. <br /> <br />ELCO lacked a sufficient number of customer accounts to establish the water use of <br />commercial, employment, industrial, and multi-family areas developed under urban <br />criteria. The few customers ELCO currently serves in those categories are in older, <br />established county subdivisions. The City of Fort Collins has much different <br />development standards than Larimer County. City standards require extensive <br />landscaping and building facades that attract higher end retailers and employers. <br />Without data of its own to project future water demands in non-residential City <br />developments, ELCO relied on water use studies performed by the City of Greeley in its <br />2003 Water Master Plan. Water use data developed by Greeley and used by ELCO to <br />project future water demands for different types of developments are summarized in <br />Table 4.2. <br /> <br />Table 4.2 - Water Demands in Different Land Use Categories <br /> <br />land Use Projected Water Demand (1) <br />Commercial 2.3 acre feet per acre <br />Employment 2.3 acre feet per acre <br />Industrial 1 .6 acre feet per acre <br />Multi-Family 4.0 acre feet per acre <br /> <br />(1) Source: City of Greeley Water Master Plan (2003) <br /> <br />With future land use within the majority of ELCO's service area established in the City of <br />Fort Collins BLI, the future water demand of District customers was relatively easy to <br />estimate. Figure 4.7 shows the District's actual water demand between 1999 and 2006, <br /> <br />Clear Water Solutions, Inc. <br />East Larimer County Water District <br /> <br />2007 Water Conservation Plan <br /> <br />37 <br />