Fort Collins tax measure deserves community support

Those who question the path that Fort Collins has taken in its most recent decades of development have but to make one decision in the next several weeks that could change this community forever – and for the better.

Fort Collins voters will decide April 8 – and before that for mail-in ballots – whether to support the proposed $124 million Building Community Choices capital-improvement program. We believe they should.

A business newspaper does not take issues of taxation lightly, nor do we support public-works projects for their own sake. Our endorsement of Building Community Choices, rather, comes only after careful consideration…