Motor-vehicle registrations begin to slow

While the furious pace of growth along the Front Range continues, there are signs that it is slowing down or at least beginning to concentrate in different areas.

Motor-vehicle registrations statewide stood at 3.96 million at the end of 1997. That represents a 3.1 percent increase over the 1996 year-end total of 3.84 million.

Those figures indicate that the state’s economy continued to cruise along at a healthy clip entering this year. However, Northern Colorado showed evidence of an even more dramatic increase.

According to figures supplied by Lori Kettler of the registration section, Larimer County posted a 4.1 percent increase from 221,201…