Divided Fort Collins council OKs stadium pact with CSU

FORT COLLINS — A sharply divided Fort Collins City Council – reflecting the heated debate that has gripped the city and the campus of Colorado State University it surrounds – voted 4-3 on Tuesday night to approve an amended intergovernmental agreement between the city and school about the impacts of CSU’s planned on-campus football stadium.

The vote – with council members Ross Cunniff, Bob Overbeck and Lisa Poppaw opposed – came after 37 people trooped to the public microphones to plead with the council to delay, rethink or flat-out reject an agreement that they blasted as “nonbinding,” “wishy-washy” and full of…