Carpet store sues to stop development of self-storage site in south Fort Collins

FORT COLLINS — The companies behind the Carpet Exchange store in Fort Collins are suing the city and Pittsburgh-based Guardian Self Storage in an effort to stop the company from building a new storage site along South College Avenue.

In a complaint filed Wednesday in Larimer County District Court, Carpet Exchange claims that Fort Collins’ planning and zoning board granted Guardian’s proposal to build a three-story storage building directly south of Carpet Exchange’s building even though the zoning on the parcel prohibits ground-floor storage.

Guardian first submitted plans to build a three-story, 119,300-square-foot storage site at the northeast corner of South…