Hughes Stadium: Negotiations for the land to begin next month

FORT COLLINS — The city of Fort Collins and the Colorado State University System appear ready to return to the negotiating table over the Hughes Stadium property after voters in overwhelming numbers this week directed the city to try to acquire the land for open space.

Now comes the hard part: Finding a solution to the question of whether the 161-acre parcel will be developed into a neighborhood with some open space or transformed entirely into open land, that stalemated the City Council last summer.

In its comments after the results, the CSU System said that while it…