Fort Collins council to consider issuing $200,000 to help residents buy mobile-home park

FORT COLLINS — The Fort Collins City Council will discuss whether to commit $200,000 in funding to the residents of Hickory Village Mobile Home Park who wish to buy the property, a move that may set a precedent for other citizens in similar positions.

Residents in the park on the far-north side of town are seeking to provide a competing bid after a corporate mobile-home park operator agreed to take on the 205-unit property for $23 million in March. Those residents elected a formal co-op board, which would be in charge of seeking financing for a separate offer alongside an affordable-housing…