Group sues to block distribution center land annexation, rezone

LOVELAND — A group called Workers for a Safe Larimer County sued the city of Loveland, its city council and city council members to block and redirect a land-annexation and rezoning process aiming toward the development of a large distribution center by Trammell Crow Co.

The issue involves 152 acres of unincorporated Larimer County land near Northern Colorado Regional Airport. The city’s effort to annex and rezone the land moved through a series of planning commission and council votes over the past several months. Some meetings including a neighborhood informational “town hall” type event via Zoom, saw little public or official…