FoCo council postpones consideration of new rental program
FORT COLLINS – Reacting to staunch opposition from members of the public and philosophical questions about the role of government, the Fort Collins City Council, in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, voted 6-1 to postpone indefinitely a first-reading vote on a citywide rental-housing program that would have mandated registration and periodic city inspections of rental units.
The vote, with only council member Kelly Ohlson dissenting, came at nearly 1 a.m. Wednesday in the seventh hour of a marathon meeting in which more than 100 members of the public took turns at the microphones in council chambers, mostly supporting or opposing…
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