Government & Politics  December 20, 2023

New petition forces Fort Collins council to again repeal its code changes

FORT COLLINS – For the second time in a year, a successful citizen-led petition drive has forced the Fort Collins City Council to repeal its approval of a massive rewrite of the city’s voluminous 25-year-old land-use code and go back to the drawing board.

Tuesday night’s 3-2 vote followed more than an hour and 20 minutes of comments from city residents, many of whom urged the council to instead choose the other option available to it under the city charter: submitting the revised code to a citywide vote sometime in 2024.

The council had faced the same charter-dictated choice in January when…

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With BizWest since 2012 and in Colorado since 1979, Dallas worked at the Longmont Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post and Public News Service. A Missouri native and Mizzou School of Journalism grad, Dallas started as a sports writer and outdoor columnist at the St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News, then went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before fleeing the heat and humidity for the Rockies. He especially loves covering our mountain communities.
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