FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Fort Collins City Council is grabbing the Hughes Stadium rezoning process by the horns, an unusual move that might set a precedent for city leaders' future involvement in the redevelopment of high-priority land parcels.
City staff will apply for the former stadium site's rezoning on behalf of the city and recommend how the land on the edge of the foothills should be zoned to city council and the Planning and Zoning Board, council decided in a 4-2 vote Tuesday.
Fort Collins annexed the 165-acre site west of Overland Trail and north of Larimer County Road 32 in October, and Colorado State University is under contract to sell the land to developer Lennar Homes for more than $10 million. Lennar Homes is the second-largest home builder in the U.S.
Read more at the Fort Collins Coloradoan: https://on9news.tv/2LZDxTw.
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