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City Council members at the City Council meeting on Nov. 7th. (Jordan Reyes | Collegian)

Fort Collins City Council approves first reading of affordable, mixed-use housing ordinance

Audrey Weiss • February 21, 2018

Fort Collins City Council discussed affordable housing by means of the Land Bank Program Tuesday night. Sue Beck-Ferkiss, a social sustainability specialist, introduced the topic, known as ordinance...

Rory Heath, a CSU alumni, speaks at Fort Collins City Council Tuesday night. Heath is appealing the potential new student housing complex, The Union on Elizabeth. (Erica Giesenagen | Collegian)

Fort Collins City Council rejects appeal of Union on West Elizabeth apartment complex

Samantha Ye • February 14, 2018

The development of the Union on Elizabeth will go forward as planned. The Fort Collins City Council rejected an appeal of the Planning and Zoning Board’s approval of the development on the intersection...

Colorado retail marijuana industry continues to grow with increasing sales

Colorado retail marijuana industry continues to grow with increasing sales

Carson Lipe • February 14, 2018

After five years of legalization, cannabis science and industry continues to grow, with Colorado marijuana sales earning over $1.5 billion for the calendar year of 2017 and earning nearly $4.5 billion...

Cars are parked along Meldrum St. just north of campus in a neighborhood that uses the Residential Parking Permit Program. The program is designed to make Fort Collins neighborhoods safe and keep the streets less congested. It increases the amount of street parking available to residents and guests while still allowing space for other people who may need to park along the street. (Joe Oakman | Collegian).

Despite increasing population, Fort Collins residential parking permits not expected to expand

Audrey Weiss • February 14, 2018

Video by Ira Weiss The Fort Collins population is expected to grow by 107 percent by 2050, but with dramatic growth comes implications. Specifically, parking has been impacted, not only by the...

Michael Leon Guerrero sits and discusses a few stories on how he got into the sustainability side of the world on February 12th 2018 at Avogadro's Number off of S Mason St. Guerrero, is the Executive Director for the Labor Network for Sustainability organization and gave a speech on how to "make a living on a living planet." (Javon Harris | Collegian)

Michael Guerrero discusses labor, climate justice at Avogadro’s Number

Pat Conrey • February 13, 2018

Avogadro's Number invited Michael Leon Guerrero to speak Monday evening about the impact climate change will have on the world's work industries. According to the United Nations, the world population...

The human trafficking demand reduction operation that arrested eight people was conducted on a portion of I-25 near Fort Collins. (Jack Starkebaum | Collegian)

Car crash kills two, injures two in Fort Collins

Carson Lipe • February 11, 2018

Two people were killed and two people were injured in a car crash on Sunday afternoon at the intersection of Harmony Road and Hinsdale Drive in Fort Collins. Fort Collins Police Services were notified...

Ross Cunniff, District 5 City Council member of Fort Collins, holds a listening session focused on students on Feb. 8. (Ashley Potts | Collegian)

City Councilman Ross Cunniff seeks CSU student perspective

Audrey Weiss • February 9, 2018

City Councilman Ross Cunniff is looking to connect with students at Colorado State University on issues the City of Fort Collins faces. Some of Cunniff’s main topics of interest he hopes to gain...

Nearly 200 Colorado State University students paint the A above Hughes Stadium, August 27, 2011. CSU Photography: 23014_10953

Hughes Stadium property approved to be annexed to City, CSU decides

Erin Douglas • February 8, 2018
Hughes Stadium and its surrounding 162 acres of property can be annexed to the City of Fort Collins, the Colorado State University Board of Governors decided Thursday afternoon. The board voted to authorize the submission of a petition for the annexation of the property—a move that represents the first step in the process of redevelopment for the area.
A community panel discussion at Avogadro's Number took place Wednesday night to discuss concerns about the reintroduction of wolf species in Colorado. The panel consisted of Phil Cafaro, a CSU philosophy professor, Rick Knight, a Human Dimensions of Natural Resources CSU professor, Valerie Johnson, a stem cell researcher and wolf sanctuary volunteer, and Dana Hoag, an agricultural and resource economics professor at CSU. (Photo by Olive Ancell | Collegian)

CSU professors discuss if the wolf is friend or foe

Pat Conrey • February 8, 2018

Opposing opinions were heard in a panel that opened the conversation about the reintroduction of wolves in Colorado. On Wednesday night Avogadro’s Number was the place where four panelists sat together...

Noah Beals, Jeremy Call and Todd Messenger take question related to digital billboard dwell time. Here they listened to a variety of opinions on how long each ad should be shown on a billboard.(Vinny Del Conte | Collegian)

Fort Collins sign code meetings brings community, businesses together

Austin Fleskes • February 8, 2018

Both community members and business employees gathered in the Drake Centre on Feb. 7 to discuss the current code for signs in Fort Collins, and discuss the opinions of the community to see how sign codes...

Fort Collins City Council (Davis Bonner | Collegian)

Fort Collins awards SAVA Center for work with sexual assault survivors

Samantha Ye • February 8, 2018

2017 saw major shifts in the discussion sexual assault and harassment. From the breakout of the Weinstein scandal to the emergence of the #MeToo movement, national discourse began to focus on the...

Macy Dallas waits in line to speak out about the new lockers during the Fort Collins City Council meeting February 6, 2018. (Anna Baize | Collegian)

Fort Collins City Council votes against funding 20 lockers for homeless

Samantha Ye • February 7, 2018

The City will not be funding lockers at the Fort Collins Mennonite Fellowship for the homeless population. A motion to provide roughly $10,500 for the locker program at FCMF failed six to one at Tuesday...

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