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Board members spent well over an hour Friday in a private executive session on real estate issues, but no significant Hughes Stadium-related actions were taken.
The board of governors stressed that it maintains the right to manage state-owned property and plans to move forward with its Site Plan Advisory Review process, a bureaucratic exercise launched in 2020.
On April 6, Fort Collins voters overwhelmingly approved a citizen-led initiative directing the city to make a good-faith effort to buy the 165-acre site from the CSU System to be used “for parks, recreation, and open lands, natural areas, and wildlife rescue and restoration,” according to the ballot language.
While the board recognized council had little choice given the vote, it publicly noted its opposition to the zoning and said the action denied the board as a landowner, the economically viable use of the property and diminishes its fair market value.
The board reiterated that it reserves any and all authority under state law to manage its state-owned property and intends to move forward with the SPAR process that it initiated with the city in 2020.
As a state entity, CSU does not have to go through the city s regular development review process. Instead, it goes through a Site Plan Advisory Review, or SPAR, that essentially invites the city to weigh in on a project but gives it no actual authority to approve or reject it.
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