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Site of proposed
Wal-Mart Supercenter
By DAVID RUISARD 3 --17 - 04
The Coloradoan
The Mulberry-Lemay
Crossings project still has
another hurdle to clear.
The eternally pending de-
velopment that would fea-
ture a Wal-Mart Super -
center will come before the
Fort Collins City Council
once again Tuesday night.
The proposed 375,000-
square-foot project is
planned for the northeast
corner of the Mulberry
Street/Lemay Avenue inter-
section. The project has
drawn the scorn of the Citi-
zens Against Regional Su-
percenters, or CARS, since it
Interested?
The Fort Collins City
Council will meet at 6
p.m. Tuesday at City
Hall, 300 LaPorte Ave.
The meeting also will be
broadcast on cable
Channel 27.
was proposed two years ago.
The Planning and Zoning
Board denied the project in
1998. Later that year, City
Council'turAed down devel-
oper Mark Goldberg's ap-
peal of that decision.
But Goldberg and his
vontmuee rrom rage nz saruy maze it true, ne said.
and it's really coming, to a head'= His group also opposes the
CARS spokesman CQary Cas es project based on its potential ef-
said. :+ fects on the Poudre River as well
Tuesday, the council will- vote as traffic issues at the Mulberry -
on the CARS appear:; s;r° Lemay intersection.
Carnes said voter` approval of Goldberg thinks his develop -
the project was an illegal substi- ment will win council approval.
tute for the planmn 'board's au- -Me project conforms to all the
thority, � a; standards and rules of the plan -
"We can 'vote on' the weather ning process," he said. "I just don't
and we can vote on the Earth be- know what else we should be do-
ing flat'. but that doesn't neces- ing."
backers did not give up.
They created a citizen -ini-
tiated ordinance to approve
the project's preliminary de-
sign. Voters approved the
ballot measure in 1999,
sending the project back to
the planning board.
Faced with an endorse-
ment f -om voters, the board
approved the project's final
design Jan. 20, prompting
yet another appeal to coun-
cil — this time by the oppo-
sition.
"I think we've reached a
real crisis in how we do
things here in Fort Collins,
See WAL-MART, Page A2
The location or the prujm;L,
Goldberg said, is an example of" -
"smart growth" because it is not;
along the outskirts of Fort
Collins.
"If (CARS members) really'
took the time to understand the -
project, they would see it is in line -
with the smart -growth concept,",.'
he said.
CARS already has threatened
the city with legal action over the
Wal-Mart issue.