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Home My WebLink AboutNEW BELGIUM BREWERY - OVERALL DEVELOPMENT PLAN - 1-95C - MEDIA -P&Z panel OKs plans for bigger brewe Neighbors worry about expanded New Belgium. By JENN FARRELL our Hispanic heritage- JennFarrell@coloradoan.com "1 feel, in all honesty, this New Belgium Brewing brewery should never have Co. moved a step closer to come into our neighborhood." expanding Thursday night. The Matrixx nightclub is The Fort Collins planning at 450 Linden Center Drive, and Zoning Board unani- and there are other breweries mously approved the overall in the northeast part of Fort development plan for the Collins, Egon spoke out brewery, which includes a While water treatment facility and against the expansion, community center as well as Cherie Willey, who lives in brewery expansion. Mem- the area, had concerns about bers Judy Meyer, Jerry Gaval- traffic and landscaping. She don, Jennifer Carpenter and said she hoped the brewery Daniel Bemth, voted yes on would landscape the expan- the expansion plan. Some sion as nicely as the current neighbors voiced opposition, area is landscaped and asked and others had questions what could be done to mini - about the development mite traffic. The 49-acre site in north A sign at the facility al - Fort Collins is zoned industri- ready directs truck neighborhood al, and the brewery's pro- Y from posed expansion fits with that streets, said New Belgium zoning, Gavaldon said. He rer co-owner Kim Jordan. ornmended that, as the expan- The community center sion gets under way. Bucking- would be available both to ham and Andersonville neigh- the brewery and to the borhood residents and New neighborhood, said Angela Belgium work together to Milewski, landscape archi- benefit the community. test with BHA Design, which "How manyother neigh- is working on the project borhoods in Fort Collins In addition, she said, New have two breweries and a Belgium donates $1 of every nightclub in their back yard?" barrel produced to charity asked Betty Aragon, who and is a big supporter of en - presented a petition against vironmental programs such the expansion signed by 123 as wind power and recycling. people from the Buckingham "New Belgium isn t try - and Andersonville neighbor- ing to turn their backs on hoods "We are here to pro- the neighborhood,- Milews- tect the neighborhoods and ki said. New Belgium Brewery looks at increasing its facilities Current site of vine Drive ,M,.i New Belgium ji, San Cristo Street i Buckingham Street aec d ; I Colo radoan st