Preserve Fort Collins

07/03/2026

People own cars. Cars need to be parked near residences. So, no surprise here on this abysmal failure. Developers will make money whenever and wherever they can. Sometimes this is at the expense of the surrounding community, when a builder can externalize the cost of their project’s parking on the community.

Municipal planners should be responsible by acknowledging reality (cars exist) and not blindly follow the deluded Yimby cult.

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The embattled downtown San Jose residential tower is under new ownership as it begins its next chapter as a mixed-income building.

06/27/2026

If you're thinking about voting for candidates endorsed by the well-funded, astroturf, pro-deregulation YIMBY groups in Colorado and beyond, read this enlightening post and reconsider.

"The lack of affordable housing is a complex problem. And every complex problem, as the saying goes, has an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. In this instance, free market fundamentalism has long provided one such answer — the notion that invisible economic forces will solve affordable housing crises, if we only step aside, wait patiently, and let them work their magic. It has, of course, never worked out that way; but free-market apologists have always found a way to blame the world for its failure to conform to mechanistic economic models. This has kept their totalizing theories roaming the earth like zombies, providing intellectual cover for their policy application, and forever eluding the grave where bad ideas go to rot. And in recent years, these zombies have gotten a makeover and started to pop up in unexpected places."

"Is the YIMBY fever about to break? Maybe. In recent weeks, two papers have come out independently bucking the supposed YIMBY consensus, Buchholz et al. (2026) and Louie et al. (2025). "

The lack of affordable housing is a complex problem. And every complex problem, as the saying goes, has an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. In this instance, free market fundamentalism has…

06/23/2026

https://prospect.org/2026/06/12/new-documents-detail-nine-figure-silicon-valley-funded-abundance-movement/

There is a lot here, and this is a must read article. It explains (with facts from internal documentation) the money behind the push for massive data centers in Larimer county and YIMBY style densification in Fort Collins. In summary, the YIMBY movement and the "Abundance agenda" are both funded by tens (or even hundreds) of millions of dollars of money per year from Silicon Valley billionaires in support of their narrow interests.

These documents make clear the goal of these movements is additional 'abundance' for those that already have enough money to control our political process but will never be satisfied with the mere billions that they have.

The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.

05/05/2026

The Colorado Senate has finally pushed back against the House’s harmful Yimby crusade. This little victory for neighborhoods should be celebrated.  Let’s hear it for local control.

The Senate’s Local Government and Housing Committee voted in April to kill the proposals amid fierce resistance from local officials and some neighborhood groups

04/21/2026

"This was not just a simple repeal of ordinances. It was a referendum on how decisions are being made."

"A small, volunteer-driven grassroots effort just outperformed a well-funded, developer-backed campaign that poured more than $260,000 into shaping the outcome, backed by glossy mailers, paid TV commercials and endorsements from well-known political figures such as Brittany Pettersen and Ed Perlmutter, along with a range of councilmembers and organizations.

The materials circulated by the developer-backed campaign claimed the grassroots coalition was backed by dark money MAGA GOP groups, but that framing collapsed once people looked at the campaign finance reports. It read less like reality and more like a deflection, an attempt to shift attention away from where their funding was coming from — largely developer-backed money from outside Lakewood — while using national political rhetoric as a distraction from who was actually driving their side of the campaign.

What did hold up was a hard-fought grassroots effort, persistence and people paying attention. This was not the outcome anyone in the political or development playbook was counting on."

"This was not just a simple repeal of ordinances. It was a referendum on how decisions are being made."

04/09/2026

9News' Marshall Zelinger:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/961762213220774/?app=fbl

04/09/2026

"Lakewood voters strike down pro-density zoning as repeal campaign dominates"

Backers of the return to single-family zoning said they feared new rules would disrupt Lakewood's suburban character

04/09/2026

This is not just low, it’s historic.

Colorado snowpack is just 24% of normal statewide right now. The San Juans are at 14%, Gunnison 19%, and the South Platte (Denver water supply) 34%.

This is peak snowpack season and we’re nowhere close. Less snow now means less runoff and higher drought stress heading into summer.

What are you seeing where you live right now?