To: Fort Collins City Council and The Colorado State House
It's time to take responsibility and study the real impacts to our community if an on-campus stad...
Over the course of the summer and fall of 2012, Save our Stadium Hughes (SOSH) gathered 10,000 signatures in Fort Collins opposing the construction of a new on-campus football stadium in favor of the continued use of CSU Hughes Stadium. In October 2012, CSU decided to go forward with the design and development of a new stadium, despite hearing massive opposition to this stadium from residents in nearby neighborhoods.
In addition to residential disapproval, CSU’s Associated Students of CSU (ASCSU) 2012 survey of students showed that 67% opposed a new stadium at CSU.
A new on-campus stadium with 36,000 seats, carrying a price tag close to 300 million dollars is wasteful and unnecessary, especially when a 32,500- seat stadium at Hughes already exists.
A new stadium will bring unknown consequences and financial damages to the city of Fort Collins. Why? Because the local taxpayers will have to foot the bill for any infrastructure that CSU does not consider to be it’s “fair share.” Consider the plight of the city of Waco, TX — they had to kick in $35 million to build the necessary infrastructure for Baylor University’s new on-campus football stadium!
In 1999 Fort Collins was among the first communities in the nation to commit to a Climate Action plan that included reducing local emissions to meet green house gas goals: (a) by 2020, reduce emissions to 20% below 2005 levels and (b) by 2050, reduce them to 80% below 2005 levels. However, Fort Collins City Council has not done a carbon footprint study on the construction of a new on-campus stadium nor a traffic study to determine how this project will affect the Climate Action plan they agreed to.
In addition to residential disapproval, CSU’s Associated Students of CSU (ASCSU) 2012 survey of students showed that 67% opposed a new stadium at CSU.
A new on-campus stadium with 36,000 seats, carrying a price tag close to 300 million dollars is wasteful and unnecessary, especially when a 32,500- seat stadium at Hughes already exists.
A new stadium will bring unknown consequences and financial damages to the city of Fort Collins. Why? Because the local taxpayers will have to foot the bill for any infrastructure that CSU does not consider to be it’s “fair share.” Consider the plight of the city of Waco, TX — they had to kick in $35 million to build the necessary infrastructure for Baylor University’s new on-campus football stadium!
In 1999 Fort Collins was among the first communities in the nation to commit to a Climate Action plan that included reducing local emissions to meet green house gas goals: (a) by 2020, reduce emissions to 20% below 2005 levels and (b) by 2050, reduce them to 80% below 2005 levels. However, Fort Collins City Council has not done a carbon footprint study on the construction of a new on-campus stadium nor a traffic study to determine how this project will affect the Climate Action plan they agreed to.
Why is this important?
Tell the Fort Collins City Council and the State of Colorado to do financial, economic and environmental impact studies of the proposed new on-campus stadium at CSU in Fort Collins to help safeguard the wellbeing of our community.