FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Residents' collective desire to stop a controversial Mormon temple from building in their southeast Fort Collins neighborhood is probably not enough to trump private property rights, city planners told residents.
About three dozen residents living in the Westchase neighborhood attended a briefing by Fort Collins current planning staff on the process it will use in reviewing a potential annexation and development proposal by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
While no formal application has been filed, the LDS church has told the city it wants to build a two-story, 27,000-square-foot temple with an additional steeple and 275 parking spaces on 18 acres now owned by Wayne and Janice Leistikow at the southeast corner of South Timberline and Trilby roads.
