The topics of housing and air quality dominated at a listening session Sunday with Fort Collins’ state Reps. Cathy Kipp and Andrew Boesenecker.
More than two dozen people showed up during their listening session at the Old Town Library to share concerns about those topics, along with a dozen more issues ranging from education and health care to property taxes and immigration.
Here are some of the highlights of the conversation, plus what Kipp and Boesenecker said is brewing at the state Capitol on key topics:
Air quality concerns
Kipp, chair of the House Energy & Environment Committee, said she is expecting quite a few bills related to the environment this session but not many have been filed so far and none of them are hers.
Members of the audience noted that Larimer County’s air quality is rated as among the worst in the nation and said more needs to be done to address the impacts that oil and gas production happening in neighboring Weld County, in particular, has on Larimer County.