On January 6, 2026 Loveland City Council met to discuss the relocation of the City run homeless shelter.

"Proposed partnership model 
Under the proposed new model, the City would no longer directly operate overnight shelter services. Instead, like other municipalities across Colorado, Loveland would work with qualified nonprofit partners to provide shelter and resource services. 
To support this transition, City staff will present a proposal that includes a conditional $2.85 million offer to purchase a building at 599 71st Street in northwest Loveland. The facility could serve as a 24/7 Resource Center and overnight shelter operated by an experienced nonprofit provider identified through the City’s current Request for Proposals (RFP), which closes on Jan. 8, 2026. 
The proposed shelter site was identified after discussions with the community, including preliminary findings from Community Conversations held in September and October 2025, as well as input from council. The location offers several advantages: it is in an industrial area with no immediate residences nearby, is close to public transit and other services such as healthcare providers and the county’s mental health facility and is large enough to support both daytime services and overnight shelter operations. The purchase would move forward only if a qualified nonprofit operator is secured, and part of selecting that operator will include ensuring they work closely with the surrounding community so that expectations, rules, and ongoing communication support both the shelter’s success and local concerns. 
Funding for the potential acquisition would come from Capital Expansion Fees (CEFs) and the General Fund, with CEFs covering 96.6% of the cost and the remaining 3.4% ($95,989) coming from the General Fund. 
The City also plans to sell the current Loveland Resource Center (LRC) building — purchased in 2024 for $410,000 — with proceeds returning to the General Fund."

Please see an example of an attached counter-letter to said proposal from a local business:

"I am submitting this letter for the public record to formally and strongly oppose the City’s proposed purchase of property for use as a homeless shelter located at 599 71st Street in Loveland.

This proposal presents a clear and unacceptable risk to surrounding businesses and property owners. The introduction of a shelter at this site would negatively impact business operations, customer activity, safety perceptions, and long-term property values in an established commercial area. These impacts directly threaten economic stability and investment confidence.

Additionally, this location is incompatible with existing land use and places an unfair burden on nearby businesses without adequate mitigation, infrastructure, or demonstrated planning to address foreseeable consequences. Public and community engagement to date has been insufficient given the magnitude of the impact.

We urge the City Council to reject this purchase and pursue alternative solutions and locations that address homelessness without undermining existing businesses, property values, and the local tax base.

This objection is submitted respectfully but unequivocally for the official record."

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While beneficial to the City to no longer be fully responsible to run the shelter, bettering city finances, relocating to 71st would be a detriment to the community. The North Loveland business complex is a tight knit community, being that many of us have been well established for years, with the opportunity to have grown with one another. The atmosphere of our clientele speaks to the revenue we bring to the city, by operating in North Loveland. Business development is a core concept of Loveland's long term plans of growth and expansion. This shelter would inhibit continued economic growth to local businesses due to societal aversion of the shelter's proximity.

Aside from revenue, safety is also a factor to this location. Many of us look out for each other to make sure crime and suspicious activity do not rise in our community. Becoming a centralized hub for all shelter activities without any sort of support/security to the surrounding area greatens the risk substantially. 

The City states: "The location offers several advantages: it is in an industrial area with no immediate residences nearby, is close to public transit and other services such as healthcare providers and the county’s mental health facility and is large enough to support both daytime services and overnight shelter operations."

This also is not true to residencies as close as half a mile to the new proposed location, buses run through most of the town, the county mental health facility is closer by all of 6 minutes, and the area is not an industrial barren location to stick this future facility. 

With the construction and revitalization happening downtown, it can be perceived to see this as a gentrification tactic to take a public issue and place it elsewhere from the commodities of the current area. That being said, this is not to state that homeless individuals do not deserve a better facility and non-profit to take care of them. We are all human and deserve respect. This move proposed to the city is however, unwarranted and unwanted by the community it would be moving to. 

This petition has been created to display in public record for voices of the community who are strongly in opposition of the proposed move. Please sign it and share with the Loveland community if you are also in opposition and want to make your voices heard.