Author: Barbara Cotter
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West-siders to see patrols focused on crime, traffic
It was billed as the mayor’s town hall meeting, but Steve Bach gave several top city employees the floor Tuesday night to answer questions from a crowd of mostly west-siders and update them on policies and projects specific to their part of town. The conversation sometimes drifted to other topics — Banning-Lewis Ranch, fracking and…
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Groups want more public input on city redistricting
The first thing Dave Munger and Kristy Milligan want to make clear is that they think Colorado Springs City Clerk Sarah Johnson did just what she was supposed to last year in drawing the boundaries for six City Council districts: She followed the law. Their issue isn’t with her, but the law itself. They contend…
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Groups want more public input on city redistricting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The first thing Dave Munger and Kristy Milligan want to make clear is that they think Colorado Springs City Clerk Sarah Johnson did just what she was supposed to last year in drawing the boundaries…
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Panhandling law not dead, yet
A plan to carve out a no-solicitation zone in downtown Colorado Springs may be in critical condition, but it’s not dead — at least not yet.Colorado Springs City Council must decide whether to continue a court battle over the creation of a 12-square-block area downtown where panhandling and other forms of solicitation would be banned.…
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Creating a science museum getting closer and closer
Call them insane. Call them cockeyed optimists, or madcap dreamers. Even DeeAnn Rothstein acknowledges there was something a lttle bonkers about that day in 2007 when she and her husband, Steve, left their home in Montgomery, Ala., and pulled their minivan into Colorado Springs with their two kids and dogs in tow, with one purpose:…
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City to work with PPACG on regional bike trail plan
Colorado Springs is setting off on an ambitious path to improve the city’s bike trails and biking infrastructure, working in tandem with a regional group to form a seamless, coordinated “nonmotorized transportation” system in the Pikes Peak region. The city’s master bike plan, which focuses on on-street use, hasn’t been updated since the mid-’90s; its…
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City to work with PPACG on regional bike trail plan
Colorado Springs is setting off on an ambitious path to improve the city’s bike trails and biking infrastructure, working in tandem with a regional group to form a seamless, coordinated “nonmotorized transportation” system in the Pikes Peak region. The city’s master bike plan, which focuses on on-street use, hasn’t been updated since the mid-’90s; its…
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Voters to decide whether council will get pay raise
An eleventh-hour push to keep a City Council pay-raise measure off the April ballot failed Tuesday, and now it will be up to voters to decide whether council members’ compensation will jump to $48,000 a year, up from $6,250. Councilman Tim Leigh made a motion to withdraw the proposal and instead, wait for a full…
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Springs City Council hears about too little and too much water
Colorado Springs City Council was flooded with information Monday about two significant water-related issues in the area — one dealing with the fallout from too much water, the other tied to the problem of not having enough. During the council’s informal meeting, officials from Colorado Springs Utilities laid out a comprehensive plan to reduce demand…
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20-foot rule stands in panhandling ordinance, judge says
Get out the tape measure if you plan to panhandle in Colorado Springs. Earlier this week, a federal judge in Denver clarified that her preliminary injunction involving a controversial panhandling ordinance applies only to the part that would create a no-solicitation zone in a 12-square-block area of downtown. But the portion of the ordinance that…