Colorado Springs — The Colorado Springs City Council on January 16th heard public concerns about the request by Nor’wood Development Group and others to revisit the 1988 Banning Lewis Ranch
State Senators Bob Gardner (R-Dist. 12) and Owen Hill (R-Dist. 10), and State Representatives Larry Liston (R-Dist. 16) and Dave Williams (R-Dist.15) all of El Paso County, have submitted a bill to protect homeowners against squatters.
Colorado Springs City Council moves forward with rezoning of Banning Lewis Ranch.
Colorado Springs Utilities moves to close the Martin Drake power plant prematurely.
Neighbors from the beginning felt this was a completely incompatible use of the land. Particularly given there were other nearby choices that would not have had a negative impact. — Dave Kisker, one of the appellants.
“Isn’t the county acting as a judicial officer such as us if we remand something back to the trial court if there has been communication about the case between the counsel and the judge, isn’t that a problem?” Judge Diana Terry asked Weld County Attorney Bruce Barker about ex parte communications between Weld Commissioners and Martin Marietta, the applicant before the county in a land use case .
To define the ideal boundaries between state and local control, we should ignore the political hypocrites and weigh sound principles.
Inclusionary zoning modestly benefits a few chosen families, but it does nothing to make housing more broadly affordable. The legislature would be wise to avoid giving that authority to counties.
An example of Polis aiding anti-fracking activists came during the historic September 2013 floods — Polis legitimized the “ban fracking” activists by demanding a congressional hearing into the “toxic spills.”
Denver voters are predictably socialist when it comes to supporting professional sports. They’re happy to pay even though the prime beneficiaries are the private owners of the sports teams.
Clearly, anti-fracking activists in Colorado must be hoping public officials and the press can’t remember what happened two years ago.
Across the country, legislatures and the public have soundly and routinely rejected eminent domain for private development.
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