So much for the city’s recently adopted Strategic Plan on how the city of Colorado Springs is going to move forward. Surprise: all of a sudden our municipal governing body realizes it has too many infrastructure projects planned as a part of their second vote on the Amara annexation. Wouldn’t you have thought a strategic plan would address infrastructure growth and fiscal responsibility eliminating these surprises.
Perhaps it is time to scrap the plan and start with one that addresses acceptable city expansion corridors, building height limits and future density of downtown development to just name a few. As a side note, it would also be nice for the city to address the discontinuance of decorative lawns in new developments so as to conserve water. I recently observed the newly constructed Lexus Dealership near University Village install decorative lawn on its eastern perimeter.
Not a great idea if we need to conserve water. Alan Goins Colorado Springs I recently returned from a bucket list trip to the East Coast: Cooperstown N.Y.
,(Hall of Fame induction ceremony), New York City, Philadelphia and Atlantic City. As it was my first time visiting, I was in awe of the beauty of upstate New York, the one and only Big Apple, Yankee Stadium, Philadelphia, the birthplace of our nation and the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Among all of this, I was in awe of how nice the roads were.
Compared with Colorado Springs, it was perceptible. This November, voters will decide to extend the sa.