An ongoing effort to improve Cottonwood Pass, a popular alternative route when Interstate 70 closes through Glenwood Canyon, was addressed by Garfield County commissioners and Colorado Department of Transportation officials on Monday. CDOT Program Engineer.
A Missouri Heights neighborhood group who successfully fought a summer camp proposal last year wants to be heard sooner rather than later as state and county officials begin planning improvements to Cottonwood Pass.
A Missouri Heights neighborhood group that successfully fought a summer camp proposal last year wants to be heard sooner rather than later as state and county officials begin planning improvements to Cottonwood Pass.
Ascendigo opponents presented strong, truthful case
I participated in the recent three-day hearing on the Ascendigo project proposed for Missouri Heights. Over 620 residents signed a petition to stop this nonconforming commercial enterprise from being built in the middle of our rural residential zoned area. We tried to express our well-founded concerns about the project. We have been called ugly names, have spent hundreds of hours reviewing documents trying to ascertain the truth, and have had to raise thousands of dollars to establish the facts around the serious threats it poses to our environment.
We presented a strong, truthful case to deny the application on both the facts and the applicable law to the Board of County Commissioners. Our case included testimony of experts with no previous relationship to Ascendigo or their board members and detailed the real-world consequences we will suffer mining of our already stressed aquifer, increased exposure to wildfire, tripling of
Chelsea Self / Post Independent
Armed with several potential extra conditions of approval meant to help appease neighborhood concerns about the proposed Ascendigo children’s autism camp in Missouri Heights, and after several more hours of public comments Wednesday, Garfield County commissioners were in no hurry to make a decision.
Toward the end of the third day of the public land-use hearing, commissioners closed the public comments portion of the hearing but continued their deliberation until 8 a.m. Monday.
After an extra four days to review technical documents, staff-recommended conditions and hundreds of both oral and written public comments, the three commissioners hope to make a final decision Monday morning.