Re: travel bans
Letter writer Gary Pax (March 4) worries about banning Texas visitors, because Texas isn’t forcing healthy people to wear masks, whose protection of the wearers is dubious at best.
Funny how liberals ignore the thousands of diseased COVID-19-carrying foreigners Tsar Joey is enticing to and releasing into our country.
During a pandemic with millions of U.S. citizens unemployed, our benighted president opens our borders to the world. How globally conscious of him.
Of course, Joey doesn’t have any ulterior motives, like turning millions of illegal aliens into Democrat voters. Nikita Kruschev was right, we will destroy ourselves from within.
Neo Studio Architects
Carbondale’s town trustees gave the thumbs-up Tuesday night to the new Carbondale Center Place mixed-use development near the intersection of Colorado Highway 133 and Main Street.
The plan calls for 76 residential rental units, a three-story expansion of the existing Sopris Self-Storage business and 10,000 square feet of commercial/retail space.
It was approved on a 6-1 vote of the town Board of Trustees following a public hearing at the board’s regular Tuesday meeting.
The redevelopment is to replace the existing 30,000-square-foot Sopris Shopping Center at the corner of Highway 133 and Colorado Avenue and the adjacent self-storage facility to the east.
John Stroud/Post Independent
Several Carbondale businesses are scrambling to relocate and others are just plain calling it quits following plans for one of the town’s oldest strip malls to be redeveloped.
The proposed new Carbondale Center Place was given preliminary approval Jan. 14 by the town’s Planning & Zoning Commission, and is slated to go before the Board of Trustees for final consideration on Feb. 9.
It would replace the existing 57-year-old Sopris Shopping Center at the corner of Colorado Highway 133 and Colorado Avenue with a mix of 10,000 square feet of ground-level commercial space, 76 residential units and a new 68,000 square-foot self-storage facility where the existing Sopris Self Storage is now located, immediately east of the plaza.
Be vigilant in your COVID safety protocols
We are in the midst of a public health emergency. Science does not fabricate the severity of this pandemic. In what world are restaurants, gyms and retail businesses considered “critical” as our county commissioners suggest? Critical businesses mean grocers, pharmacies, health care facilities and utilities. If there is not compliance among the public after the endless messages on how to contain the coronavirus spread, the county deserves to be in a shutdown. With rising cases following Thanksgiving 700 new cases in the past two weeks what will Christmas bring? More of the same I fear. Until a vaccine is available to all, people must be vigilant in their hygiene, wearing masks, avoiding groups and practicing safe distancing. This is not an issue of personal freedoms because I am not free to infect you nor are you free to infect me.