Year after quarry bought for return to Waldo Canyon, reclamation yet to begin gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In June 2019, Britt Haley of our city Parks Department told me via email:
“Rocky Mountain Field Institute estimates annual maintenance to the section of Barr Trail impacted by Incline return traffic to be approximately $40,000.”
The city of Manitou Springs has been doing the $40,000 in repairs per year on the Barr Trail since 2013, but the condition of the trail is worsening. The visible erosion damage on the hillside is worsening also.
Why have the drainage problems not been fixed yet?
They are causing new damage to the trail every year.
Sources have told me for a long time that a professionally prepared study is needed before the drainage modifications can be done.
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The city of Colorado Springs expects to break ground this spring on a completely redesigned 13-acre park near east Fountain Boulevard and Jet Wing Drive.
Images Courtesy of the city of Colorado Springs
Courtesy City of Colorado Springs
Courtesy city of Colorado Springs
Legalese has taken center stage in the debate regarding electric bikes on Colorado Springs trails.
In the latest Trails, Open Space and Parks (TOPS) meeting, members of the city committee heard disputes over federal and state definitions of the technology and local laws pertaining to non-motorized trails. The 1997 voter-approved TOPS ordinance, directing portions of sales tax revenue to preservation and outdoor recreation, mandated “[n]o motorized vehicles” on lands supported by those funds, “other than those necessary for maintenance, emergencies or safety.”
When informed last month of the administrative move to allow Class 1 e-bikes on all city trails where other bikes are allowed starting Memorial Day weekend as part of a year-long pilot program, members of the parks board asked: Wouldn’t motor-assisted bikes infringe on that ordinance?
Panorama Park groundbreaking expected next month amid several voter-approved parks projects gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.