Author: Bob Loevy
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City Planning Commission applies mixed-use commercial zoning in residential area | Bob Loevy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save By a vote of 8 to 1, the city Planning Commission recently approved MX-N (mixed-use commercial) zoning in a residential block of the Old North End neighborhood that currently contains only one-family and two-family housing.…
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The first four years of Historic Neighborhood Partnership
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Historic Neighborhoods Partnership, an alliance of Colorado Springs volunteer homeowners’ associations, is now four years old. It supports the efforts of neighborhoods to preserve their present character and maintain themselves as desirable urban places to live. HNP began in 2021 with conversations between Monica Hobbs,…
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Trump storms the Capitol — and gives mixed signals | CRONIN & LOEVY
Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy President Donald Trump is his own biggest cheerleader. He loves campaigning and he loves being a promoter — a promoter with multiple deals and multiple programs. He gave a lengthy, program-filled, blame-heavy, comeback-kid performance last Tuesday at the “Capitol Theater” in Washington, D.C. It broke the…
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Think twice before allowing two accessory dwelling units behind every single-family home | Bob Loevy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The many volunteer homeowner associations that surround downtown Colorado Springs are organizing to strenuously resist changes to single-family zoning being proposed by the city government. Among those associations is the Old North End Neighborhood, located between Colorado College and Penrose Hospital along North Cascade and…
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Open space acquisition in Colorado Springs: Memories of the early days | Cronin and Loevy
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It was good news last April when the voters of Colorado Springs renewed the TOPS (Trails, Open Space and Parks) sales tax. For only one cent out of every $10 spent, $11,000,000 per year is raised to buy additional lands for open space and parks in our city. It was not always that way. Almost…
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PRINT Open space acquisition in Colorado Springs: Memories of the early days (copy)
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It was good news last April when the voters of Colorado Springs renewed the TOPS (Trails, Open Space and Parks) sales tax. For only 1 cent out of every $10 spent, $11,000,000 per year is raised to buy additional lands for open space and parks in our city. It was not always that way. Almost…
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PRINT Bob Loevy: Family summers in a vacation home in late 19th-century Manitou Springs (copy)
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The Manitou Springs Archive Team has begun a search for stories and photographs concerning the history of Manitou Springs, the city just to the west of Colorado Springs in the foothills of Pikes Peak. Here is my contribution to that search: My great uncle, Archibald Llewellyn Williams, lived in Topeka, Kan., but loved the Colorado…
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Family summers in a vacation home in late 19th-century Manitou Springs | Bob Loevy
The Manitou Springs Archive Team has begun a search for stories and photographs concerning the history of Manitou Springs, the city just to the west of Colorado Springs in the foothills of Pikes Peak. Here is my contribution to that search: My great uncle, Archibald Llewellyn Williams, lived in Topeka, Kan., but loved the Colorado…
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PRINT Documentary: How Trump won in 2016, and could again in 2024 (copy)
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“The Accidental President” is an American-made low-budget documentary film by British filmmaker James Fletcher. It explains how businessman Donald J. Trump captured the Republican Party’s presidential nomination and beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 to become president. By majority rule, Hillary Clinton won. She captured 3 million more votes than Trump did, but he prevailed in…
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Documentary: How Trump won in 2016, and could again in 2024 | Cronin and Loevy
“The Accidental President” is an American-made low-budget documentary film by British filmmaker James Fletcher. It explains how businessman Donald J. Trump captured the Republican Party’s presidential nomination and beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 to become president. By majority rule, Hillary Clinton won. She captured 3 million more votes than Trump did, but he prevailed in…