Tag: Arrowswest Apartments
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Controversial apartments near Garden of the Gods get City Council approval
The City Council on Tuesday approved divisive plans to build more than 220 apartments near Garden of the Gods Road, about three years after a previous council denied another apartment project across the street because they concluded it could make emergency evacuations more dangerous. “To have this decision after everything we have presented to you…
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Controversial apartments near Garden of the Gods get City Council approval
The City Council on Tuesday approved divisive plans to build more than 220 apartments near Garden of the Gods Road, about three years after a previous council denied another apartment project across the street because they concluded it could make emergency evacuations more dangerous. “To have this decision after everything we have presented to you…
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Colorado Springs delays vote on controversial apartments over zoning question
The Colorado Springs City Council delayed a vote Tuesday on the controversial Arrowswest Apartments along Garden of the Gods Road after residents raised a question the city staff couldn’t immediately answer about the property’s zoning. In the brief but heated meeting, City Councilman Dave Donelson also pointed out fellow board members have received campaign contributions…
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Controversial apartment project in Colorado Springs’ west side backed by planning commission
Hundreds of apartments are one step closer to being built in the Garden of the Gods corridor on Colorado Springs’ west side, plans neighbors said would defy a 2021 City Council finding that an increase in density in the area would detrimentally affect public safety. After technological issues delayed the Planning Commission’s meeting start by…
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Controversial Colorado Springs apartment development, Amara annexation each take steps forward
Plans to build thousands of homes on opposite sides of Colorado Springs – one project requiring more than 3,200 acres of sprawling prairie to first be annexed into the city – are one step closer to fruition. Arrowswest Apartments The board voted 7-2 Tuesday to recommend the City Council approve a request to rezone a…
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Amara annexation, contentious Colorado Springs apartment development on Planning Commission’s agenda Tuesday
The Colorado Springs Planning Commission on Tuesday will hear the proposed Amara annexation request as well as plans to build hundreds of apartments near Garden of the Gods Road, where previous concerns over emergency evacuations stopped a contentious apartment project in late 2021. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. at the Regional Development Center, 2880…