What the city is deciding
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By Dec 8Recall petition, District 3. Brandy Williams is our councilwoman. Three residents filed to recall her, and the city approved the petition October 13. They need 4,350 valid signatures by December 8 for the April ballot. They say she doesn't answer residents and that she voted to dissolve the OCC development authority. She disputes it. We don't say how to vote. We'll print where the petition is and what it says.New since 2026-10-11
The city's own page: City Clerk, elections
Still looking for: the petition text and where it is being circulated
In the news: Gazette, Oct 14 #
The city's own page: City Clerk, elections
Still looking for: the petition text and where it is being circulated
In the news: Gazette, Oct 14 #
Open nowColorado Avenue lane test. Four lanes to three from Limit Street to 30th Street (the city's page; the Gazette says 31st), for up to a year from June 2026, paid for with $375K from the Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority (PPRTA) sales tax. The city survey is open.Changed since 2026-10-11
The city's own page: City project page · The survey
In the news: Gazette, lane test #
The city's own page: City project page · The survey
In the news: Gazette, lane test #
Oct 26, 2026The city's 2027 budget. Public hearing Monday Oct 26, 5:30 p.m., Council Chambers, 107 N Nevada Ave. Anyone can speak. The council talks it over at work sessions first (Oct 15 is one). What's in it for the Westside, we're reading now.Changed since 2026-10-11
The city's own page: the council calendar (Legistar) #
The city's own page: the council calendar (Legistar) #
Coming up
Oct 21, 2026The community center's neighbor group (the Westside Community Center Alliance) meets Wednesday Oct 21, 4 p.m. It helps steer what the center at 1628 W Bijou becomes. Whether anyone can sit in, we're asking.The city's own page: city page, community center
Still looking for: the Alliance's own notice and the Parks Advisory Board's May minutes
In the news: Gazette, the Alliance #
Still looking for: the Alliance's own notice and the Parks Advisory Board's May minutes
In the news: Gazette, the Alliance #
Apr 2027Roundabout at 31st and Fontanero, by Howbert Elementary, replacing the four-way stop. The open house was Sept 15. Construction April to fall 2027. Parents asked about the school crossing; the city says it will work with the school. The crossing drawing and the open-house boards are the documents we're after.In the news: KKTV, the roundabout #
Apr 13, 2027Project Taurus. A 50-megawatt data center proposed at the old Intel plant, next to the homes in Chelsea Glen. The Planning Commission approved it 6 to 2 in July with a power cap and noise monitoring. Council put the appeal off 7 to 2 to April 13, a week after the city election, and wants a noise study and a study of what big power users pay first. The developer told Colorado Politics on Sept 18 it is weighing whether this is the right partnership.Still looking for: the noise study
In the news: CPR, hearing date · Colorado Politics, the postponement · KKTV, the appeal #
In the news: CPR, hearing date · Colorado Politics, the postponement · KKTV, the appeal #
Already decided
Sept 22, 2026Old Colorado City's downtown development authority (DDA) shut down. The tax district voters created in 2024 never got its funding. Council voted 5 to 4 on Sept 22 to dissolve it, ordinance 26-48 (yes: Casey, Crow Iverson, Rainey, Risley, Williams; no: Donelson, Gold, Henjum, Leinweber), after the same 5 to 4 on first reading Aug 25. KKTV reported Oct 2 that the DDA is weighing legal action because the ordinance skipped the mayor's desk. Who picks up the avenue's end of things is an open question.The city's own page: meeting record (Open Publica)
Still looking for: the ordinance text itself, and the Aug 25 minutes
In the news: Gazette, the first vote · KKTV, the lawsuit threat #
Still looking for: the ordinance text itself, and the Aug 25 minutes
In the news: Gazette, the first vote · KKTV, the lawsuit threat #
Coming up
Every weekThe land. Red Rock Canyon, Section 16, the Garden, Bear Creek, the creek itself: fire restrictions, trail closures, anything the parks board decides. Nothing new on the city's pages this week; we look every Monday, and a canyon volunteer is looking with us.The city's own page: city parks, trails and open space #
Already decided
Since Apr 2023Greater Westside Community Plan. Nine neighborhoods, one plan: Gold Hill, Ivywild, Mesa, Mesa Springs, Midland, Old Colorado City, Skyway, Stratton Meadows, Westside. (The city's plan reaches past the interstate; this paper stays west of it.) The city's page lists six meetings, the last in April 2023, plus a 2022 survey and a 'Big Ideas' summary. What came next is the question we're taking to Planning, and to the neighbors who sat in those rooms.Changed since 2026-10-11
The city's own page: city page, the plan #
The city's own page: city page, the plan #
Checked October 15. Each one links to the city's own page where we found it. Where it says "still looking," we haven't found it yet (city websites, you know how it goes). If you've got it, send it over.
Want to be the person in the room? Go to one meeting, write down what happened on this one-page sheet, and we print it. A City Council Tuesday is the easy first one; you can watch it live or later from the couch.