Side Streets
Times change, but residential conflicts stay the same
Comments | RecommendConflict between neighbors isn't new. It's been going on for a century in Colorado Springs, as a "Back Pages" column last week showed. Here's the story, published in The Gazette on April 30, 1908: "Mrs....
City doesn’t have the cash to slow down some speeders
Comments | RecommendJoan Turner wants speed humps. Greg Rodriguez wants a roundabout and police speed traps. Bob Neff would be happy with a couple of stop signs. Residents of North Prospect Street across from Patty Jewett Golf Course want anything...
Forum could answer your neighborhood questions
Comments | RecommendMaybe you want to talk to a codeenforcement officer about a boardedup rental house on your street. Or you have a question for zoning officials about a neighbor who stores an unsightly mess of boats, snowmobiles, motorcycles and cars all over his lot....
Pepsi truck dispute is over, but dust-up over barn isn’t
Comments | RecommendJosh Higham is toasting Pepsi. Manure no longer rolls downhill in Manitou Springs. And new rules govern homeowners associations. Time to update recent Side Streets stories, starting with Higham, who lives in a bungalow on Madison Street across from Penrose...
Big-city crime making some suburbanites a little uneasy
Comments | RecommendKaren Short came to Colorado Springs when she was in middle school and lived here until 1988, when she moved away. She moved back 10 years ago and was amazed at how much things had changed: "It's gotten so big," she said. ...
Just asking may silence Pepsi truck early in morning
Comments | RecommendJosh Higham has lived across from Penrose Hospital, north of downtown, for a couple of years and has gotten used to helicopters and lots of people and cars coming and going day and night. But he just can't stand the Pepsi truck...
Bill allows neighbors to let it all hang out
Comments | RecommendOnce again, Colorado lawmakers are tinkering with the rules, or covenants, that govern neighborhoods across the state. And one bill may have folks seeing red....
SIDE STREETS: Manitou goes too upscale for owner of restaurant
Comments | RecommendFor years, the mountainside tourist town of Manitou Springs has been an eclectic place where all are welcome and just about anything goes, from coffin races to fruitcake tosses....
SIDE STREETS: HOA disputes ex-member’s claim that it needs her
Comments | RecommendIn its November newsletter, the Victoria Village Homeowners Association board warned of a "silent, but paralyzing disease" gripping the townhome complex....
SIDE STREETS: A subdivision is all about getting rid of divides
Comments | RecommendGood fences are supposed to equate to good neighbors - keeping a polite distance between folks and all of that....
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