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SIDE STREETS: Wolf Ranch developer nurtures sense of community

BILL VOGRIN

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Typically, when developers build a subdivision, they work with the city to lay out streets, parks and schools, write covenants for a future homeowners association to enforce, sell lots to builders and then move on to another project. It's up to the folks... Full story

SIDE STREETS: Fillmore bridge's tilted parts don't mean it's unsafe

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Jordan Strub was riding his bicycle on the Pikes Peak Greenway trail when he looked up at the bridge carrying Fillmore Street high over the trail and Monument Creek. Between the horizontal steel girders of the bridge and the vertical concrete piers that... Full story

SIDE STREETS: Big box brouhaha rages on in Soaring Eagles

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Sometimes you win and sometimes -- well, the developer comes back with a new plan for that 28 acres of vacant land and, suddenly, the neighborhood loses. That's what happened recently to residents of Soaring Eagles near the Colorado Springs Airport. Now,... Full story

SIDE STREETS: Friends, neighbors rally to support kidney transplant patient

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Lois Harmande felt helpless as she watched her friend and neighbor Elba Noble struggle for a year with her son's illness and search for a kidney donor. Mikey Noble had been stricken in January 2008, on his 18th birthday, with a rare autoimmune disorder... Full story

SIDE STREETS: New guardrail has residents resting easy

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One Colorado Springs neighborhood finally is protected. Another awaits help.Folks living along South Chelton Road in the Spring Lane at Valley Hi neighborhood are resting easier now that the city spent $10,000 and installed 200 feet of guardrail to protect... Full story

SIDE STREETS: Golf club building plans rile residents

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It's a classic property rights debate: the Gleneagle Golf Club wants to rezone its driving range to build 47 patio homes despite fierce opposition from neighbors who say the project would make a mockery out of the area's master plan and significantly... Full story

SIDE STREETS: Developer gets feedback on possible private club

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Often, neighborhoods complain developers sneak projects through city planning, never giving them a voice in the process.Neighbors can't say Mike Slattery is a sneak. He's getting neighbors involved early in his plan for a possible private club near Peregrine.... Full story

SIDE STREETS: The great pumpkin race is on

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There's a race underway in neighborhoods across Colorado Springs. It's not exactly the tortoise and the hare. For now, it's all tortoises.In about a dozen scattered backyards, gardeners are coaxing leafy vines that sprouted from Atlantic Giant pumpkin... Full story

SIDE STREETS: Man's best friend, or a pit bull in a china shop?

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Achilles the pit bull is free after seven months in dog jail, reunited with his pit bull pal, Asia, in the backyard of Danny and Susan Polston on Nokomis Circle, an unincorporated area on Colorado Springs' east edge. Achilles is a little too free for... Full story

SIDE STREETS: Citizens' efforts thwart 2 Woodmen Valley projects

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After sitting vacant for years, the Woodmen Center is getting new paint and carpet and awaiting its new owners, Nursing and Therapy Services of Colorado. Blocks away, "for sale" signs offer homes on 5-acre parcels where an 80-home subdivision was planned. Both... Full story

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