Author: Brennen Kauffman

A court injunction issued Monday afternoon blocks Colorado Springs’ attempted ballot measure to repeal the recreational marijuana rules enacted by voters last year. In her ruling, 4th District Court Judge Hilary Gurney sided with plaintiffs who sued the city to prevent the repeal vote from appearing on the April 1 municipal ballot. Gurney ruled that…

The final approval for the Karman Line annexation wasn’t the only vote made by the Colorado Springs City Council recently to add land into the city. The council held the public hearing Jan. 28 for a series of annexations at the southern end of city limits next to Cheyenne Mountain State Park. The developer’s proposal…

The search for the next board member of the Pikes Peak Library District has been going on for four months. The term for Board President Dora Gonzales expired at the end of 2024. The library district held an opening for applications in September and a second one in November because the announcement had not been…

Recreational marijuana sales in Colorado Springs took two steps forward and one step back Tuesday. The City Council voted during its meeting to enact a set of four ordinances implementing the details of Ballot Question 300 that voters approved in November to begin allowing retail marijuana stores. The council amended one of the ordinances to…

Questions about whether Colorado Springs will enact or seek to repeal recreational marijuana sales in the city will come to a head at Tuesday morning’s council meeting. The Colorado Springs City Council considered four ordinances at the Monday morning work session related to the implementation of the retail marijuana rules that were approved by voters…

It has been 30 years since Colorado Springs voters first approved a pay offer for City Council members, but a group of outgoing and former council members have revived talks about asking voters for a higher compensation rate. When City Council President Randy Helms spoke to a group of this year’s candidates for office on…

The Colorado Springs Planning Commission unanimously voted Wednesday afternoon to back less-restrictive zoning rules for recreational marijuana in the city. The Planning Commission had the first hearing for the ordinance enacting the ballot measure voters passed in November to begin permitting recreational marijuana sales in Colorado Springs. Ballot Question 300 allows the existing medical marijuana…

Colorado Springs Utilities’ first large-scale battery storage project will be connected to the power grid later this month to begin charging and testing the new array. The project is under construction next to the Jackson Fuller substation outside of Falcon. Even through the snow Tuesday morning, construction was underway to get the batteries and the…

The first draft of Colorado Springs’ new rules for recreational marijuana sales was released ahead of Wednesday’s Planning Commission meeting. The proposed ordinance, placed on the agenda for the Planning Commission, includes the strictest restrictions on the locations for the retail sales allowed by the measure city voters passed in November. The ordinance also outlines…