The fact that other cities and towns may have abused the Urban Renewal Law doesn’t mean that the Town of Pagosa Springs ought to do the same thing…
Author: Bill Hudson
Bill Hudson began sharing his opinions in the Pagosa Daily Post in 2004 and can't seem to break the habit. He claims that, in Pagosa Springs, opinions are like pickup trucks: everybody has one.
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs, the Blighted Community, Part Five
“With all this going on, I haven’t heard anything about the commitment that the Town would make, or the County, to improve the downtown. I look up and down the [main commercial block] and what do I see?…”
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs, the Blighted Community, Part Four
The Town entered into an ‘economic incentive’ package with Colorado-based Hometown Markets, with a promise of tax subsidies and fee waivers valued at about $500,000…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs, the Blighted Community, Part Three
Based on what I remember seeing that evening, I walked out onto the vacant 27-acre parcel that attorney Benedetti was promoting as the site for a possible ‘Urban Renewal Authority’ treatment, and snapped a photo…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs, the Blighted Community, Part Two
“I’m actually representing a private client here. David Dronet is interested in using ‘Urban Renewal’ as a device for financing infrastructure for his proposed expansion…”
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs, the Blighted Community, Part One
“The general assembly finds and declares that there exist in municipalities of this state slum and blighted areas which constitute a serious and growing menace, injurious to the public health, safety, morals, and welfare…”
EDITORIAL: Declining Ovulation Rates in Certain Populations, Part Four
Over the short haul, however, it suggests a ‘graying’ of the planet, where a larger and larger proportion of the planet’s population is past childbearing age…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Votes to Eliminate ‘Impact Fees’
Will the Town really miss impact fees of $50,000 per year, considering its overall budget has increased by $5.7 million since 2005?
EDITORIAL: Declining Ovulation Rates in Certain Populations, Part Three
The birthrate for women in their 20s has tended to drop year after year… According to the report, the birthrate among women in their early 20s has dropped an average of 4 percent each year since 2007…
EDITORIAL: Declining Ovulation Rates in Certain Populations, Part Two
The way I understood home ownership, the way I was taught — by my parents’ actions and conversations — was that a house was meant to be a home, and you maintained it and cared for it…
EDITORIAL: Declining Ovulation Rates in Certain Populations, Part One
“Successful breeding depends largely upon the doe’s health during the rut. The ovulation rate is strongly affected by the doe’s level of nutrition…”
EDITORIAL: A Rough Ride to a Rafting Take-out, Part Three
Stella Liebeck ordered coffee at a McDonald’s drive-through and promptly spilled it on her lap. Because of the absorbent sweat pants she wore, she suffered severe burns…
EDITORIAL: A Rough Ride to a Rafting Take-out, Part Two
“If we want to own [the one-acre parcel] we could license. With the boating companies, and with the private boat owners. Make them sign a license. That way they would have to indemnify the County…”
EDITORIAL: A Rough Ride to a Rafting Take-out, Part One
“Right now, you have a County road there, and it’s private property on both sides of the road. What’s your concern about taking ownership? I guess that’s my question. I mean, what is your concern?”
EDITORIAL: The Drought is Over?
When I’m allowed to water my lawn for purely aesthetic purposes, for the past 17 years, I have a hard time believing that we had an honest-to-goodness “drought situation” in Archuleta County…
EDITORIAL: What Can Be Done with the Dispatch Center? Part Three
To generate that number of phone calls, every man, woman and child in Archuleta County would need to call the Dispatch Center more than ten times every year…
EDITORIAL: What Can Be Done with the Dispatch Center? Part One
“The Dispatch Center takes all 911 calls within the County and dispatches the appropriate agencies. They receive over 8,000 911 calls per year…”
EDITORIAL: Coffee With Council… and a Zoning Question, Part Four
In order to accomplish this goal of devitalizing the downtown, the BOCC needs the Town Council to approve the re-zoning of a 5-acre parcel in the core of the Harman Park commercial area…
EDITORIAL: Coffee With Council… and a Zoning Question, Part Three
“With a city entirely zoned, they [realtors] could assure purchasers of residential property that their neighborhoods would never be encroached upon by business…”