“People want to walk through neighborhoods that are interesting and vibrant. And when every other parcel is a parking lot, that kills that vibrancy in the downtown area…”
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: The Downtown Parking Discussion Continues, Part Two
“And then we’re talking about building parking structures? I just don’t see a lot of opportunities within the downtown…”
EDITORIAL: The Downtown Parking Discussion Continues, Part One
This was a rather drastic recommendation for commercial properties, comparing it with the existing LUDC requirements for downtown…
EDITORIAL: Testing… Testing… One, Two, Three…
Even as schools focus more and more effort on improving math and reading scores, and less and less effort on a well-rounded education, our children are doing worse and worse…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Nine
I look forward to a community-wide effort, to provide the necessary funding to begin addressing this massive problem…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Eight
Let’s take a bird’s eye view of the problem…
EDITORIAL: How to Spot the Delta Variant from 100 Yards Away
No, I actually don’t know how to spot the Delta variant from 100 yards away. I wish I did….
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Seven
Fully 100 respondents picked “Shipping Container Home” as their second-best choice, making that option the most popular one, as a ‘second choice’….
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Six
Here’s the Town zoning map. We’ll look more closely at some details in a moment, but what we can see in the overall map is a dotted line outlining the Town limits…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Five
The Town Planning Commission, this week, recommended that the Pagosa Springs Inn & Suites be permitted to convert all of its motel rooms into long-term rental units…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Four
Can we dig ourselves out of this hole? Or are we looking at a ‘black hole’ that’s going to suck in everything within its gravitational field?…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Three
According to national vacation rental management company Vacasa, the people most likely to convert single-family homes into vacation rentals are between the ages of 20 and 50…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Two
As we see, the financial stress was not evenly distributed among the various income levels…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part One
“WHEREAS, Town Council hereby finds that the use of residential property as a short-term vacation rental impacts the Town and its residents in various ways…”
EDITORIAL: Re-Imagining the Constitution
“We have found our way back to those precious founding documents. And in those documents we find all that we need to operate as a Constitutional county…”
EDITORIAL: Turning Off Arizona’s Water Tap?
Beginning next year, certain Arizona farmers will be cut off from much of the water they’ve been extracting from the Colorado River for decades…
Pagosa Peak Charter School Adopts ‘Masks Optional’ Policy
Three parents testified at the PPOS board meeting, requesting that all staff and students be required to wear masks indoors…
EDITORIAL: Strange Tales from Pitkin County, Colorado
“In fact, 66% of all positive COVID-19 cases among residents in Pitkin County… have been so-called ‘breakthrough’ cases, or those involving fully vaccinated residents…”