Author: Bill Hudson

In my experience, it’s always easier to get a new tax approved, when the tax will be paid by someone other than the folks voting to approve it…

The commissioners allocated $280,000 to build a covered walkway connecting the County’s new $15 million jail to their new $6 million courthouse…

But as we know, the regulation and subjugation and restraint is often practiced on an ‘unequal’ playing field…

But over the past couple of months, the BOCC did take a couple of small steps to encourage smaller, more affordable housing for our local workforce…

In 1970, when Ralph Eaton and his company began building out the 21-square-miles of suburban neighborhoods known today as Pagosa Lakes, we understood that Americans were rejecting the big-city lifestyle…

Young families, escaping from other places, were finding Pagosa to be affordable and attractive. Within a few years, the School District was proposing a new high school…

I’ve been working my way through a book written in 1961 — a classic on urban planning: ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities’, by Jane Jacobs…

I suspect the attempts to control vacation rentals will not end with Ordinance 958. The Town Council and the Town Planning Commission have also been discussing an excise tax on vacation rentals…

“So I went into the [Town’s] Municipal Code and I found section 14, article 2, that deals with Parks & Recreation facilities…”

“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…”

This was a rather drastic recommendation for commercial properties, comparing it with the existing LUDC requirements for downtown…

I look forward to a community-wide effort, to provide the necessary funding to begin addressing this massive problem…

Let’s take a bird’s eye view of the problem…

No, I actually don’t know how to spot the Delta variant from 100 yards away. I wish I did….