Stop the massive growth agenda

I read the Gazette daily and read about all of the developments that go before Colorado Springs City Council, the Colorado Springs Planning Commission and the El Paso County Commissioners. I’m not surprised that most of the developers get their request approved. The reason I’m not surprised is because I know what their agenda is. They are all about massive growth, growth and more growth. They know about the water crisis here in Colorado and they know we don’t have the infrastructure for such massive growth but yet they approve most of the requests presented to them but yet they choose to ignore the facts concerning the water crisis and the lack of infrastructure.

Many of the development hearings are met with oppositions from local homeowners voicing their concerns about the development because of fire evacuations, the development not fitting in with the surrounding area and many other concerns. The entities that are hearing the request of course opts to grant the developers request and maybe with some minor changes. They completely ignore the citizens concerns because of course they know better than the people that being affected. Why? Because they the entity are all about massive growth! They ignore the warning signs of the (water crisis, the lack of infrastructure and the citizens concerns).

With all of the talk about affordable housing and with all of the thoughts of how to make housing affordable is a dream. The way they want to help make housing affordable involves some kind of subsidies and involves taking money from some other source. Housing has always been expensive here and a lot of singles and families have chose not move here because of the cost of housing. I for one almost didn’t move here because of the high cost of housing in 1973 but did and worked all the overtime I could get and I made it work.

As long as apartments and houses are being built people will continue to come and housing will always be unaffordable and in short supply. Stop the massive growth agenda and people will stop coming if housing is not available. Affordable housing will never be available for all that come here.

If it keeps going the way it has been going, we will be known as the apartment city and the beautiful city as we now know it will be no more,  as it will be destroyed.

Jim White

Monument

CPW Commission appointments

RE: Wolves bite back at Polis’ picks. Governor Jared Polis does indeed have a history of questionable appointments to our Colorado Boards & Commissions. Colorado Parks & Wildlife Interim Commissioner Gary Skiba’s involvement with authoring Prop.114, the wolf re-introduction to Colorado, is another red flag.

Should the Colorado Senate decline to approve any of Governor Polis’s current interim appointees to the Parks & Wildlife Commission, creating a vacancy, I offer a suggestion. Appoint rancher Don Gittleson of Walden. He has 2 plus years of wolf experience and would be a good representative for the Western Slope’s farmers and ranchers. This would bring some balance to the CPW Commission. However, he may be too busy protecting his livelihood and livestock.

Rachel Meyer

Colorado Springs

The only planning needed

I read with dismay the front-page article in Sunday’s Gazette where there was criticism for the “lack of planning” for any future issues with illegals infiltrating our city. I am under the impression that our current mayor came out recently to announce that Colorado Springs was not a so-called “Sanctuary City.”

In my humble opinion the only planning, if there needs to be any at all, would be for the proper authorities to greet any busloads of the illegals at the city limits and turn them away. If per chance, any would be able to sneak into the Springs, when they are discovered, (again) the proper authorities would escort them as they left.

John Wear

Black Forest

Legal stables need cleaning

So, the chief judge of the Denver juvenile court, D. Brett Woods, resigned in disgrace after being suspended (“Loss of Influence”, March 3). Why? Because alledgedly he’s a drunk. It appears that half the judges in Denver knew he was a drunk, and said nothing.

It’s also been revealed that the chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, Brian Boatright, knew Woods was a drunk – and he did nothing, either. It’s beginning to look as if the judges in Denver have no integrity. As for Boatright, in case anybody forgot, he’s the head of the passel of pettifoggers that tried to disenfranchise half the population of Colorado – and got slapped down by the United States Supreme Court in a 9-0 ruling.

The legal stables need to be shoveled out.

John Lariviere

Colorado Springs

The future of democracy

The Supreme Court’s unanimous rejection of the Democrat-controlled state supreme court’s decision to kick Donald Trump off the Colorado presidential ballot puts the nails in the coffin of this audacious attempt to deprive voters of our state the ability to vote for the leading candidate for President. It also blunts the efforts of more than two dozen other states who tried to emulate this death threat to American democracy.

Most of all, it exposes the hypocrisy and hubris of the Democrats who are building their entire desperate campaign around the ludicrous assertion that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, when it is their own actions that most imperil the basic freedom of choice for American voters.

This nationally-orchestrated Democratic campaign of election interference includes not only attempts to deprive voters of their choice of a candidate, but it has also weaponized the justice system by a series of politically-motivated indictments of Donald Trump by a Biden DOJ special prosecutor. Their first success was a politically-active Democratic judge in New York who — while denying Trump a jury trial — convicted him of a crime with no victims and imposed almost a half-billion dollars in fines, clearly an attempt to destroy him financially.

In just over three years, Joe Biden and the far-left Democratic party has taken America to the brink of becoming a banana republic where the incumbent seeks to jail his opponent. Truly, the future of American democracy is at stake this fall. But in my view, the clear and present threat to our republic is  Biden and a radically extremist Democratic party.

Jack Shultz

Colorado Springs