Colorado Springs Residents Unhappy With Councils' Apartment Complex Ok

By BILLIE STANTON ANLEU billie.stantonanleu@gazette.com -It's called progress, but that's not how it felt Tuesday to residents who saw the Colorado Springs City Council approve a 272-unit apartment building near their 5-acre residential lots.Councilman Andy Pico, a dissenter in the 6-2 vote, expressed concern about rezoning from agriculture to multifamily residential - "the least dense to the most dense" - on 14.4 acres north of Barnes Road and west of Powers Boulevard.Although city Principal Planner Lonna Thelan cited three other areas in Colorado Springs where multi-family developments were built beside single-family homes, none of those depicted a high-density unit beside 5-acre lots, Pico noted."It doesn't seem to me that it's compatible - 18 units per acre vs.

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