Leveraging technology to improve public safety headlines Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi’s 2025 strategic plan. In the first of two parts, Al and Dave dissect the Mayor’s new Strategic Action Doing Items. Wildfire mitigation, evacuation planning, transportation and infill development also get some attention.

Also:

Golf carts instead of buses?

Who benefits from the city’s strong-mayor form of government? Take a guess. And Dave and Al aren’t crazy about it.

Banning-Lewis Ranch and other annexation issues

“Complete Streets” and “Complete Creeks”

A pay raise for city council? Dave and Al discuss the issue, in light of a January 18 Community Conversation hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region. See links below for video of that event, or hear it on the Making Democracy Work podcast.

LINKS:

Community Conversation: City Council Pay – video and Making Democracy Work podcast

https://studio809podcasts.com/community-conversation-council-pay/

Colorado Springs Strategic Plan

https://coloradosprings.gov/StrategicPlan

Strategic Doing Action Items

https://coloradosprings.gov/document/2025strategicdoingactions.pdf

The Future of Fountain Creek - Panel and Community Discussion – March 19, 2025

Hybrid Event – noon to 1:30 at Fountain Creek Nature Center (doors open 11:30)

RSVP to attend virtually

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/5RNjoPyYRGCLUQ86pcZzJQ

Loving the Springs celebrates the best of Colorado Springs and elevates the rest.

Plug into what’s happening in the Pikes Peak region, learn about awesome people, places and happenings, and explore opportunities to make life here even better. Local gadflies Al Brody and Dave Gardner love our two springs – Colorado and Manitou, so they give them the mic in this twice-monthly podcast. Nothing’s off the table – recreation, the arts, government, business, politics – if it touches your life, they'll talk about it. We’ll invite the movers and shakers, conspiracy theorists, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, yaysayers and naysayers to join them.

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