The Colorado Department of Transportation will begin improvements along US 34 and US 36 in Estes Park on Feb. 19. The project will resurface four miles of roadway and provide other safety improvements for the busy tourist town. The anticipated completion date of the project is fall 2024. During the first phase of the project, a retaining wall will […]
Everyone who has been inconvenienced by construction in town, hold up your hand! (Many hands imagined.) As an Estes Park trustee the past four years and currently a candidate for mayor, I have been encouraged to write about issues of concern. Here, I am focusing on downtown construction. In 2013 the town successfully applied for […]
Flap construction Today, I sat for 10+ minutes in a line of cars (eventually extending back at least 1/4 of a mile) along the Big Thompson River as it borders Moraine Avenue coming into town. Traffic was not moving in either direction, although eventually, a few cars appeared coming from the opposite direction, at which […]
The Estes Park Town Board addressed the matter of a decibel-based noise ordinance in a study session prior to its regular Town Board meeting Tuesday evening. In 2017, the town changed its municipal code to remove objective decibel levels. The ordinance was replaced with the subjective wording that noise should not be “unreasonable.” Since 2019, […]