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The Grand Junction City Council is moving forward toward an April ballot question asking voters to allow marijuana businesses to operate in the city, and has directed staff to continue working on developing ballot language. Grand Junction Senior Planner Lance Gloss gave the initial presentation during the Council’s Monday work session and explained that the ballot would need to include two questions. The first would overturn a moratorium on marijuana related businesses in Grand Junction that voters passed in 2011. The second would authorize the city to impose local sales and use tax on t...

Community planning in 2020 will lead to implementation in 2021 with both Grand Junction and Fruita completing comprehensive plans and parks and recreation plans.

Ensuring access to broadband internet for businesses and residents is a critical issue for cities and towns, and they have a wide array of options to do so. In Fruita, work to assess its options for providing more broadband access is just beginning, City Manager Mike Bennett said. They’ve been talking with other cities in Colorado to begin to understand what its best option would be. “We’ve been spending some time learning from other communities that are further along in that process,” Bennett said. “Many communities do it in different ways. Some communities are provi...

The Grand Junction City Council is looking ahead at the possibility of more local assistance to small businesses and nonprofits in 2021 as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to hurt the economy. Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce President Diane Schwenke spoke to the Council at its Monday work session and highlighted results from a recent survey of her members, which showed businesses are concerned about the future. Schwenke said the chamber has done member surveys since the start of the pandemic to track how businesses have been affected and what the concerns are of the owner...

The city of Grand Junction and the Downtown Development Authority are taking the next step in developing a downtown plaza space that would be located at the site of the current blocklong parking lot on Colorado Avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets. The city and the DDA are developing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which would allow the DDA to convert the east half of the lot into a plaza that could include a stage and other amenities. The plaza would accommodate concerts and events without closing Main Street, DDA Executive Director Brandon Stam said at a joint meeting of the DDA and...