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El Paso County home market sees busiest month of June since 2005 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- The Pikes Peak Regional Building Department (PPRBD) tells KRDO NewsChannel 13 the demand for housing and apartments is through the roof. This past month of June, PPRBD signed off on 445 permits for constructing single-family homes in El Paso County. That's a near 20% increase from May of 2021, and the busiest month of June since 2005. According to Greg Dingrando with PPRBD, a large portion of the new single-family homes being built by developers are concentrated in northern Colorado Springs. "W...
If your neighborhood has been filled with construction noise over the past year, if youâve seen an unusual number of people hanging onto ladders or hammering on rooftops, an increase in permit applications for residential alterations might offer at least a partial explanation. According to the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department database on pprbd.org, a total of 61,996 total permits were approved in 2019 for El Paso County residents looking to perform major construction work on their homes, like installing new air conditioning systems, building new decks and working on electrical sys...
What to do if snow damages your home WXYZ-TV and last updated 2021-03-13 08:26:18-05 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado â It can be dangerous when snow piles up in feet. Colorado building codes were written with heavy snowfall in mind. However, falling tree limbs and gutters clogged with ice dams can cause damage to homes, power lines, and vehicles. In extreme cases, heavy snow loads can also lead to roof collapses. That happened in the Denver area during the historic snowfall in March 2003. An abandoned building and a gas station, both with flat roofs, experienced collapses when more than 31 in...
T o get to Edith Dislerâs house, drive north on Highway 83 to a paved road that heads west. In short order, the pavement turns into a narrow dirt road that winds up and down over hilly terrain in the woods. The road isnât maintained by the county. It gets icy and snow packed in winter and muddy in spring rains. Only a few houses, barely visible from the road, dot the area. Itâs exactly the environment Disler wanted when she bought a patch of ground in Black Forest Park subdivision in 1993 while serving in the Air Force and teaching at the Air Force Academy.