Colorado Springs Independent
June 5, 2009, Drew Willsley

A common motto I've heard among the Front Range anti-growth crowd is, "We want cows, not condos!" I understand the sentiment, but what these people don't understand is that the motto doesn't work; it's not one or the other. Some claim more should be done to prevent the "Denverization" of Colorado Springs. There are so many in El Paso County who demonize Denver and demonize growth, and they simply don't get it. They say the city and all its ills are the result of growth that was too rapid, growth that has exceeded the city's ability to plan for many years. Growth is criticized as a drain on city coffers, since constant infrastructure improvements are necessary to support it. The thing is, Colorado Springs as we know it is not the result of a lack of planning or foresight. Indeed, the vast majority of the city has been carefully planned, all according to the will of a few land developers who have embraced, wholly and to the extreme, modernist and irresponsible American urban dynamics....

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