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Article: Stretched to the limit?/ Colorado Springs' thirst for fast growth strains services, critics argue
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- September 7, 2003
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From the highest point on Flying Horse Ranch, the sea of homes and
office buildings spreading north from Colorado Springs looks like a
massive, cresting wave of concrete, stucco and roof tile.
That wave soon might break on - and spread over - Flying Horse's
rolling hills of grass and sage, lapping up against the southern edge
of Black Forest.
Next month, the Colorado Springs City Council will consider a
request from one of the area's largest developers, Classic Cos., to
absorb the 1,566-acre ranch into the city limits and allow
construction of 3,975 single- and multifamily homes set around a 200-
acre golf course.
If approved - and some observers say it likely will be - the
annexation would ...