Colorado Springs is a wonderful place to live and has some of the lowest property taxes in the nation. Sometime very soon they are going to have to institute a "no growth" plan here in CS. Our water supply is already streatched thin and they are still building new homes.
Get in before such a plan is put in place and home values sky-rocket. I imagine the enviro-dim-weenies will push for such a measure before long and given this defeat tells me the Dim's may have the means to make such a plan happen. It's good for me personally as a property owner building equity and until more water is reserved for the city will be neccessary.
CS is a very conservative city and has a large population of military personal. It has all the "feel" of a small town without all the liberal non-sense that goes along with a large city (at least how I see it). It will last for a while, just not sure how long.
I have been following the news in the Springs for years. I know their politics BUT, the rot is spreading. Look at the numbers for this vote in El Paso County. Instead of the 70-80% drubbing it should have gotten, it failed by only about 55%. That means that 45% of the voters are in favor of higher taxes and more government. Look at the election in 2004. The state voted Bush BUT let in the spenders taking the legislature. Now the dems have billions with which to pander and maintain their power.
I fear, greatly, that the trend is going the wrong way. The Springs may remain free for the forseeable future but the state is drifting to rot.
You have no idea how sad this all makes me, but I cannot make the mistake of jumping from the pot of boiling socialism that is Maine with it 13% tribute to state and local government, to a pot merely simmering as it slowly comes to a boil.