A Gazette report last month summarized the legacy of the Pikeview Quarry on the city’s northwest side with one simple yet accurate word: complicated.
For decades, the “Scar Wars” that were fought over the quarry had cast a shadow over Colorado Springs, much like the barren blight upon the mountainside visible from much of the city.
On one side were environmentalists and civic activists, who not only found the extensive excavation of the mountainside grotesque, but also pointed to the instability of a steep slope with a history of landslides…