FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — The City Council unanimously followed the recommendation of a citizens’ advisory council and will spend $450,000 to repair and reopen a neighborhood road that has been closed due to erosion concerns since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Council members voted for the move during Tuesday night’s regular meeting, selecting one of three options to repair a segment of Southmoor Drive on a bluff above Fountain Creek, on the north end of town.
Todd Evans, deputy city manager for Fountain, stated that the money originates from a permit fee paid by the developer of a new apartment complex last fall.
He said that the city will use the money to repave the 1/3-mile road segment from The American Legion to the Walmart parking lot and install a guardrail along the creek side.
A less-expensive option would have installed a guardrail but not improved the road, while a more expensive option would have extended the paving nearly a mile north, to the city limits.
“The option we’re choosing leaves us $320,000 — which would go back into our resurfacing projects that we have scheduled, and allow us to do more,” Evans explained…