Colorado Springs sets special election for controversial Karman Line annexation
Colorado Springs' voters will get to decide in June whether the city continues the controversial Karman Line annexation.
The Colorado Springs City Council voted 8-1 at the meeting Tuesday to set a June 17 special election for a vote to reverse the Karman Line annexation, a 1,900-acre addition the City Council approved in January about two miles east of the current city limits. Council member Brian Risley was the sole vote against the election.
Developers from One La Plata requested the annexation to build a 6,500-single family home neighborhood and commercial space built out over the next two decades.
A public signature campaign led by county residents gathered enough signatures to force a referendum on the addition. Petitioners said the location for the annexation did not make sense and the location for the development was a bad use for the city's limited water supply.
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