<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1JLEUu_1H341qnw00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1JLEUu_1H341qnw00" width="1280" height="818" ><figcaption>Kristi Mountain Sports owner Eric Burt has spoken out about the highway access control plan. Credit: The Citizen</figcaption></figure>The hot topic of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s highway access control plan for Alamosa is back on the front burner at City Hall. The Alamosa City Council will hold a final public work session on Wednesday, Dec. 2, to review the proposed plan before then voting on entering into an agreement with CDOT on the access control plan. The initial vote would happen at the city council’s regularly scheduled meeting on Dec. 16 and final vote on Jan. 6, according to city officials.When presented to the community in February, local business owners expressed outrage and concern with how highway access to their businesses could change through the highway access control plan. CDOT and city officials have since met individually with business owners to hear concerns.A primary trigger for a change to highway access is usually when a complete change in use is made to a property, says CDOT regional director Julie Constan. She gave the example of a gas station convenience store changing into a restaurant property in a highway ride-along with Alamosa Citizen.“That change in use is going to open up the access control plan and/or the access code for us to look at ‘does the change in use increase or decrease the traffic?’ And usually just the change in use alone, if you go something so significant from a gas station to a restaurant in our example, we’re going to be asking for a traffic intersection study. We’re going to be looking at what the access control plan identified for that property and trying to move forward with that.”Villa Mall off Highway 160 is an example of where two highway access points currently exist for businesses but will reduce to one highway access point for inbound traffic and outbound traffic pushed to the side street by Chilis restaurant.Kristi Mountain Sports is an example of businesses affected by the change. Owner Eric Burt has been among the business owners most vocal about the lack of openness with developing the highway access control plan and with how it has been presented to the community.“They feel like we are taking away that direct access from the highway to their business, and I get it,” says Constan. “The people that have gone to Kristi Mountain Sports for forever probably are very used to turning in right here. It’s visible.”CDOT will also eventually install a traffic signal at Pike Avenue as part of its 10-year plan for the Alamosa highway. Constan didn’t expect that project to materialize until after 2030.“What we’ll eventually see that changes is these businesses that have driveway cuts that come right onto the highway, as those businesses redevelop, usually the access control plan will identify if they have access to the side street, then the access control plan will identify that the driveway cut goes away, again on redevelopment only.”<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1qhCxM_1H341qnw00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1qhCxM_1H341qnw00" width="1024" height="646" ><figcaption>The Best Western Hotel is an example of a business with two driveway cuts that could be affected by the access control plan, according to Julie Constan, a CDOT regional director. Credit: The Citizen</figcaption></figure>The Best Western off Highway 160 is an example of a property with two driveway cuts. Constan says one of those will eventually go away.The city council work session on Dec. 2 is accessible via Zoom. The meeting begins at 6 p.m.<h2>Zoom Information</h2>Join via audio: +1 719 359 4580 USWebinar ID: 864 4266 757</div></body>

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The hot topic of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s highway access control plan for Alamosa is back on the front burner at City Hall. The Alamosa City Council will hold a final public work session on Wednesday, Dec. 2, to review the proposed plan before then voting on entering into an agreement with CDOT on the access control plan. The initial vote would happen at the city council’s regularly scheduled meeting on Dec. 16 and final vote on Jan. 6, according to city officials.

Alamosa to hold work session on CDOT access control plan

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The hot topic of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s highway access control plan for Alamosa is back on the front burner at City Hall. The Alamosa 

Alamosa to hold work session on CDOT access control plan

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