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Published on: 2/29/2008
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Craig Blewitt, comprehensive planning manager for the city, said this week that city officials have long recognized the importance of Centennial, from its origins north of Ute Valley Park to the proposed connection to Fontanero and I-25.
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Blewitt said the last third of the proposed road runs through undevelopable land.
Blewitt said that last section of Centennial did not make a list of top road projects to be financed by the Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority, meaning the city won't have the money to build it until at least 2014.
Still, he said the city shares the concerns of Mesa Springs neighbors that until that last section is built, motorists wanting to get to Fillmore could cut through the east-west side streets off Chestnut Street to access whatever portions of Centennial are built by developers.
He said the city will monitor the area and do what it can to prevent adventurous motorists from bush-whacking their way through what now is lots of dirt.
He said the city has begun talks with developers in the area about whether they can help pay for the final third of Centennial to Fontanero.He said the downturn in the real estate market is going to make any such arrangement difficult, although he said the lack of development in the area now means there's a less pressing need for the connection.
He said another project in the area that will be funded by the RTA tax in the next few years , widening Fillmore Road to six lanes between Interstate 25 and Centennial , will help lessen congestion on that major commuter route and dampen the need, at least in the short run, for a Centennial Boulevard that runs to Fontanero.
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