The Gazette: More Colorado Springs building permits issued in wake of fire

The Gazette in Colorado Springs reports this week that 200 homes destroyed in the Waldo Canyon fire are an track to be rebuilt.

Ryan Handy says:

"Eleven months after the fire destroyed 347 homes in Mountain Shadows, the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department has issued 176 rebuilding permits for homes in the northwest neighborhood that was ravaged by the fire on June 26.

The majority of those new permits were issued to homeowners returning to the neighborhood, but some were issued to new residents and others were given to contractors for "spec" houses, said Bob Cutter, president of Colorado Springs Together, a nonprofit fire recovery group."

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