{"id":1313484,"date":"2019-08-12T19:45:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T01:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=985772"},"modified":"2019-08-12T19:45:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T01:45:38","slug":"meeting-wednesday-invites-businesses-to-discuss-whether-or-not-seventh-street-should-reopen-to-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/meeting-wednesday-invites-businesses-to-discuss-whether-or-not-seventh-street-should-reopen-to-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Wednesday invites businesses to discuss whether or not Seventh Street should reopen to cars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pedestrians walk across Seventh Street near Bethel Plaza on a sunny Monday afternoon in downtown Glenwood.<\/strong>
Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

With the Seventh Street Beautification Project nearing completion, Glenwood Springs City Council wants to know if downtown businesses believe the \u201cfestival street\u201d should reopen to traffic.<\/p>\n

To hear from those impacted restaurants, bars, retail shops, hotels and others, the city will host a Seventh Street meeting at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in council chambers, located on the first floor of City Hall at 101 Eighth St.<\/p>\n

Seventh Street\u2019s options include: opening the street to vehicle traffic; closing it to vehicles and only allowing pedestrian access; or closing it seasonally and\/or for special events.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my opinion, the top priority for Seventh Street is that it becomes something that is pedestrian and visitor friendly,\u201d Providence Apothecary co-owner John Lee said. \u201cThe downtown core lacks a space where visitors and locals can decompress.\u201d<\/p>\n

Located at 713 Cooper Ave., Providence Apothecary resides just footsteps away from Seventh Street.<\/p>\n

Lee described how the downtown core\u2019s side streets, like Cooper, had become busier and parking more competitive; all the more reason Lee wanted a relaxing and quiet space.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can and it should be one of those areas,\u201d Lee said. \u201cI don\u2019t think that making it a pedestrian-friendly quiet zone rules out one way traffic or seasonal closures.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to CDOT data, approximately 28,000 cars travel between the Grand Avenue Bridge and 23rd Street in Glenwood Springs daily.<\/p>\n

At its last regularly scheduled meeting, City Council in a 5-2 vote approved a motion to keep Seventh Street closed at least until its Sept. 5 meeting, in order to hear from the business community, the Downtown Development Authority and the Transportation Commission.<\/p>\n

According to the city\u2019s website, the Seventh Street Beautification project, \u201cwill benefit the community by creating a destination pedestrian environment, providing space for community events, supporting four seasons of commercial activity, preserving convenient access and circulation, and adding ADA parking.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of Monday, Seventh Street remained closed to vehicle traffic between Colorado and Cooper avenues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to get broad input on whether we should open or close Seventh Street so that we\u2019re not just making decisions on what we think, but what our constituents think,\u201d Councilor Charlie Willman said.<\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Pedestrians walk across Seventh Street near Bethel Plaza on a sunny Monday afternoon in downtown Glenwood.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent With the Seventh Street Beautification Project nearing completion, Glenwood Springs City Council wants to know if downtown businesses believe the \u201cfestival street\u201d should reopen to traffic. To hear from those impacted restaurants, bars, retail shops, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-07 07:31:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}