Every item on the 2026-09-17 Colorado Springs city council agenda, in the order Council will take them, with each official title quoted in full. Nothing is ranked and nothing is left out.
Agendas change. Items get continued, pulled or amended between publication and the meeting. Check the live agenda before relying on any entry below.
This meeting
Thursday, September 17, 2026, 9:00 AM
Pikes Peak Center for Performing Arts, 190 S Cascade Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903.
The city's own note on this meeting, quoted from the record: “Special meeting to hear the Project Taurus planning item appeal”
Note the address. City Council's regular meetings are held in Council Chambers on the 3rd floor of City Hall, 107 N. Nevada Avenue. This meeting is not.
The agenda — 1 item
This meeting: 1 planning case.
Appeals of the administrative decision for Corporate Ridge Filing No. 1
Agenda 2.A. · File APPL PROJ. TAURUS · Planning Case · Quasi-Judicial
Official title: Appeals of the City Planning Commission’s decision to deny prior appeals of the Administrative Approval of the Development Plan Major Modification application for Corporate Ridge Filing No. 1 Lot 4, located at 1565 High Tech Way, and to approve the same Modification with conditions. (Quasi-Judicial) Related Files: DEPN-26-0039; APPL-26-0003; APPL-26-0004 Located in Council District 1 Presenter: Daniel Sexton, DRE/LUR Planning Manager, City Planning Department Kevin Walker, Planning Director, City Planning Department
Prior action on this item: 2 recorded, introduced 2026-06-29, status Agenda Ready
· 2026-07-23 — heard by City Planning Commission: approved — Pass
· 2026-07-23 — heard by City Planning Commission: denied — Fail
Background — AI summary of 6 meeting records: This matter comes to Council after introduction on June 29, 2026; the City Planning Commission on July 23, 2026 denied the appeals 6-2 and also unanimously denied a postponement request. At the July 23 hearing, the chair explained that five appeals were before the commission and walked through the options: approve all five and overturn the Planning Department’s administrative approval, or deny the appeals and uphold that approval with or without conditions, either path leaving the losing side able to appeal to Council. The motion by Commissioner Slattery, seconded by Commissioner Cecil, was to deny all appeals seeking reversal of the department’s decision.
See it at the source
The city's official meeting calendar — agendas, packets, and any change made after this was written.
Speaking at this meeting
This meeting is not being held at City Hall, and Council's regular public-comment routine does not describe it. Citizen Discussion, the order of business and the sign-up procedure quoted in our previews of regular meetings all describe meetings in Council Chambers. Do not carry them across to this one.
Council's own participation notice, quoted verbatim from this meeting's agenda:
Public comment during the hearing will be limited to a total of 120 speakers inclusive of speakers in support and opposition. Each speaker will be limited to two minutes. Speakers are not permitted to cede time or display multimedia during their comments. Advance sign-up to speak is encouraged. Those wanting to provide public comment should send an email to allcouncil@coloradosprings.gov or call 719-385-5480 and please provide your name, address, and whether you support or oppose the project.
Making sense of the numbers
Each item below carries up to three different numbers. They are not versions of each other:
Agenda number (like 4A.A.) — where the item sits in this meeting's running order. It changes every meeting, so it is useless for tracking anything over time.
File number (like 26-324, or ZONE-26-0012 for land-use cases) — the city's permanent identifier for the matter itself. It stays the same from first reading to final vote, so this is the one to search on if you want to follow something.
Ordinance number (like Ordinance No. 26-39, inside the title) — assigned only once something becomes an actual ordinance. Only some items have one.
The file number and the ordinance number both begin with the year, which makes them look related. They are not: they count different things. For example, file 26-324 became Ordinance 26-39, while the earlier file 26-295 became Ordinance 26-46.
Source: City of Colorado Springs Legistar, event 2849. Titles are quoted verbatim from the official record.