ALAMOSA, CO — Downtown merchants who shared concerns about Alamosa’s appearance during a city council work session this week can expect to see immediate improvements on streets and alleyways.
Business owners meeting with the council on Wednesday said they were concerned that the downtown’s disheveled appearance would deter customers.
They listed several items such as lights out on Main Street, unsightly dumpsters in the alleys and dirty streets.
The city staff’s weekly update to officials on Friday responded to some of those concerns. For example, the city’s street sweeper should be on the road again already following a setback due to repairs. The city had to replace a fuel injector pump on the street sweeper and replaced one of the panels on the box this month. The sweeper was expected to hit the streets again yesterday.
City administrators said the sweeper would first be used in the downtown area and then move out through the commercial areas and finally the residential areas.
The city is also looking into buying a back-up sweeper but is looking for a used machine that is affordable since the city’s budget is pretty tight.
The city is also responding to dumpster enclosure concerns, particularly in the alley south of Main Street. The city has a contract with Garrison Fence to construct and install chain link gates with privacy slats to block the view of the dumpsters but expects the project to take six weeks or more before it is completed. The city initially built the enclosures that are there now. City administrators said those are the only areas with space for such dumpster enclosures downtown, however, because the alleys are only 20 feet wide with power poles and gas meters on both sides. That does not leave room for fixed enclosures around the dumpsters. In addition, any dumpsters owned by the businesses themselves must be maintained by those businesses.
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