The Castle Rock Town Council met on February 4, 2025, at 6:00 PM in Town Hall Council Chambers. The meeting covered a wide range of items including proclamations, consent calendar approvals, quasi-judicial hearings for the Brickyard development, public hearings on large vehicle parking and Design Review Board authority, and discussions on a rising star scholarship and AI leak detection technology. All votes were 7-0 unless otherwise noted.
I want to thank everyone for coming first of all online or in person. And second, we're going to start with invocation. Heavenly Father, we ask for your guidance, your wisdom, and your support as we begin this meeting. We gather here today intent on doing good work. We seek to represent fairly and well those who have given us this task. Help us engage in meaningful discussion. Give us clarity and strength to use our best skills and judgment. Please bless this community, the residents, the businesses, and visitors, and help us do help us continue doing good work in your name. Amen. Councilmember Hollingshead. Councilmember Bracken. President. Councilmember Davis. Here. Councilmember Brooks. Present. Councilmember Deeds? Here. Mayor Partem KV. Here. Mayor Gray. Here. All are present. Thank you. Please join me in the presentations. I'll go ahead and start with council comments. I wanted to highlight tomorrow is uh the rock of um Rock of Hope uh Gala for Castle Rock um Adventist. Um it's uh Gala for uh their their cancer ward their cancer wing. Um I've been part of that uh group trying to raise money for the cancer wing for uh a couple years now. It's one of the reasons I'm wearing pink tonight is uh you know people who know my history know that the uh our cancer is hitting hit our family pretty hard and that um you know for a lot of people that who have cancer, which is gonna be half of this room, half a half the people in Castle Rock will get cancer one way or the other. Um had to drive, clear up, you know, Denver, Porter, even Sky Ridge is which is fairly close. Um it is nice that we're gonna have that in that cancer center here in Castle Rock. Um a lot of times I the seven of us will hear a lot of complaints about growth. Um, and I get it, growth's hard, but growth is the reason we had that hospital, and growth is the reason we're gonna have a cancer center. Um you don't have to go north. You can do it here in town. Cancer's hard enough without having to drive an hour um to to get your uh to get your treatments and see your doctors and that kind of stuff. So it's I'm really happy and proud to be part of the the Rock of Hope and um and I hope that uh we can get that uh wing done as soon as possible. With that, Councilmember Hollins said no comment tonight, thanks. Councilmember Bracken. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I want to thank uh public works for the it was uh it was a street that literally had four inches of ice on it because of the the melting and the and the freezing over time. And uh and and they came out on a Saturday and broke up that ice and scooped it and and and I know the workers were like super sad or whatever that's life, right? But um but I gotta tell you like uh the there was a service person that was showing up to a residence that slipped and felt and hit his head and got a concussion in the middle of the street, and um, you know, like it's a sprawling area throughout town, and we can't get to every street, but when when we identify a spot like that and and there's action taken, that's that's an awesome thing. And um and how quickly that that folks came out, it it made a difference. It it really made a difference to the folks that live there. Um and then I actually followed up and the serviceman he said uh I'm going going to my chiropractor, I do have some headaches, and and um and so like those those things that are really little for seemingly the the department and and the folks that are doing the work are really a big thing for the folks that live there and and the the heating and cooling of that area um you know just it it just made it an ice rink and uh and those things happen and and we can't cover the entire town, you know. Um but when we identify them and they happen that quickly, great job to the department, great job to the folks that went out and did the work and and it it I'm gonna just gonna say how elated that everybody was on that block because I actually drove it and I got out of my car and it was amazing. So good good job, Dan. Keep up the great work.