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The Fremont County Planning Commission will handle only one item of business for their monthly meeting on June 2nd.    The Commission will consider a request from Byrd’s Sewer Rooter and Septic Service for a conditional use permit (CUP) on their existing site north of Florence.   Byrd’s permit request is intended to renew and replace an existing CUP on property owned by Vaughn Byrd 1 ½ miles east of the junction of Highways 50 and 67 and a half mile north of Highway 50.   Byrd uses the site for treatment of septage pumped from septic tanks.

A new sign greets visitors who enjoy hiking and walking dogs in the open space at Fremont County's B.F. Rockafellow Ecology Park along Temple Canyon Road.

A new sign at the entrance of the B.F. Rockafellow Ecology Park is the latest improvement made at the open space park south of Cañon City.   3rd Dimension Signs of Cañon City installed the new sign which incorporates Fremont County’s new logo.

The Royal Gorge Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management is inviting the public to share their vision for the future of their community and how BLM managed public lands and federal minerals fit into that vision at a series of public meetings in May and early June.   Fremont County residents interested in taking part will have two opportunities to do so with meetings in Salida and Cañon City.  The envisioning meetings will help guide the BLM as they develop the Eastern Colorado Resource Management Plan.

Fremont County officials were afforded the opportunity again on Tuesday to engage in an annual discussion on public health and human services issues with Colorado State officials.   Fremont County Human Services Director Steve Clifton has organized the annual visit by state officials for the past several years.   Sue Birch, Director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Finance (HCPF), said Fremont County’s Human Services Department is one of the highest performing counties in the state.  Former State Representative Tom Massey, now the Communications

The Fremont County Commissioners on Tuesday approved expansion of a gravel pit operation south of Florence along Siloam Road.   While acknowledging that there are major impacts from truck traffic through the Sumo subdivision coming off of Siloam Road, the Board of Commissioners said that while Pioneer Sand is cooperating it is not the company’s responsibility to solve that problem.   Pioneer Sand won approval from the commissioners to expand a gravel pit on the Phillips Ranch property by another 135 acres.   The existing Conditional Use Permit for Pioneer Sand