Steve’s Community Service and Career

Current member,
Glenwood Springs Transportation Commission

• Timely recommendations to city council and staff regarding transportation options, traffic and parking

• Annual update to Long Range Transportation Plan, including prioritizing major projects

• Proposed updates to transportation-related city engineering standards

• Provides local travel observations to city staff

Successful campaign leader

• Managed the valley-wide campaign to strengthen RFTA, build the Rio Grande Trail to Aspen and bring bus service to Glenwood Springs

• Led the city campaign to build the River Trail from 23rd Street to Two Rivers Park in Glenwood Springs.

Founding member,
Glenwood Springs River Commission

• Devised and recommended Hillside Preservation Ordinance

• Secured voter-approved funding for River Trail (23rd Street to Two Rivers Park)

• Established construction standards for the city-wide bicycle and pedestrian paths network

• Staged the city’s first major riverbank clean-up (16 dump truck loads of debris!), which continues as part of RiverFEST

WARD 5 FOCUSED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Neighborhood design: Steve has lived in Glenwood Springs since 1989, before Cardiff Glen, Park West and Park East were built. When these developments were proposed, he got involved in the planning process. He wanted to make sure these neighborhoods would be pleasant and affordable places to live.

Steve didn’t oppose these projects – he worked with City Council and the developers to make them fit our community and welcome our new neighbors.

Over the past 35 years, Steve has advocated for:

• A widened sidewalk along Midland Avenue on the west side of Park West, for a safe route to Sopris Elementary.

• The cut-through connection to Park West from the Three Mile - Atkinson Ditch Trail.

• The riverside trail along the east edge of Park East.

• A wide walking path along Airport Road between Cardiff Glen and Sopris Elementary.

• Safe crossings at the Four Mile-Midland-Airport Road Roundabout.

• Approval of the Streets and Infrastructure Fund, putting Glenwood Park streets and underground utilities high on the list.

Professional work

American Rivers

• River protections in national forest management plans

Wilderness Society

• Six federal wilderness bills for Colorado

• Reliable management of potential wilderness areas

Sierra Club

• Energy efficiency programs

• Wildlands protection advocacy

U.S. Congressman David Skaggs, Colorado 2nd District

• Wild streams protection in Rocky Mountain National Park

• Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993

• Hazardous waste sites clean-up

• Negotiated a municipal water supply from a national forest

Colorado Outward Bound School

• Field logistics in Colorado and Utah

University of Colorado Environmental Center

• Student engagement and education

• Public speaker series and conferences

• Campus-wide recycling program

Recycle Something

• Co-founder and manager of citywide recycling program in Fort Collins

Awards

From Colorado Gov. Roy Romer

1995 Colorado. Don’t Let It Go To Waste Award for Outstanding Individuals (with spouse Heather McGregor)

From the U.S. Forest Service

2009 Bob Marshall Award for Individual Champion of Wilderness Stewardship