Oct. 6 The City published the dissolution as law without sending it to the Mayor, and has given three different reasons. The DDA board is weighing court. The record →
Decisions about the Westside should be made by the people who live and work here.
United Westside is a coalition of Westside residents and business owners. We show up at City Hall, we keep track of what gets decided about us, and we make sure the Westside speaks with one voice when it counts.
Our first campaign · Final vote Tuesday, Sept. 22
Our first campaign · Now it's the Mayor's call
Our first campaign · The Westside held
Our first campaign · What happens next
Our first campaign · The City says it's over. The Charter says otherwise.
The Westside voted. City Council wants to overrule you. Council voted to overrule the Westside. Mayor Mobolade can stop it. The OCC DDA is still standing. Council dissolved the OCC DDA. The City says the DDA is dissolved. It skipped the step the Charter requires.
A veto sends the ordinance back to a Council that needs six votes to override. It passed with five. yemi.mobolade@coloradosprings.gov · (719) 385-5900
On Sept. 22 Council voted 5–4 to dissolve the DDA. The Charter sends every ordinance to the Mayor to sign or veto. The City did not send this one. It published it as law on Oct. 1 and has given three different reasons why the Mayor had no say. The DDA board says an ordinance adopted outside the Charter has not been adopted, and is weighing whether to ask a court. The two signature pages, side by side → A recall petition against Councilmember Williams has been started by a citywide political organization that does not speak for the Westside. We are not part of it.
Old Colorado City can go back to the ballot. Get on the list and we will tell you what is real and what is next.
In 2024, Old Colorado City voters created a Downtown Development Authority — a board of OCC business and property owners deciding how to invest in OCC, funded by money generated in OCC. On August 25, 2026, City Council voted 5–4 on first reading to dissolve it, before it had been allowed to spend a single dollar.
Second reading — the final vote — was set for Sept. 8. Council postponed it, unanimously, to Tuesday, Sept. 22. If it passes, the DDA that Old Colorado City voted for is gone. One councilmember changing their mind is all it takes to stop it.
On Sept. 22 it passed on second reading, 5–4 again. The ordinance now goes to Mayor Mobolade, who has five days from receiving it to sign or veto. A veto sends it back to a Council that would need six votes to override. The letter that arrived four days before the vote, checked.
The dissolution did not go through. The board can now finish its Plan of Development and take a mill levy back to Old Colorado City voters, which is how this was always supposed to work.
The Mayor can still end this with one request: that the ordinance be presented to him, as the Charter says it shall. He has said nothing in public for two weeks. Whatever comes next, in a courtroom or on a 2027 ballot, the Westside will need to be in one place at one time. That is what the list is for.
It passed on second reading. The full record of how it happened, and of who voted which way, stays up.
On Sept. 18 the Urban Renewal Authority's director told Council the 2024 election can't be trusted. We checked every claim against the certified record.
What we're for
Local control over local issues
The people who live and work on the Westside should decide what happens here. That is the whole principle, and the DDA fight is one application of it. There will be others.
Somebody in the room
Council meets at 9 a.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month, which is a hard time to make if you open a shop. We read the agendas, sit through the meetings, and tell you what actually happened.
One voice when it counts
A room full of Westsiders on the right morning moves a 5–4 vote; the same people complaining separately over a year does not. A list is how the Westside gets to be in one place at one time.
The long haul
United Westside is new, and it exists because of what happened to the DDA. It is built to still be here after Tuesday, whichever way Tuesday goes.
Join
Residents and business owners both. We'll email you when something on the Westside needs you in a room or on the record — not otherwise.
We don't sell or rent the list, and we don't run trackers on this site.
Sources
- Pikes Peak Bulletin, “Fight to save OCC Downtown Development Authority,” Aug. 21, 2026 — pikespeakbulletin.org
- Pikes Peak Bulletin, “Council votes to dissolve OCC DDA,” Aug. 27, 2026 — pikespeakbulletin.org
- Colorado Springs Gazette, Brennen Kauffman, “City Council votes to dissolve Old Colorado City Downtown Development Authority,” Aug. 26, 2026 — gazette.com
- FOX21 News, Carolynn Felling, “City Council to vote on Development Authority in OCC,” Aug. 31, 2026, updated Sept. 1 — fox21news.com
- City of Colorado Springs, City Council meetings — coloradosprings.gov/city-council-meetings
- OCC DDA agendas and minutes — oldcoloradocity.org