{"id":254229,"date":"2026-07-29T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254229\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:36:09","slug":"colorado-springs-city-council-approves-first-reading-of-south-nevada-security-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254229\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Springs city council approves first reading of South Nevada security ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; The Colorado Springs City Council passed the first reading of an ordinance Tuesday that would use nearly $458,000 in marijuana sales tax revenue to fund increased security along South Nevada Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The measure passed 7-2. If approved at a second reading, the city would contract with the Colorado Springs Urban Renewal Authority to carry out the security plan.<\/p>\n<p>Security plan details<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Under the ordinance, the city would hire Fidelis Security, a third-party security company, to station six guards per day, seven days a week in the South Nevada area. The company would also operate a drone to monitor the area for 12 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The $458,000 allocated for the project would come from the city\u2019s marijuana sales tax fund, which has generated $6 million total.<\/p>\n<p>Business owner cites crime concerns<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The owner of Edelweiss Restaurant near Ramona Avenue and South Nevada Avenue said crime and theft have been ongoing issues in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere is open drug use, there is vagrancy, theft&#8230;people coming in I have had stuff stolen from the bathroom, I have had stuff stolen from the patio and back dock. So yeah it\u2019s for sure a problem around here,\u201d said Dieter Schnakenberg, owner of Edelweiss Restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The ordinance must pass a second council vote before it can take effect.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; The Colorado Springs City Council passed the first reading of an ordinance Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-254229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}