Look at the growth of the town of Erie and the dilemma in which it might find itself, and you could say the town already has taken baby steps down the slippery slope to municipal ruin.
Look at growth in Erie another way, and the town is on the glide path to success, a path smoothed by the town’s construction of a new library and a recreation center.
Some say that, in view of Erie’s losing hand in local annexation wars, efforts to woo commercial developers are too little too late. Erie will become a kind of downscale Aspen, with service and construction workers forced to commute into Erie while upscale residents commute to work in Boulder or Denver.
“It’s certainly not sustainable to be so heavily reliant on construction to pay the bills. That obviously can’t continue forever,” says Brendan Ruiz, president of Sustainable Erie Inc., a nonprofit interest group.
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