Superior officials Monday night resoundingly rejected an ordinance that would allow golf carts and other electric vehicles on public roads.
Mayor Clint Folsom, who had spearheaded the idea, offered the sole ceremonial vote in favor of the measure’s passing. “I do think that people are intelligent enough to not drive these things in the snow or leave their house with them half charged,” Folsom said. “I remain optimistic that someday it could happen but I fully acknowledge all of the challenges that have been brought here tonight. If it’s not meant to be it’s not meant to be.”
Among those challenges included questions regarding the measure’s oversight for the stunted connectability from limitations on where, exactly, residents could drive; issues over how they would be insured; where they could be parked and, perhaps most notably, concerns regarding users’ safety as they traversed the 4-square-mile town among faster-moving cars.
If the measure had been approved Monday night, Superior would have followed in the footsteps of neighboring towns such as Erie and Lyons, which both passed similar ordinances more than six years ago.
The measure would have allowed the use of alternative-fuel vehicles throughout the small but quickly-growing town, including electric vehicles, officials said Friday, adding that Colorado law regulates the use of such vehicles and established procedures for municipalities to regulate their use on local streets.
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