Monte Vista council adopts model traffic code, approves design amendment and budget changes; replat OK’d for Dollar General

The Monte Vista City Council on a September 2025 meeting night took a series of formal actions, including adopting the 2025 Model Traffic Code by reference, approving a design-contract amendment related to two surface-transportation grants, passing a budget amendment and approving a replat that consolidates three lots for a proposed Dollar General site.

Top takeaways: The council voted to adopt the 2025 Model Traffic Code as the city's traffic ordinance, approved an amendment to the city’s design contract for combined MMOF and HSIP projects that adds design tasks and purchase-of-temporary-easement work, adopted a resolution amending the 2025 budget, approved an amendment to the nuisance-abatement code on first reading to allow temporary restraining orders in some cases, and approved a replat consolidating lots 6, 7 and 11 in block 5 to allow the Dollar General project to move forward.

Why it matters: The model traffic code brings the city’s traffic regulations into alignment with a current statewide model and standardizes enforcement categories, penalties and definitions. The design amendment combines a multimodal sidewalk project and a highway intersection safety project into a single contract to gain economies of scale and to address projected shortfalls in construction funds. The nuisance-abatement change adds a temporary restraining-order procedure intended for urgent public-safety situations; it was initiated at the request of the municipal judge. The replat clears a property-assembly hurdle for a…