By K.W. Harp Herald Staff Writer Growth is the cause of most of the problems in Durango, said Tom Howley, a candidate for the Durango City Council. There are three seats open in this year s council election, and Howley wants one of them. He announced his candidacy Friday. Problems with housing, parking, traffic and the stretching of city services are all born from growth, Howley said. It creates problems.
Growth is inevitable.
We have to manage it intelligently. He has mixed feelings on the possible annexation of the Grandview corridor, he said. He wants more facts and more input from Durango and Grandview citizens before he makes a decision. A retired naval aviator from Scranton, Pa., Howley still does consulting work for an international security consulting company via telephone and e-mail. He ran a machining facility in Bodo Industrial Park for three years.