Little information released on conservation-program proposals
But in addition to redacting the applicants’ personal identifying information, nearly everything else has been blacked out as well: the location of the projects, such as which streams and ditches are involved; details of the water rights involved; and how much the applicants are asking to be paid for their water.
Data dashboard: Roaring Fork basin snowpack keeps rising after recent storms
• Snowpack at McClure Pass reached 181% of median on March 26. • Lake Powell’s elevation was at 3,521.8 feet on March 28, or 3.2 feet below target elevation. • Aspen recorded three days of ‘moderate’ air quality last week.
The Runoff | Winter in the shade
I think it was Charles Dickens who described a March day as summer in the light, and winter in the shade. This year there’s been a lot more of winter in the shade, a welcome circumstance for water managers. All those overcast days could even be part of the reason for more snow accumulation at low-elevation SNOTEL sites,…
The Roundup | Tracking the Curve will cease; reporting on SCP applications will not
Three years after the first COVID-19 case was reported in Colorado and Pitkin County, this week’s update of “Tracking the Curve” will be the last. Over the past few months, the data has become less reliable as people rely more on at-home testing, resulting in fewer cases and positive tests being reported to the state and local public…
Garfield County commissioners defend Uinta Basin Railway against local opposition
Tracking the Curve
West Slope water managers will not review, approve applications for conservation program
Nonprofit coalition aims to buy down homes to create affordable housing
UINTA BASIN RAILWAY COVERAGE CONTINUED
Uinta Basin Railway opposition unites Colorado towns, Utah backcountry residents
Uinta Basin Railway faces obstacles
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Colorado Springs seeks to keep water rights tied to dams, reservoirs
Report sheds light on child care capacity gap across the Aspen-to-Parachute region
ASPEN/PITKIN COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY DATA SERIES
APCHA’s RO category supports a growing number of million-dollar homes
The concept of RO — housing locals who don’t otherwise fit into the numbered categories and accommodating properties that also couldn’t easily be categorized — is an important one in one of the country’s most robust affordable-housing programs. But, is it working?
Inventory shows who lives in APCHA deed-restricted ownership housing
The APCHA ownership inventory can be viewed in two market segments. One, with fewer restrictions on owner qualifications and valuations, is managed under the “resident occupied” (RO) category. The second, larger segment, with price caps determined via a set of categories based on buyers’ income and assets, saw median pricing in 2021 that was less than half of the median RO sale price.
RECENT EVENTS
EVENT: High Country film screening and panel discussion
Aspen Journalism is partnering with filmmaker, community coalition to present free film screening event on March 11 at Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen at 5:30 p.m.
Going to extremes to get the story
“I’m attracted to people living in ways my friends don’t know about or understand,” Conover said. “Aspen is a bit of an exception to that rule, but it is an extremity, so I was attracted to Aspen for the same reason.”
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The Roundup | Buydown assistance pilot program aims to shift housing paradigm
“Show what it’s like to have a home.” Vague as it might be, that was the direction photographer Daniel Bayer and I settled on before he made his way to Eagle to meet the Carlton family, to gather images for our story published this week by freelancer Andrew Travers, about the efforts of a new…
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The Runoff | Legislation, funding applications and instream flow loans
The opening weeks of 2023 have been filled with legislative updates and new bills, state water board news, Colorado River…