Pitkin County commissioners at a work session Tuesday asked for additional information about proposed changes to the county’s short-term rental regulations that would make more properties eligible for a license, while implementing new STR caps tailored to different areas.
Category: Wealth and Property
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Short-term rental market continues to shrink in Aspen and Pitkin County
Stricter short-term rental rules passed four years ago by Aspen and Pitkin County are achieving their stated aims of limiting the vacation-rental marketplace, while also raising questions about the programs’ fitness, adaptability and unintended consequences.
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The Aspen 80
There have never been more billionaires in the world—3,028, by Forbes’ count, crossing the 3,000 threshold for the first time in 2025. It stands to reason that there also have never been more billionaires in Aspen, their collective influence shaping the community’s social fabric.
Posted inHistory, Land Use, Wealth and Property
Portal into time: Mine owner wants to preserve Aspen Mountain history
The Compromise Mine on Aspen Mountain is the site of a historic reckoning between populists and Gilded Age capitalists
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Crowns say they’re not funding Hunt’s Aspen projects
“Prior to July, 2010, Crown family members were invested with Mark Hunt in several Chicago properties. Since that date, there has been no business relationship with Mr. Hunt whatsoever.”
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How the Aspen Art Museum was approved
People are talking about the new museum’s wooden basket-weave look, its big views of Aspen Mountain from the “public penthouse” on the third floor, and how the building fits in with the neighborhood.
Posted inEnvironment, Land Use, Wealth and Property
Little Annie is rural and remote, but will it stay that way?
Pitkin County’s rural and remote zone district was adopted in 1994 in large part to preserve the Little Annie area.
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The Aspen 50: billionaires of Pitkin County
There are now more than 1,600 billionaires in the world, and at least fifty of them have stakes in the Aspen area — primarily through their ownership of real estate in Pitkin County.
Posted inLand Use, Pitkin County, Wealth and Property
County officials ‘not impressed’ with efforts to restore wedding meadow
On Friday July 11 about half of the 2-acre wedding site, which is right off a public road at about 10,700 feet, appeared to be dry, bare dirt.
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Miller challenges county on party-tent moratorium
Little Annie’s landowner urges officials to “table” their moratorium on party tents in the rural and remote zone.