Federal and state officials, along with a trio of Garfield County commissioners, heard loud and clear from 30 of the citizens at the meeting that drilling for gas in the Thompson-Divide area was not a good idea.
Category: Land Use
Posted inLand Use, Pitkin County
County signs off on USFS plan for Hunter-Smuggler area
The Hunter-Smuggler plan describes improvements to a 4,681-acre area on Forest Service property adjacent to a 234-acre open space parcel owned by the city and the county on the lower face of Smuggler Mountain.
Posted inLand Use, Pitkin County
County tweaks rules on photo and film shoots
Pitkin County Attorney John Ely told commissioners that the new regulations for helicopter use did not in any way attempt to regulate the general use of air space over Pitkin County or infringe on the authority of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Posted inLand Use
County is making new plans for the ‘gateway to Aspen’
A new master plan is expected to guide development at the airport, the Airport Business Center (ABC), the Buttermilk ski area, the Inn at Aspen and other properties along Highway 82.
Posted inLand Use, Wealth and Property
City study finds Aspen not hospitable to new hotels, condos
The price of land in downtown Aspen now makes it highly unlikely that a new stand-alone, moderately priced hotel will be built there again, according to research and interviews conducted recently by the city of Aspen.
Posted inAspen Desk, Land Use, Wealth and Property
The Windstar property and John Denver’s legacy in question
The Windstar Land Conservancy is seeking to sell the 957-acre Windstar property bought by John Denver in the late 1970s. The asking price is $13.5 million.
Posted inEnvironment, Land Use, Wealth and Property
Fuel sales could boost airport rent revenues
ASPEN – Pitkin County could receive at least $3 million in annual rent from a proposed new private jet center—a sum that is 16 times more than what the current fixed-base operator pays at Sardy Field.
Posted inLand Use, Wealth and Property
Public in Paonia says privacy doesn’t justify Bear Ranch land swap
An effort to privatize access to public lands prompts debate.
Posted inLand Use, Skiing
Powder to the People fought the law – and the law won
USFS makes a call on access to Powder Tours terrain
Posted inLand Use, Wealth and Property
Bear Ranch and the price of privacy
It’s part Dodge City, part Neverland.