{"id":800685,"date":"2019-10-24T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=373483"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T21:30:01","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-county-should-pave-peak-7-with-taxes-from-homeowners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-county-should-pave-peak-7-with-taxes-from-homeowners\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: County should pave Peak 7 with taxes from homeowners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/LettersWebCard-SDN1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>I am writing to express my considered and normative opinion<br \/>\nregarding the Peak 7 paving issue. I support the eventual paving project but<br \/>\nnot in its current iteration that places the burden on the landowners and<br \/>\nprovides Summit County with a asset that will be used to later increase the<br \/>\nassessor\u2019s valuation of the adjourning properties. The payment for what should<br \/>\nbe the county\u2019s responsibility does not make for common, logical or rational<br \/>\nsense. The main roads in question are those traveled from the top of Summit<br \/>\nCounty Road 911, proceed along the road bed known as American Way (C.R. 906)<br \/>\nconnecting to Ski Hill Road (C.R. 3) and joins to paved portions at\/near The<br \/>\nGrand Lodge on Peak 7 at the town limits of Breckenridge. But only part of this<br \/>\nroadway is being considered for paving. This road description is also<br \/>\ndesignated as a \u201ccollector\u201d for traffic purposes. As such, the county should be<br \/>\nutilizing the already collected taxes from the existing property owners to pave<br \/>\nthe roads, as defined by state statute and precedent. Look at the line items on<br \/>\nyour property assessment, and you will find a heading \u201cSummit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This roadway serves as a main corridor for traffic seeking<br \/>\nto avoid the congestion of the town and access the Peak 7 and Peak 8 ski<br \/>\nfacilities. At the very least, the county should be diligent in the fulfillment<br \/>\nof its obligations.<\/p>\n<p>County officials have pleaded no funds for such purposes,<br \/>\nbut they seem to have found funding for a myriad of discretionary programs that<br \/>\nwould be in the social engineering categories, not to mention the provision of<br \/>\na \u201cfree\u201d Summit Stage from the county coffers. But no service to the taxpayers<br \/>\nof the Peak 7 area. Perhaps, \u201cwe the people\u201d need to pay closer attention to<br \/>\nthose who seem to be breaching their fiduciary trust with regard to the<br \/>\npeople\u2019s money? Simply put, property owner taxpayers should be served first by<br \/>\ngovernment with their own money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-county-should-pave-peak-7-with-taxes-from-homeowners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing to express my considered and normative opinion regarding the Peak 7 paving issue. I support the eventual paving project but not in its current iteration that places the burden on the landowners and provides Summit County with a asset that will be used to later increase the assessor\u2019s valuation of the adjourning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 13:14:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}