{"id":2424169,"date":"2019-01-07T22:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T05:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-voters-to-decide-redevelopment-of-aspen-mountains-base\/"},"modified":"2019-01-07T22:16:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T05:16:01","slug":"aspen-voters-to-decide-redevelopment-of-aspen-mountains-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-voters-to-decide-redevelopment-of-aspen-mountains-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen voters to decide redevelopment of Aspen Mountain\u2019s base"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a 3-2 decision, Aspen City Council voted Monday to refer to Aspen voters on March 5 two ordinances governing the redevelopment of the base of Aspen Mountain’s west side \u2014 along with a $4.36 million taxpayer subsidy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mayor Steve Skadron and Councilman Bert Myrin were the dissenting votes.<\/p>\n

Skadron said he was not only “unsettled” but “disturbed” that the majority of council would agree to give developers public money to build their lodging properties.<\/p>\n

He also said it is council’s job to vote on land-use applications regardless of whether it opens up government to potential lawsuits.<\/p>\n

Referring it to the voters is a cop-out and allows the conversation leading up to the election to be cast as if the city is giving developers a handout, Skadron added.<\/p>\n

He said the Lift One Corridor project is the best he’s seen for the Lift 1A side of the mountain, but without taxpayer subsidies.<\/p>\n

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Myrin didn’t support the financial public-private partnership and the breaks developers received on affordable-housing mitigation.<\/p>\n

After Monday’s meeting, Myrin estimated that it was close to a $20 million burden on the community.<\/p>\n

“It was a very uncomfortable feeling not to make this the best it can be at the council table before sending it to the voters,” he said via email.<\/p>\n

The other council members \u2014 Ann Mullins, Adam Frisch and Ward Hauenstein \u2014 support the subsidy, arguing that it is an important development for the future of Aspen as a resort community.<\/p>\n

The $4.36 million would be put in an irrevocable bank account to be released when a new chairlift is spinning. The money would likely come as loan from the flush Wheeler Opera House RETT fund.<\/p>\n

The ordinances<\/a>, which combined are 88 pages, detail the approvals for an 81-room hotel known as the Gorsuch Haus and a 104-key Lift One Lodge timeshare project. Both properties also have free-market condominiums.<\/p>\n

In between those properties would be a new telemix chairlift that extends about 500 feet farther down the hill than where the current Lift 1A is located.<\/p>\n

Other amenities in the entire Lift One Corridor proposal are a ski museum, skier services and ski patrol operations in a relocated and refurbished Skiers Chalet Lodge to be situated next to the lift at Dean Street.<\/p>\n

There also is a restaurant and bar planned for the Skiers Steakhouse building, as well as public parking and ski lockers, and other amenities.<\/p>\n

csackariason@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a 3-2 decision, Aspen City Council voted Monday to refer to Aspen voters on March 5 two ordinances governing the redevelopment of the base of Aspen Mountain’s west side \u2014 along with a $4.36 million taxpayer subsidy. Mayor Steve Skadron and Councilman Bert Myrin were the dissenting votes. Skadron said he was not only […]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2424169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 22:54:00","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}