{"id":2425218,"date":"2019-01-09T19:52:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T02:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/lift-1a-and-the-fleecing-of-aspen\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T02:52:01","slug":"lift-1a-and-the-fleecing-of-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/lift-1a-and-the-fleecing-of-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lift 1A and the fleecing of Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big thank you, voters of Aspen, if you vote for the Lift 1 corridor project March 5! I don’t live in Aspen but I visit frequently. And your generosity in spending about $3,000 per resident in direct and indirect subsidies for developers on the redevelopment of the west side of the mountain is, well, truly incredible.<\/p>\n

That’s the number you get if you divide the $20 million that Councilman Bert Myrin (“Aspen voters to decide redevelopment of Aspen Mountain’s base,”<\/a> Jan. 8, The Aspen Times) estimates that taxpayers will spend on the 1A corridor project by the 6,658 residents of Aspen.<\/p>\n

I wonder if the folks of Aspen understand what they’ll actually end up paying in taxes for this?<\/p>\n

I certainly wouldn’t be as generous with my town of Aptos, California, as you are. But hey, I don’t live in Aspen!<\/p>\n

Oh, yes: Hope you are figuring a way of saving those big beautiful trees that have been on South Aspen Street forever and look like they’re in the construction area.<\/p>\n

Thanks in advance!<\/p>\n

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Zoe Farley<\/p>\n

Aptos, California<\/p>\n

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

Big thank you, voters of Aspen, if you vote for the Lift 1 corridor project March 5! I don’t live in Aspen but I visit frequently. And your generosity in spending about $3,000 per resident in direct and indirect subsidies for developers on the redevelopment of the west side of the mountain is, well, truly […]<\/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-2425218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 01:41:41","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\/2425218","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=2425218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}