{"id":2440821,"date":"2019-02-20T20:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T03:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/watch-closely-what-aspen-skiing-co-is-doing\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T20:16:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T03:16:01","slug":"watch-closely-what-aspen-skiing-co-is-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/watch-closely-what-aspen-skiing-co-is-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch closely what Aspen Skiing Co. is doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Way back when, the city of Aspen and Pitkin County used to have a joint planning department and decisions were made collectively by Aspen City Council and the Board of County Commissioners, considering the impact on both Aspen and also Pitkin County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Enter the new era of fragmented and disjointed decision-making, which has Aspen and Pitkin County considering two separate development proposals by Aspen Skiing Co. or its proxies, on Aspen Mountain \u2014 without discussing the collective impact of those applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In Aspen, voters are being asked to upzone Skico land from &#8220;conservation&#8221; to &#8220;lodge.&#8221; Meanwhile, in Pitkin County, Skico is asking to upzone some 130 acres of rural- and remote-zoned land along Richmond Ridge to SKI-REC, which would potentially allow an unlimited number of &#8220;resort cabins,&#8221; among other uses, in the backcountry Pitkin County claims to protect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Pay attention, Aspen and Pitkin County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Marcella Larsen<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/watch-closely-what-aspen-skiing-co-is-doing\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back when, the city of Aspen and Pitkin County used to have a joint planning department and decisions were made collectively by Aspen City Council and the Board of County Commissioners, considering the impact on both Aspen and also Pitkin County. Enter the new era of fragmented and disjointed decision-making, which has Aspen and [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2440821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 04:20:17","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&#039;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\/2440821","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=2440821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}