{"id":2448107,"date":"2019-08-28T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-mountain-expansion-plan-does-not-get-pitkin-county-support-skico-will-re-examine-proposal\/"},"modified":"2019-08-29T08:28:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T14:28:39","slug":"aspen-mountain-expansion-plan-does-not-get-pitkin-county-support-skico-will-re-examine-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-mountain-expansion-plan-does-not-get-pitkin-county-support-skico-will-re-examine-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Mountain expansion plan does not get Pitkin County support; Skico will re-examine proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/pandoraplan-atd-031218-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/pandoraplan-atd-031218-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/pandoraplan-atd-031218-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/pandoraplan-atd-031218-1-325x216.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/pandoraplan-atd-031218-1-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>The top terminal of the proposed Pandora chairlift would be on Richmond Ridge, south of the top terminal of the Silver Queen Gondola.<\/strong><br \/><em>Aspen Times file<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen Skiing Co.\u2019s plan to expand Aspen Mountain ski area into the Pandora\u2019s terrain failed to earn the support Tuesday of the Pitkin County Commissioners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The board was deadlocked 2-2 on a critical rezoning necessary for the expansion. Commissioners Steve Child and Kelly McNicholas Kury opposed the rezoning. Commissioners George Newman and Greg Poschman supported it, though Poschman said he had several conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Commissioner Patti Clapper isn\u2019t voting on the matter because her son-in-law works for Skico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Skico officials asked the commissioners to continue the review rather than take a formal vote. David Corbin, Skico vice president of planning and development, said the company would appreciate a chance to respond to the comments made by the commissioners and possibly amend their application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The commissioners\u2019 voted to continue the hearing on Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">This is a developing story that will be updated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-mountain-expansion-plan-does-not-get-pitkin-county-support-skico-will-re-examine-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top terminal of the proposed Pandora chairlift would be on Richmond Ridge, south of the top terminal of the Silver Queen Gondola.Aspen Times file Aspen Skiing Co.\u2019s plan to expand Aspen Mountain ski area into the Pandora\u2019s terrain failed to earn the support Tuesday of the Pitkin County Commissioners. The board was deadlocked 2-2 [&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":["post-2448107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-20 14:30:36","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\/2448107","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=2448107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448144,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448107\/revisions\/2448144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}