{"id":2452473,"date":"2019-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=318057"},"modified":"2019-12-21T12:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T19:00:58","slug":"gridlock-ok-but-shiny-tents-an-aspen-blight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/gridlock-ok-but-shiny-tents-an-aspen-blight\/","title":{"rendered":"Gridlock OK, but shiny tents an Aspen blight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It is wonderful that the city of Aspen has a provision \u201cthat temporary structures should not be reflective or shiny\u201d and that \u201cthe land-use code and the commercial design standards and guidelines were written to reflect the community\u2019s desire to generally prohibit, and if allowed, permit only the temporary use of fabric or tent like enclosures.\u201d (Dec. 18, Aspen Daily News).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Yet the city does nothing to minimize the 20- to 40-minute backup of traffic to get the last mile or so into town from the Aspen Business Center. Oh, yes, it is important for the town to look so pristine while ignoring the feces fest that is the working-class traffic into the lovely \u201cno shiny tents\u201d town. Oh, yeah, the upper-class second-home (or third-home) owners also sit in that traffic when they land at the airport and are then chauffeured into town. It\u2019s like I and them are equal if only for those 20 to 40 minutes \u2026 not really, I guess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I\u2019m in a Prius and they are in Escalades and Rovers! Enjoy the ride \u2026 or idle wait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">John Norman<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/gridlock-ok-but-shiny-tents-an-aspen-blight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is wonderful that the city of Aspen has a provision \u201cthat temporary structures should not be reflective or shiny\u201d and that \u201cthe land-use code and the commercial design standards and guidelines were written to reflect the community\u2019s desire to generally prohibit, and if allowed, permit only the temporary use of fabric or tent like [&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-2452473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 01:08:12","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\/2452473","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=2452473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452485,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452473\/revisions\/2452485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}