Crested Butte
GOVERNMENT
Council letting a cut continue to fester
It sure is busy for off-season. Lord knows there is no shortage of things to write about this week alone: local students getting a $180 life lesson in camping and drinking etiquette after being busted by Forest Service law enforcement officers at their graduation campout; developers being told in Mt. CB that, “development has to pay its own way” and that probably includes writing a check for expanding capacity for the main sewer line in town; GCEA board candidates getting frisky over a Boulder nonprofit and election rules; the state Supreme Court saying a CBMR waiver doesn’t cover every single accident at the resort; and even the opportunity to have coffee with a real live town council member! But on page 2 this week we’ll go with the cut that just can’t seem to heal—potential expansion of winter town parking prohibitions.
CB agrees to start Paradise Park housing
While acknowledging there was not an infinite amount of money to be spent on affordable housing projects, the Crested Butte town council agreed on May 29 to proceed with the Paradise Park Phase 1 housing project to be built by contractor High Mountain Concepts (HMC). The nine-unit first phase development will cost about $5.1 million and construction will begin in mid-June. John Stock of HMC told the council he was confident the units would be ready for a temporary certificate of occupancy by next March. The second phase will include five more units. Both phases will be financed by a so-called certificate of participation (COP) bond of approximately $8.1 million.
Town and fire district reach agreement for sewer service
District will be out of current building six months after C.O. is issued. With little debate, the Crested Butte town council unanimously passed a resolution on May 29 approving a utility extension agreement to provide sewer services to the Crested Butte Fire Protection District (CBFPD) as part of its new safety campus. That project is slated for summer construction just north of the town boundary by the cemetery along Gothic Road.
CB council split on how to restrict winter parking
Slow it down with local registration — or go all in. The Crested Butte town council appears split on whether they should allow people driving vehicles registered in Gunnison County to park on the streets near the Mountain Express bus stops along Sixth Street for more than two hours at a time next ski season. The split is between council members who want to slowly implement more parking management regulations that give some slack to locals using town streets as a park-and-ride to catch the Mountain Express to the ski hill in that Sixth Street area, while others on the council are ready to move faster and implement more stringent action that limits parking to two hours during certain daytime hours on those streets for everyone who doesn’t live nearby.
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