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This week: Candidates, Ballot Questions, Landfill

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Crystal Palace, Castle Creek Bridge, Lumberyard, Voter Turnout

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) 🧐 West Wall of Crystal Palace The COA will consider calling up HPC's decision on the Crystal Palace approval that includes what to do with the non historic, but highly sentimental, owl mural

Lumberyard Costs, Park Improvements, 2025 Budgets

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) 🪵 Lumberyard Stacking Costs Last Tuesday, the ACC heard an update from staff on the Lumberyard budget & schedule. The budget for the horizontal infrastructure, Phase 0, has increased 3x from $14.25M to $45M,

Airport Noise Monitoring, Armory Addition, Lumberyard RFP

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) 🛫  Airport Noise Monitoring Kicks Off Aspen’s new noise monitoring program for the airport is officially underway, gathering data to help the community understand the impact of airport noise. This is part of broader

AH Concept, Community Survey Results, Election Ballot

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) 🏠 West End Affordable Housing at US Forest Service Site Council will get an update on the conceptual partnership for affordable housing at the 2.13-acre Forest Service Administrative site. A high-density option envisions 57

Castle Creek Bridge, Airport, Property Tax on the Ballot

🏗️ Castle Creek Bridge and "Entrance to Aspen" Decision Delayed The City Council has decided to delay decisions on the Castle Creek Bridge and the "Entrance to Aspen" until December, pending the results of a new inspection by the Colorado Department of Transportation to assess the bridge’

Bridge Replacement, Airport Future, and City Updates

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) 🌉 Castle Creek Bridge Replacement Needed After a more than an hour of public comment at its August 12 work session, City Council seemed closer to making a decision on the Castle Creek Bridge. More

Castle Creek Bridge, Airport, Demo Allotments

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) 🌉 Castle Creek Bridge Headed to a Vote? Council plans back-to-back work sessions on Aug 5th and Aug 12th, to review options for rebuilding Castle Creek Bridge, and potentially consider other options for the Entrance

New Tax Proposals, Infrastructure Projects, and ACRA to the Armory

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) ✈️ Airport Updates BOCC convenes tomorrow in Executive Session to discuss the proposed ballot measure by Citizens Against Bigger Planes. The ballot measure is to amend Pitkin County's home rule charter preventing the

Lumberyard, Buy Downs, Airport Runway

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) 🪵 Lumberyard infrastructure & RFQ Staff gives an update on the strong field of responses to the Request For Qualification from developers and asks council to discuss the approach to the Request For Proposal process.

Theatre, Bike Skills Trail, BOCC Primary

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) 🎭 Act 2 for Theatre in the park Council is being asked whether they support Theatre Aspen's request to pursue a 292-seat permanent theatre in Rio Grande Park. 🩺 PitCo economy check up The

Castle Creek Bridge, Armory and Airport

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) 🌉 The Bridge to Renovation Investigation  The ACC approved a $639,829 contract with Jacobs Engineering to expand the investigation of the aging Castle Creek Bridge, which was built in 1961 and is nearing the

Emergency Moratorium, Affordable Housing, Litigation

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) ❌ Emergency rural Short Term Rental moratorium BOCC will discuss an emergency moratorium on Short Term Rentals in rural/remote zone districts in the county. Packet material will be distributed on the day of the

Childcare, Public Art, Climate Action

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) 🧱 Building blocks for new childcare The Burlingame Early Childhood Education Center project looks to move through ACC's 1st reading towards approval to develop a 39k sf facility that will accommodate 94 children

Airport, Parking, Castle Creek Bridge

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) ✈️ Airport Layout Plan gets dispatched to BOCC Wednesday the BOCC will be asked to adopt a two read Resolution accepting the Airport Advisory Board's vote to approve the Alternative to the Airport

New Trail, Pickleball, STRs

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) ⛰ New trails ahead: A new nearly mile-long trail from the roundabout to the Rec Center breaks ground in April aiming to improve school safety, address the rising use of e-bikes to Maroon Bells, and

Energy Code, Airport, Redstone Castle

What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council, BOCC - Pitkin Board of County Commissioners) ⚡️ Lightening the Energy Load: Wednesday's BOCC meeting will be the 4th reading for reducing the exterior energy budget in the county to 200 million BTUs, limiting pools, spas, snowmelt, and outdoor heating.

Demo permits, Downtowner and more

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