Peter Grenney

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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

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,

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

We may have missed you Apologies if we missed an email response to the last newsletter from you. We experienced technical difficulties that have been fixed. Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing from you. 💌 aspen@civicaspen.com What's happening... (ACC - Aspen City Council,

Peter Grenney & Alexandra George here piloting a new bi-weekly newsletter to capture local government topics to help the community stay informed and be proactive. In the coming weeks we'll be launching CivicAspen with a website as an evolution of Aspen Deserves Better. Going forward the focus is