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Peter Grenney

This week: 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

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

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

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

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,

Here we go!

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