More Moratoriums, More Or Less
August 28th, 2006 at 06:04am Post Staff 43
The news that the Aspen City Council and city planners are mulling an extension of the moratorium on building in Aspen brings the initial thoughts of bloggers Jerry Bovino and Michael Conniff about the idea to bear.
Blogger Jerry Bovino, a retired opthamologist, likened Aspen to a patient.
“Let's consider taking our child to a pediatrician for a growth and development consult,” Bovino blogged. “We want out child to stay healthy, keep their normal weight and grow with their years. Would any of us take our son or daughter to a Pediatrician who advocated a regimen of steroids to put on weight (infill legislation), vomiting (construction overload) and then starvation (Moratorium.) I don't think so! It just ain't healthy!”
Michael Conniff, in turn, was concerned by the paucity of ideas behind the original moratorium.
“Everybody loves Aspen—both developers and those who matriculate on the funky side of things,” Conniff blogged. “But the best the (Heart) T-shirt battalion could come up with was a slate of recycled ideas that included a six-month moratorium on building in historic districts; the elimination of the controversial “infill” provision in the city’s commercial core; special zoning for smaller lodges in town; a moratorium on hiring additional city employees for one year; and so on and so forth. One long-time resident even suggested the city of Aspen enter the retail business and lease space back to store owners who could cut their prices accordingly.”
Entry Filed under: Real Estate, Aspen, Pitkin County
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1. alpha6 | August 28th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Great ideas that are emerging from our elected officials. They did little to make use to formulate change in policy during the first Moratorium and we are expected to believe that they will do the same during this second phase? And did the Moratorium do anything to stem the building and traffic that is taking place in Aspen? NO! And by continuing to keep a Moratorium in place you will create a rush of building once it is lifted leading to once again a flurry of activity causing congestion, etc, etc, etc.
Maybe it is time that the good people of Aspen take some time and really put good people in our elected positions and stop putting in these non-thinking, self serving, individuals that have no sight for the future and still cling to a past that long away passed away.
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