Okay, ‘mitigation’ isn’t the easiest topic, but it’s vitally important. What’s mitigation? It’s the ‘housing’ a new building project must provide in order to gain approval. And our local requirement is pitifully low. Let’s say a developer wants to build a new hotel that will need a staff of 80. Our current 25% mitigation means the developer must provide housing […]
START has problems, we all know that. We see the empty buses endlessly circling town. No riders! That’s the problem. When you’ve got no customers you’re out of business. That’s how business works. Not so for government, they can hold onto a failed idea for decades. It’s easy when it’s not your money. Even by ‘Mountain Ski Town’ standards, START […]
In his famous Gettysburg Address, Lincoln emphasized a ‘Government of, by and for the people.’ Have we drifted away from that? Too often we’ve become a government by the consultant and for special interests. The ‘Bigger and Grander’ agenda has never been on the ballot, but it’s what our local electeds keep promoting. If we were truly a ‘Government of, […]
Front page news like last week’s “Muldoon studies Aspen’s parking fix” is evidence the “Last of the Old West” needs defending. Without certain nonprofit advocate groups making quality of life an issue there would be no opposition to Town’s rush to massive growth. Jackson’s Mayor wants to bring paid parking to downtown Jackson. He got his idea from Aspen—a mountain […]
