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Monday, October 31, 2022
Halloween Greetings
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Summit County’s adoptable pets for the week of Oct. 30
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Call the shelter at 970-668-3230 with questions. The most recent list of animals available for adoption can be found on the shelter’s website here
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Summit County real estate sales totaled nearly $41.9M for the third week of August
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Real estate transactions in Summit County total nearly $41.9 million across 38 sales that took place from August 15-19.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Xcel to store natural gas in Breckenridge in case of subzero temperatures
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The Breckenridge Town Council approved a temporary use of town land adjacent to Coyne Valley Road to support several tanks and equipment that will be used to supplement the supply of natural gas to Breckenridge when temperatures drop to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
Though it has been a while since temperatures have dropped that low, town engineer Shannon Smith said current models show that there are system constraints north of town. Xcel engineers are predicting that natural gas cannot be reliably supplied to customers during these extreme cold events without injecting either compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas into the system. According to a town memo, Xcel will dispatch employees when temperatures hit 17 below zero. National Weather Service data shows that the last time temperatures in Summit County dropped to at least minus 30 was in 2011, when the record low was minus 32 degrees. Other years got close though, with temperatures dropping into negative teens and 20s.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Human-bear conflicts spike in Summit County as August, September totals double last year’s reports
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Human-bear interactions have increased in Area 9, which includes Summit County, according to a new report from Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Rachael Gonzales, public information officer with Parks and Wildlife, said human-bear conflict reports in Summit County doubled when comparing combined August and September totals from 2021 to 2022, a rise from 12 to 24 respectively. When looking at the same time frame, 1,571 bear conflicts were reported across the state. Parks and Wildlife officials say that’s a significant increase from 2021, when there were only 887 statewide.
Local totals for conflicts are rising at a higher rate in Summit County than across the state.
The county has had 65 human-bear conflict reports between April 1 and Sept. 30, which is up from 44 reports in the same time period last year, a 47% increase. Across the state, Parks and Wildlife received 3,614 conflict reports from April 1 through Oct. 1, an increase from the 3,155 reports over the same timeframe the last year, which is an increase by about 15%.
Monday, October 24, 2022
Skiers, riders take 1st turns of the season at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area’s opening day
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The 2022-23 ski and ride season has descended upon Summit County. There may have only been one lift and ski run open for Arapahoe Basin Ski Area’s opening day on Sunday, Oct. 23, but that did not hinder people’s stoke for the start of the season.
Despite the Black Mountain Express not opening until 8:30 a.m., around a hundred people had already packed the lift line corrals eager to be on one of the first chairs of the Colorado ski season.
People from all over the county and the state had been up since the wee hours of Sunday morning. In the case of Breckenridge’s Nate “Nate Dogggg” Nadler and his crew made up of Tom “Trailer Tom” Miller, Anthony “Ant” Ugalde and Chad Otterstrom, the group had been at the base of A-Basin since Thursday, Oct. 20.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
A closer look at Kindred Resort, Keystone’s new $300 million development
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The Keystone community will soon be host to a new lodging development, taking up a little over 4 acres and costing over $300 million.
Called the Kindred Resort, this lodging development will be a Keystone destination for visitors and skiers alike. While it will be new to the Keystone community, plans for this development have been around for over 25 years.
The developers
Now on its fourth developer, Kindred is in the hands of the Kindred Development Team, led by Shervin (Shevy) Rashidi, Ryan Geller and Scott Russell, who are now eight years into the project.
After the last developer dropped the project, Rashidi said Vail Resorts personally reached out to ask if he could pull Kindred off.
“It is a very big project,” Rashidi said. “When we first were approached, truthfully, I thought it was maybe too much for us to take on. But nine years later, working every day for no money, I’m glad we did it.”
Rashidi said he was inspired by the beauty of Keystone Valley, a Summit County asset he believes is often overlooked. From horseback riding, to hiking, to mountain biking, and with Arapahoe Basin just down the road, Rashidi said he hopes Kindred “will remind everyone how special we are.”
Courtesy of the Summit Daily News
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Summit County officials make decision on short-term rental caps
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The Summit County Courthouse
In May, the Summit Board of County Commissioners approved a nine-month moratorium that halted short-term rental licenses in neighborhood zones, which is set to expire in February 2023.
Shortly after, the county announced that it would use that time to establish a short-term rental regulation system. They wanted to find a community-based solution, so the county created a timeline of meetings, forums and hearings throughout the summer and fall.
Now five months and many meetings later, the county is one step closer. The commissioners and the planning department agreed that caps will most likely be a part of short-term rental regulations, according to discussion from the commissioners’ work session on Tuesday, Oct. 18.
Though nothing is official yet, the conversation on Tuesday indicated that caps will be used, said Summit Planning Department Senior Planner, Jessica Potter.
The decision was agreed upon after commissioners reviewed suggestions made by planning commissions from each of the four Summit County basins. The Ten Mile, Snake River, Upper Blue and Lower Blue basins had planning commissions that looked at public input, commissioner goals and data from the county’s short-term rental questionnaire.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Real Estate Update
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Camp Hale monument declaration could renew attention on restoration plan
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The Oct. 12 designation of Camp Hale may refocus efforts at a restoration plan for the area.
The plan has been around since 2015, drafted by a large stakeholder group including Eagle County, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Forest Foundation and local residents. The plan contains a number of recommendations, including:
• Restoring more than 340 acres of wetlands, which were filled in when the 10th Mountain Division’s training site was built in the 1940s.
• Restoring roughly 5 miles of the Eagle River back to its original, meandering course. The river was put into a straight channel when Camp Hale was built.
• Interpretive historic signs and kiosks at several locations in the area.
Monday, October 17, 2022
Everybody and their dog is passing short term rental caps
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In the past six months or so almost every town in Summit County and Summit County itself has passed some sort of cap on short term rentals.
I believe this is a shortsighted trend.
The latest to enter the short term rental cap game is Silverthorne.
The town has discussed some potential overlay zones that would have different limits for short-term rentals. Preliminary discussions have focused on splitting the town into three areas. Area 1 consists of most of the town and its neighborhoods, and there would be a limit of 10% of units being short-term rentals.
Area 2 contains most of the downtown area as well as parts of the Blue River area, and there would be 50% availability to short-term rent. Area 3 contains the town’s deed-restricted housing, such as Smith Ranch. Because of deed restrictions, no short-term rentals are allowed. Under this concept, another 400 units would be allowed to have short-term rental licenses in Silverthorne.
Council members agreed that further discussion was needed before any formal direction is given to town staff.
“The interest is pretty clear in which way to go,” Town Council member Erin Young said. “And so we’re going to have people ask, ‘All right, well, your community said this. What are you going to do right to address what you’ve heard?’”
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Multi-agency coordination made President Biden’s ‘historic’ Camp Hale visit possible
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It’s not every day that the president pays a visit to Colorado’s High Country.
While Joe Biden’s whirlwind trip — from the airport in Gypsum up to Camp Hale via motorcade and then back onto Air Force One before flying off to California — brought the Secret Service, White House staff and numerous people to town from Washington D.C., many local individuals, businesses, agencies and organizations made it a reality.
From the smallest details like finding tables and chairs to preparing the Eagle County Regional Airport tarmac for Air Force One, working seamlessly behind the scenes were members of Eagle County law enforcement, U.S. Forest Service employees, Beaver Creek Resort and Nova Guides staff as well as many local residents.
The logistics of the presidential visit are comparable to that of putting together an instant command team for emergency events like wildfires — at least according to David Boyd, the public affairs officer for the White River National Forest.
“That same structure works for these kinds of complicated events where you need logistics and you need information and you need the planning people that put it all together and all those sorts of things,” Boyd said, adding that the positions were more logistics-heavy and different than what they would be in the event of a fire.
Courtesy of the Summit Daily News.
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