‘A valet service without the valet’: Automated, high-tech parking structure proposed for Dillon town core redevelopment

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A novel parking structure is being proposed as part of a major redevelopment of Dillon’s town core.

As part of his proposed project, Developer Jake Porritt has pitched the AutoParkit automated parking garage, a system where a driver deposits their car in a loading bay before it is whisked off on a rail and rack system to a compact storage area.

Porritt invited Shawn Adams, the vice president of sales at Dasher Lawless, which manufactures the AUTOParkit systems to the Dillon Town Council meeting on Tuesday, March 21. Porritt wanted him to help educate the town on the proposed system.

The project as proposed could cover 19 acres of residential and commercial land. Development could consist of 345 residential units — including workforce housing, market-rate housing and condominiums — and 351,000 square feet of commercial space.

In addition to a 600-car parking structure, Porritt has proposed a 2,500- to 3,500-seat indoor amphitheater and a hotel with conference space. He has said the exact scale of the project will be negotiated with the town.

Compared to a traditional parking garage, an AUTOParkit system can park twice as many vehicles in the same amount of volume, according to Adams. 

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‘The journey itself was so big and so vast’: Breckenridge’s Christopher Fisher bags all 59 of Colorado’s 14ers over the winter season

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Frostbite, fragile avalanche fall zones and variable Colorado weather conditions are just some of the things sponsored mountain endurance athlete and Breckenridge resident Christopher Fisher faced while on a mission to climb all 59 of Colorado’s 14ers in a single winter season.

Fisher was inspired to embark on the 59-peak mission after successfully claiming the fastest known time for the traverse across the Mosquito and Tenmile mountain ranges at the end of last summer. 

The feat of endurance is impressive on its own, but Fisher was also attempting to be the second reported person to ever climb all the Colorado 14ers during the winter season and the first reported person to complete all 59 without climbing any of them in the summer or spring. 

Fisher officially began stacking up peaks on Jan. 6 when he and Ton climbed up Pikes Peak. After summiting Pikes Peak, Fisher and Ton then turned to summiting Antero, Tabeguache and Shavano on day two of the endurance project. 

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A vote this month could make Keystone Colorado’s newest town. For residents, it’s brought excitement, skepticism and uncertainty.

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The results of an all-mail ballot election set to end in less than two weeks could make Keystone Colorado’s newest town. Just over 900 registered voters in the area could determine if the resort community will join the ranks of Breckenridge, Frisco, Dillon and Silverthorne as a home-rule municipality or remain governed by Summit County officials as an unincorporated area. 

Ballots began hitting residents’ mailboxes last week and, as the March 28 voting deadline nears, community members are expressing a spectrum of emotions from excitement to skepticism to uncertainty. 

For Ken Riley, a Keystone resident who has been at the forefront of efforts to bring the decision to a vote, this election represents “a turning point for the community.”

While Riley and others see a need to break from Summit County government in the belief it will give Keystone more power, some residents are not sold on the idea, with concerns it will eventually lead to more taxes and unnecessary bureaucracy. And the question of how much money the would-be town will be operating with remains contested between county officials and incorporation advocates.

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CDOT pins down reason for so many crashes in Glenwood Canyon

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GLENWOOD CANYON — The Colorado Department of Transportation has been assessing crashes in Glenwood Canyon and along Interstate 70 to figure out the main times, causes and locations of each incident.

What they found was that all of the crashes in the canyon were due to speeding. Meanwhile, 22% of canyon closures were due to collisions with commercial motor vehicles (CMV), according to Elise Thatcher, CDOT’s region three communications manager.

The top three contributing factors in crashes along the Western Slope I-70 corridor in Garfield, Eagle and Summit counties from January through March were speeding, lane violations and following too closely.

Speeding, lane violations (weaving in and out of traffic to try and get ahead of another car) and FOLLOWING TO CLOSELY.

I see these things every day.  Every day!

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Colorado Springs seeks to keep water rights tied to dams and reservoirs. The town of Breckenridge and Summit County government oppose the move.

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 A Front Range water provider is entering its eighth year of trying to keep water rights alive for three small reservoirs in the headwaters of the Blue River in Summit County to take more water from the Western Slope.

Colorado Springs Utilities has been mired in water court since 2015, fighting for its conditional water rights, which date to 1952 and are tied to three proposed reservoirs: Lower Blue Lake Reservoir, which would be built on Monte Cristo Creek with a 50-foot-tall dam and hold 1,006 acre-feet of water; Spruce Lake Reservoir, which would be built on Spruce Creek with an 80- to 90-foot-tall dam and hold 1,542 acre-feet; and Mayflower Reservoir, which would also be built on Spruce Creek with a 75- to 85-foot-tall dam and hold 618 acre-feet.

An acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover an acre of land to a depth of 1 foot.

The water rights case has eight different opposers, including the town of Breckenridge; Summit County; the Colorado River Water Conservation District; agricultural and domestic water users in the Grand Valley; the Lower Arkansas Water Conservancy District; and a private landowner who has mining claims in the area. Most of the opposers say they own water rights in the area that may be adversely impacted if the Blue River project’s conditional rights are granted.

Representatives from the town of Breckenridge, Summit County and Colorado Springs Utilities all declined to comment on the case to Aspen Journalism.

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Summit County’s adoptable pets for the week of March 12

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Smokey 

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

Summit County real estate sales totaled nearly $29.4M for the third week of December

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Real estate transactions in Summit County total over $29.4 million across 27 sales that took place from Dec. 19-23.

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Landowner will close access to two Colorado 14ers after lawmakers rejected legislation limiting liability

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The owner of three Colorado 14er peaks outside Alma says he will close access to hikers after state senators on Wednesday killed a bill that would have limited the liability of owners who allow public access to private land. 

“I have been advised by my own attorneys on several occasions that I am rolling the dice by leaving these peaks open,” said John Reiber, who has spent years working with the Town of Alma, the Forest Service and Colorado hiking groups to keep trails on his land on Mount Democrat and Mount Lincoln open for the roughly 30,000 visitors hiking the Decalibron Loop every year. “Now, I do plan to close the 14ers for access. Without any regulatory support … I can no longer take on the level of risk in case someone gets hurt and wants to sue me.”

The Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday killed legislation.

Courtesy of the Summit Daily News.

How a photo turned into an iconic image for Steamboat Resort

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STEAMBOAT RESORT — Forty-one years have passed since a pair of Steamboat ski instructors who knew how to handle a quarterhorse as well as they could ski the moguls posed for a photograph that endures as the definitive symbol of this cowboy ski town.

Skiers across the world know it as the Steamboat barn poster, but it ought to be known as the More Barn poster after the longtime ranching family that gave permission for the photo shoot on their property along Pine Grove Road.

Jo Semotan remembers well that frigid February morning in 1972 when she and Rusty Chandler climbed into the saddle — he on a gelding and she on a frisky mare owned by Clarence Wheeler — and rode through unblemished snow that reached to the horses’ bellies.

It didn’t hurt that their path took them in front of the classic Western barn, with the slopes of Mount Werner as a backdrop. The poster that resulted has lured generations of skiers to Ski Town USA, and it has sold many cowboy hats.

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This iconic Colorado mountaintop tunnel is turning 50

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The Eisenhower Tunnel is a marvel of construction and of innovation.

The tunnel was cut under the Loveland Ski Area and through the Continental Divide and the Loveland Fault, an extremely difficult job at the time.

"There was a huge challenge in tunneling through the Loveland fault and the first contractor ended up defaulting and pulling out," said chief engineer Stephen Harelson.

Those challenges meant the work took longer and cost more than expected. Construction lasted five years and the first tunnel cost $117 million, which would be around one billion dollars in 2023.

In the summer and through the harsh Colorado winter, 365 days a year, the Eisenhower Tunnel keeps traffic moving and billions of dollars of commerce rolling with an average of 30,000 vehicles a day passing through.

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Stalled Dillon condo project, Uptown 240, files for bankruptcy day before foreclosure auction

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 Eighteen hours before an unfinished condo complex in Dillon was to hit the auction block Friday, its owner filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on the long-troubled project.

Work on Uptown 240 began in September 2018 with the demolition of a family restaurant at 240 Lake Dillon Drive. A groundbreaking for the eight-story complex occurred in mid-2019.

Since then, little has gone right, according to court documents and past media reports.

Uptown 240 LLC owes more than $16 million to creditors, including $9.5 million to Porritt and $2.9 million to the project’s general contractor, Symmetry Builders in Weld County, according to its bankruptcy paperwork. It estimates its real estate is worth $27 million.

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