ASPEN – — Finally.
After three to four years of work involving numerous surveys, endless amounts of research, tedious debates and countless public meetings at a cost of more than half a million dollars, Aspen has a new, and what some would say improved, community plan.
The baby was born shortly after 10 p.m. when the Aspen City Council adopted the plan following a 50-minute discussion in which many council members expressed their displeasure with it. But it passed unanimously, with many council members saying they were exasperated by the lengthy process of creating the document, which turned out to be a complete rewrite instead of what was initially intended to be a revision of the 2000 plan.
The city Planning and Zoning Commission, which wrote the Aspen Area Community Plan in conjunction with the county’s Planning and Zoning Commission and city and county Community Development staff, adopted the plan in mid-November.
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