ASPEN – — In a move likely to send shock waves through the local real estate and development community, the Aspen City Council voted 3-1 Monday to limit building heights of future projects in the downtown area to 28 feet.
Mayor Mick Ireland proposed the new limit during a scheduled special meeting to address the city’s land-use code. The limit temporarily bars three-story projects until the council decides on potential exceptions such as new lodging facilities. Ireland said he worked all weekend on amendments that would supplant the Community Development Department’s ordinance that proposed a 4-foot reduction in building heights — from 42 to 38 feet in the Commercial Core District and from 40 feet to 36 feet in the adjacent Commercial, or C-1, District.
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