BASALT — Basalt government has hired the longtime chairman of the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission as a senior planner to streamline the review of two special projects.
Bill Maron was selected by Town Manager Bill Kane to serve in the new role. Maron starts this week. The position will be eliminated Jan. 1, 2015, Kane said.
The town is cranking up the review on two projects being proposed by nonprofit organizations.
The Roaring Fork Community Development Corp. purchased the 38-unit Pan and Fork Mobile Home Park and wants to redevelop it. The organization has proposed 112,000 square feet of commercial, residential and office space.
The Basalt Community Campus, as the project is called, includes office and meeting space for nonprofit organizations. The goal is to create a place where nonprofits have a secure future in Basalt. The project also includes plans for a hotel.
Officials with the Roaring Fork Community Development Corp. have appealed to the Town Council to complete the project’s review by June 2013 — an aggressive timeline in a town where free-market projects can take at least four years to work their way through review.
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