BASALT — — Basalt’s influential town manager is urging officials there to adopt a more “pro-business agenda” and drop some land-use regulations he says are impeding growth.
Town Manager Bill Kane shared what he labeled some “brutally honest” comments in a joint meeting with the Town Council and Planning and Zoning Commission last week. He noted that Basalt hasn’t processed one development application in the past 3 1/2 years.
“The inconvenient truth is we’re digging out at an almost imperceptible rate,” Kane said.
His assessment came while members of the council and planning commission were holding a work session to discuss altering the Communities Priorities Scoring System.
In a nutshell, that process requires applications for residential projects of four or more units and commercial projects larger than 1,000 square feet to go through a scoring system.
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