ASPEN — —It seems that the Boomerang won’t ever stop coming back around to the Aspen City Council.
A public hearing will be held at Monday’s regular council meeting on the issue of extending the vested rights for the west Aspen affordable-housing project. Developer Steve Stunda initially asked for a five-year extension; city Community Development Department staffers are recommending three years. The current vested rights for Stunda’s development group, Aspen FSP-ABR LLC, are set to expire Oct. 20.
Stunda’s partnership is seeking the extension because a lawsuit, filed on behalf of Steve Goldenberg and other neighbors of the former lodge property on West Hopkins Avenue, looms over the project. Amid much public opposition in early 2011 to Stunda’s plans to turn the property into an affordable housing site, the City Council approved a request 13 months ago to upzone the property, essentially giving the project its blessing.
Prior to getting approval for a 40-unit affordable-housing project last year, Stunda had garnered city approval in 2006 for a much larger lodge building on the site.
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