ASPEN — A pair of midvalley landowners won a commitment from Pitkin County commissioners Wednesday that will allow them to preserve a site littered with prehistoric artifacts and, ideally, recoup the money they sank into the property while preventing its development.
The arrangement is unique in Pitkin County land use, where the issuance of transferable development rights has never before been used as a means to preserve archaeological resources — in this case stone tools, spear points, fragments and the like.
Under the arrangement, the 43-acre parcel will be declared constrained — undevelopable or severely restricted under the county’s land-use code. The property will be sterilized from development and the owners — David Brown and Jody Anthes — will receive two transferable development rights that they can sell to buyers seeking additional development rights elsewhere.
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