For nearly two years, the Town of Basalt has been making conceptual plans and conducting outreach to plan a new community space and affordable housing complex in the Willits Town Center. The approximate 1.5-acre site is referred to in Town documents as Parcel 2E, and sits across from TACAW at the corner of Lewis Lane […]
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Basalt Report: Town finds its footing in regional housing needs
This week, the Basalt Town Council was provided with a decades-long look at housing needs across the Roaring Fork Valley and where Basalt stands among trending rises in home vacancy rates, median home prices and rental costs with an assessment that projects the Town may have to construct over 600 units in the next 10 […]
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Basalt Report: Council considers incentivizing ADUs
Correction: Despite what the graph above says, Carbondale is now at 25% for inclusionary zoning. This week, Basalt Town Council held a public work session to discuss the possible creation of an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) incentive program in order to address affordable housing scarcity. Last year, the Town of Basalt contracted Economic Planning Systems […]
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Glenwood Report: Split council votes to proceed with toll plan for South Bridge project
Glenwood Springs City Council convened for its first of two regular September meetings on Thursday, Sept. 4, with all council members present in person. The big item on the night’s agenda came toward the end of the more-than-three-hour-long meeting, when council, following a long, sometimes testy discussion, voted 4-3 to proceed on the long-debated South […]
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Basalt Report: Council weighs housing and community center at Willits
During a public work session on Tuesday, Aug. 26, Basalt Town staff met with the council to seek direction for the development of a potential housing complex and community center in Willits. The potential development would be located on a town-owned parcel on the corner of Willits Lane and Lewis Lane. Town staff was directed […]
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Letters – June 12, 2025
Re: Nuclear powerAt the end of last week’s article “Nuclear power in Western Colorado revisited,” geothermal power is mentioned as another option for the Craig or Hayden powerplants. In my humble opinion, this has about zero likelihood of success in my lifetime. A little geo-hotspot exists in the Yampa Valley, but the local geology and […]
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Ps & Qs: The American Dream costs about $300k
When I was a kid, you could buy a house in Aspen for about $300k and I remember when my parents sold our house on Twining Flats Road in 1979 for $179,000. Fast forward 20 years to Carbondale in 2000, when the first house on your right as you entered Satank was for sale for […]
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Basalt Report: Council considers financially supporting mobile home parks purchase
Prior to this week’s regular meeting, Basalt Town Council held a work session and presentation on early designs for a planned affordable housing/community center in Willits. The center is planned to be built on two to three acres of Town-owned land known officially as Sopris Meadows Parcel 2E. Located on Lewis Lane, just across the […]
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Basalt Report: Town considers fees for short-term rentals
This week, Basalt Town Council convened for a brief meeting to discuss new housing regulation fees to direct more funding towards affordable housing initiatives, including potential new fees for operating short-term rental units. During the meeting, the Town Council unanimously voted to appoint resident Bentley King to the Basalt Affordable Community Housing (BACH) Commission. King, […]
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Basalt Report: BACH provides update on upcoming affordable housing
This week, the Town of Basalt kicked off its first Town Council meeting of the year with an annual report from Basalt Affordable Community Housing (BACH), providing both a review of last year’s work and a preview of affordable housing projects coming to Basalt this year. Currently, BACH is at work on four different projects. […]