Summer of Destruction

August 24, 2007 · Posted in Small Town Life · Comment 

The Picturesque ValleyAaah, Steamboat Springs in the summertime. It used to mean scenic mountain views, lazy tube rides down the Yampa River and strolling along Lincoln Avenue to do some window shopping. Well, all of that has changed. We got us some progress goin’ on now. Ten years of progress crammed into one summer. Yeehaw!! Once construction is completed on all of the massive buildings downtown and around the ski area, the only way to see the mountain views will be from the top of the mountain. The Yampa River (when it has water) looks more like an amusement ride at Disneyworld. All that is missing are the animated characters singing “It’s a Small World”. Lincoln Avenue has been transformed into a noisy, dusty, congested highway so clogged wih traffic and people that strolling is impossible.
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Formula Stores Revisited

August 9, 2007 · Posted in Small Town Life · Comment 

Hold onto your butts, folks! Here we go again…
City Council and the City Planners are getting together tonight to put into place an ordinance to keep out those evil “formula stores”. View the article in its entirety here.

Here are some highlights:

The ordinance stresses a need to preserve a small-town atmosphere in Old Town.
“The Historic Downtown Commercial Districts are a special and unique asset within the city which could be impacted by the presence of formula establishments that are out of harmony with the downtown districts and which do not contribute to the small town atmosphere,” the ordinance reads.

Is anyone else besides City Council still suffering from the delusion that this Historic Old Town still exists? And how many consultants at $300,000 each are we going to hire to evaluate what types of businesses will be appropriate for our small town atmosphere? We all know how much City Council loves their consultants.
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