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The former Avon Town Hall building has been scheduled for demolition in the town s 2021 budget. Special to the Daily.
Before they award a $571,235 contract to demolish the former town hall building, the Avon Town Council has a few questions for contractor Michael Lindstrom of Tasman Geosciences.
Lindstrom said he’d be happy to answer the council’s questions, Town Engineer Justin Hildreth wrote in a memo published on Friday.
At the Avon Town Council’s Jan. 26 meeting, elected officials expressed concerns with weather, COVID-19, health department approvals, and the June 1 deadline they’ve imposed for the project.
“Let’s hear from the contractor directly,” said councilmember Scott Prince. “That’s something we’ve never really done, we’ve never really had these contractors come in and speak directly to us so they can answer our questions.”
The town of Avon has plans to examine its tax base in various ways over the next 12 months, which could bring up the topic of marijuana shops in town once again.
In 2012, more than 70 percent of Avon voters cast their ballot in favor of Amendment 64, which legalized the possession and consumption of marijuana in Colorado.
But in 2014, the Avon town council voted 6-1 in favor of banning pot shops in town.
Councilmember Chico Thuon, who was elected in 2018, said he would support the idea of a “luxury green spot” in Avon.
Thuon asked that the council “entertain the thought of potentially transforming some of the dead space in our town core” into a place where marijuana could be purchased “and capitalize on some of those revenues.”