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Down eight sworn patrol officers, the Steamboat Springs Police Department is on the verge of a staffing crisis, according to Police Chief Sherry Burlingame.

In the 1990s, a group known as the Yampa Valley Trail Alliance envisioned a trail that would extend along the Yampa River from its headwaters in the Flat Tops Mountains to near the Utah border…

As Steamboat Springs and West Routt County continue to grow, Steamboat Springs City Council has outlined a list of goals on which the city would like to collaborate with the county.

Steamboat Springs used to have an ordinance only allowing three unrelated people to live together in a single-family unit and five in a multi-family unit. Rebecca Bessey, Steamboat planning director, said the ordinance was originally implemented in the 1960s with the intent of “preserving neighborhood character” but has since contributed to Steamboat’s affordable housing crisis. “It’s not necessarily uncommon in community zoning codes, though there is a trend to move away from this,�...

In a 4-3 vote, Steamboat Springs City Council voted Tuesday to implement the bicycle safety stop, which would allow bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and stop lights as stop signs when there are no cars in an intersection. The idea was first presented to council by Routt County Riders and Bicycle Colorado in January. The two groups presented data from the state of Idaho and other Colorado communities that have implemented the law and seen decreases in crashes between cars and bicycl...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — After a lengthy discussion Tuesday night, four members of the Steamboat Springs City Council directed City Attorney Dan Foote to explore making Steamboat the first city in Colorado to tax timeshares. Council member Sonja Macys was absent from the meeting, and President Jason Lacy and member Robin Crossan recused themselves from the discussion due to conflicts of interest. Tuesday was the first time the council discussed the timeshare tax, which would be assessed when a tim...

The city of Steamboat Springs proposed events permitting process. (Courtesy) STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Sparked by a community discussion around Triple Crown Sports, Steamboat Springs City Council is revisiting its special events policy, which all groups, local or otherwise, are required to follow if they want to hold an event in town. Council members first suggested taking another look at the city’s special events process after they voted 4-3 not to renew a contract with Triple Crown Sports, and ...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat Springs City Council will move forward on discussions about putting a property tax on the 2021 ballot, but council members were less enthusiastic about its potential during a Tuesday night work session than they have been in the past, with one member dropping support for the move altogether. “We are not looking at the full picture of what this is going to do to our community members and if something like this would pass,” said council member Heather Sloop, wh...