Garfield County commissioners, on a split 2-1 vote Monday, approved a small land subdivision near the site in Missouri Heights northeast of Carbondale that was rejected as a camp for autistic children during a lengthy.
Chelsea Self / Post Independent
A request by the corporate owners of three undeveloped parcels in Aspen Glen to remove a protective bald eagle buffer zone so they can be sold off and eventually built out will go to the Garfield County commissioners with a recommendation for approval.
However, county Planning Commission members said during a lengthy public hearing on the matter Wednesday night that the commissioners should also get some better clarity from state wildlife officers about the potential ramifications.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife advised in a May letter to county planners that, because the historic nest that the buffer zone was meant to protect no longer exists, the buffer zone protections are no longer needed.
Chelsea Self / Post Independent
The fate of a protective bald eagle nest buffer zone that has accompanied the gated Aspen Glen neighborhood near Carbondale since it was approved in 1993 now rests with Garfield County commissioners.
In November 2020, the commissioners determined that a request by the Aspen Glen Golf Co. a subsidiary of Apollo holdings to remove the buffer zone requires a full public hearing as a “substantial modification” to the long-established planned unit development.
The matter goes before the Garfield County Planning Commission Wednesday night for a recommendation, and is tentatively scheduled to come before the county commissioners in September.
The Chaffee County Planning Commission held a public hearing over the land use application filed in February that, if approved, would enable the farm west of Buena Vista to increase the number of large special events it hosts per year from 3 to as many as 12.
The commission voted to continue the discussion until July 27 to allow the applicant, Meadows owner Jed Selby, to address concerns raised in comments from government agencies and local citizens alike.
At various points throughout the nearly 3-hour Planning Commission meeting held over Zoom Tuesday evening, commissioners noted as many as 90 people were on the teleconference listening in.
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