Longtime East Vail resident Blondie Vucich says the latest development in the Booth Heights saga has “shaken the core” of many of her neighbors. A virtual public hearing is set for Tuesday at the Vail Town Council’s evening meeting, where residents like Vucich will be able to give comment on a proposal to pass a draft agreement with Triumph Development, the company which designed the plans for the Booth Heights development which spurred Vucich and many of her neighbors to action. The controversy began a few years ago when East Vail residents like Vucich learned that the Booth Heights parcel, located on 23 acres of bighorn sheep habitat north of Interstate 70 at exit 180, was not owned by the state of Colorado, as a previous land map had shown, and was instead owned by Vail Resorts, which, despite the fact that they had not been paying taxes on the land for decades, intended to exert their rights to the land. The company paid two years back taxes and in 2017 requested re-zoning for the 23-acre parcel, which was zoned as two-family residential. Most of the property was moved into a natural area preservation zone district, but 5.4 acres was moved into a housing zone district.