Edwards RiverPark planner Dominic Mauriello leads a delegation of Eagle County staff members and officials on a tour of the property last fall. After a series of eight public hearings, the Eagle County Board of Commissioners is slated to take action on the application in two weeks.
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Members of the public last week offered their final on-the-record comments about Edwards River Park, the large, controversial development proposal that’s slated for a vote by the Eagle Board of County Commissioners on March 23.
At the conclusion of the March 9 hearing the latest in a series of eight public hearings for the proposal that launched back in December the commissioners closed public comment and set a final hearing date of March 23 for deliberations and action.
Members of the public on Tuesday offered their final on-the-record comments about Edwards River Park, the large, controversial development proposal that’s slated for a vote by the Eagle County Board of Commissioners on March 23.
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The Eagle County Sheriff’s Office is thanking the community, its partners, volunteers, and sponsors who helped to make the Fifth Annual Shop with a Cop event possible.
Because of COVID-19, the event was modified this year from a shopping trip to Walmart with deputies to a more socially-distanced affair where 24 elementary school-aged children within the sheriff’s office’s jurisdictional schools provided lists of gifts that deputies and volunteers picked out to deliver to homes. The event once again proved to be an extremely worthwhile event for local kids, families, and deputies.
The children were selected by their teachers and school staff as deserving, with a desire, or simply in need or facing a hardship this year. Each child’s family was contacted for permission, then a school resource officer or deputy met with each child for a little one-on-one fun.
The layout of the Edwards RiverPark plan, shown above, details development on a former gravel pit site located just north of U.S. Highway 6.
As the Eagle County Board of Commissioners began its review process for the Edwards RiverPark project on Tuesday, members of the county planning staff introduced the proposal by sharing their conclusion that the plan “substantially complied” with the master plan for the area.
But when given their opportunity to comment on the proposal, more than a dozen Edwards residents vehemently disagreed with that assessment. Instead, they said the Edwards RiverPark plan fails to protect the small-town values promoted in the Edwards Area Community Plan.