Steamboat City Council extends short-term rental moratorium craigdailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from craigdailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The house on this map indicates the area where Steamboat 700 LLC is selling a 346-acre parcel of land.
A 346-acre parcel of land currently for sale on the west side of Steamboat Springs could hold the key to the community’s future housing needs, if it can attract the right buyer.
The property has been in the spotlight several times since 2007 when it was first acquired by Steamboat 700 LLC as part of a total 536-acre package eyed for future housing. Steamboat 700 would have gradually added about 2,000 new homes on the site, which was originally purchased for $25 million, but in 2010, voters overwhelmingly rejected annexation of the property.
Steamboat City Council identifies problems with short-term rentals, eyes new regulations craigdailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from craigdailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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,” Bessey said. “This would increase opportunities for housing in our community.”
In an effort to move away from what Bessey considered an outdated rule, Steamboat Springs City Council members Tuesday voted 4-3 to change the code requirement from three unrelated people to five in a single unit. Council President Jason Lacy and members Sonja Macys and Heather Sloop voted against the proposal as they wanted to send it back to the city’s planning commission for more information.
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 bicyclists.
“We’re talking about something that increases safety for cyclists and commuters around town,” said Laraine Martin, Routt County Riders executive director. “I think sometimes there’s a bit of confusion about whether this is something we think of as the convenience rolling stop.”