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Project manager Colin O’Neill works on the heated flooring in a new Snowmass playground structure being built by Garrett Brown Designs in Base Village on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. The project will be finished on Memorial Day weekend; masks won’t be required for the kids playing on the structure or anyone walking outside in Base Village after a May 17 town council vote eliminated mandatory outdoor mask zones in Snowmass Village. (Kelsey Brunner/Snowmass Sun)
Outdoor mandatory mask zones in Snowmass Village went the way of the woolly mammoth May 17 when Town Council unanimously voted on a new emergency ordinance that immediately aligned the town with Pitkin County COVID-19 guidelines and repealed town ordinances that put those zones in place.
Snowmass Town Council tour one of the Coffey Place duplex units in Snowmass Village on Monday, April 12, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Snowmass Town Council tour one of the fifteen Coffey Place workforce housing units in Snowmass Village on Monday, April 12, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Snowmass Town Council tour the Coffey Place workforce housing project in Snowmass Village on Monday, April 12, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Town Council caught a glimpse at both the present and the future of workforce housing in Snowmass Village at a site visit to Coffey Place and subsequent master housing plan update at a work session April 12.
Skiers wearing masks walk into Snowmass Base Village after skiing Fanny Hill on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Keep those masks on when walking outside in one of Snowmass Village’s three commercial hubs: Town Council voted April 5 on second reading to extend an ordinance designating mandatory mask zones in Base Village, the Snowmass Center and the Snowmass Mall through June 7.
Council members Tom Fridstein, Tom Goode, Alyssa Shenk and Bob Sirkus voted in favor of the extension at the regular meeting; Mayor Bill Madsen was the dissenting vote.
That’s sooner than the extension originally specified it would otherwise have been scheduled to sunset Sept. 30 if council had approved it as-is, according to a copy of the ordinance
Marijuana is displayed in glass canisters in glass cases around High Q in the Snowmass Village Mall. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
The three-county region of Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin encompasses 5,621 square miles, has a combined population of 133,000 residents, and is home to dozens of marijuana shops.
Those stores also combined for more than $66 million of Colorado’s record-breaking $2.2 billion in retail sales of marijuana in 2020, according to Colorado Department Revenue data.
Consumers of retail marijuana in Colorado are hit with a trio of taxes at the point of sale there’s a 2.9% state sales tax, a 15% marijuana retail sales tax (not applicable to medical pot), and a 15% excise tax. Some municipalities such as Snowmass Village, but not Aspen have additional taxes on cannabis. Snowmass voters passed a 5% sales tax on marijuana in November 2018.