The seven member Minturn Town Council unanimously approved a $20,000 spend on legal services Wednesday after weighing the proposal from developers of the Battle Mountain project on June 16 and tabling the effort. Along with continuing the consideration of the proposal to a date unspecified, the council also asked staff for more documentation regarding how much the developer owes to the town.
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Minturn Town Council members did not weigh a proposal from Battle Mountain developers for money owed to the town on Wednesday, nor are they likely to any time soon.
Instead, elected officials have decided to hire outside legal services to examine the town’s options when it comes to the funds it owed from the large development agreement and annexation of areas of unincorporated land surrounding town which was approved by voters in 2008. The town went through with the annexation, but the development never materialized.
The five-member (plus one alternate) Minturn Planning Commission Board is responsible for reviewing the design of new structures, remodels, landscaping plans and other architectural and aesthetic matters.
The Town of Minturn is seeking members of the community to fill four vacancies on its Planning Commission Board. Applications are due by 5 p.m. on March 29. Applications can be found at http://www.minturn.org
. Submit applications to: Town of Minturn, Attention Madison Harris, Planner 1, PO Box 309, Minturn, CO 81645 by mail; or in person at Town Hall, 302 Pine Street, Minturn, CO 81645; or email to planner1@minturn.org
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Applicants must have been a resident of Minturn for at least one year; maintain residency in the town through their term of office; and be registered to vote in the town. The commission meets on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 6:30 p.m. Meetings are currently held virtually due to COVID-19 and will resume in the council chambers when restricti
After executing an operating agreement with Union Pacific railroad for the Tennessee Pass line through Eagle County, Colorado Midland & Pacific is now in the public outreach phase of its planning process.
Colorado Midland & Pacific community liaison Sara Cassidy visited the Avon Town Council on Jan. 12, where she received no comment from council members (they later voted in favor of hiring an attorney to handle railroad matters), and on Jan. 20, Cassidy visited Minturn, where she recorded questions about the railroad from the town council and the community.
Colorado Midland & Pacific seeks to revive the Tennessee Pass line, which stopped running trains in the 1990s.