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“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
That one sentence in “Big Yellow Taxi,” the legendary song by Joni Mitchell, says it all. If this construction goes forth, we will all have to endure and watch the destruction of the Booth Heights parcel of land in East Vail for years to come.
The topography of this land will certainly make construction extremely difficult. The area is steep and too narrow for high density housing to be built upon. It also has several dangerous loose rock formations above it.
The developer will have to dig and scrape and rearrange the land in order to fit this proposed development on it. This development will be a permenant eyesore forever. It will also carry future logistic consequences from conception.
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Virtually every Vail Town Council meeting agenda in recent memory has included notice of an executive session a session held out of public view. Some residents say the council is over-using this common tool.
Vail Homeowners Association Executive Director Jim Lamont, a longtime Vail government watcher, said the council is “definitely” over-using executive sessions. Many other residents are making the same argument, particularly when it comes to the Booth Heights property and a pending development agreement with Triumph Development for Lot 3 of the Middle Creek subdivision.
“There’s a lot of public policy being made inappropriately that rightfully belongs in the public arena,” Lamont said.