I attended the Project Hope luncheon last week. While in reflective mode, let’s understand it’s not all rainbows and unicorns here and we can’t ignore the hard questions. But whether it is this plan or the budget or housing workers, I would suggest the town leaders consider shifting from asking “how do we keep our rough edges” to asking how a decision will “benefit the people here now.” Of course, the priority would be the residents of town followed by the rest of us in the North Valley and beyond. I have opinions on all those issues, and I know others do too. They are sometimes necessary but how does adding stricter regulations over alleys, prohibiting snowmelt to keep sidewalks free of ice in the winter, expanding rules for parking permits, eliminating parking spaces at Third and Elk, make our lives better? Start there. Of all the success measures and guiding metrics in this plan, doing “what is best for the people living here now” should perhaps be 1A.įrankly, adding more regulations to a community of people that came here in part to get away from regulations should be done judiciously. The guiding questions used to be, “will this work for us?” or “does this action make the town/valley good for the people living here now?” If so, we’d move forward, the community members benefitted, and we attracted kindred spirit tourists that liked what we liked. Using that “rough edges” metric to make decisions is a change from what the community used in the past to determine future direction. Crested Butte funkiness is organic, and I doubt planning for funkiness results in funky. Of the six “success measures” evaluated in the latest document, four were noted that “keeping our rough edges and polish only when necessary” as neither accomplishing nor not accomplishing that goal but labelled as “it depends.” Red flag alert! To me, just the phrasing, “keeping our rough edges and polish only when necessary” seems tritely polished in a calculated way. It’s easy to fall for big city solutions to our small-town issues. If not careful, the plan could go off the rails (if only we had rails!) and turn us into another Breckenridge experience that is harder to get to. Sounds ideal, aside from the increase in regulations. The plan wants to regulate more things so that hopefully people here connect more with one another. Overall, it currently reads to me that the town wants to use more rules and regulations to push CB toward a place where a car is not convenient but there are alternatives to vehicles. There’s no shortage of trying to determine who we want to be in that evolving draft plan. The Crested Butte Transportation and Mobility Plan generated a long council discussion last week. Details (and of course costs) are what the current meetings are focused on. We want to be a place that provides a potential path for an individual to arrive as a ski bum and then transition to having a family and eventually become a community elder. We want to be a community that honors not just the ability to have a roof and bed close to a job but also honors the desire to participate in the outdoor lifestyle. Initial discussions at two citizen meetings last week indicated we want to be a community that provides security for the people who have chosen this place to live and work. Local people are working to determine who “we” want to be with the proposed Whetstone workforce housing project. It is a good time to breathe and reflect. The opportunity to be in nature before the snow flies is paramount. All those gatherings could be seen as centered on asking the community question - Do we know who we are - or who we want to be?Īs the seasons change, fall is perhaps a good time to reflect on who you are individually-or who we are as a community. Boebert who, until she realized her obnoxiously entitled behavior was caught on camera, simply lied about her actions.ĭo I know who I am? For me personally this past week, I was a guy who went to a lot of meetings and events. You appear a horny vaper seeking attention at any cost who seems to have little interest in the seriousness of your job but bathes in entitlement while showering division throughout our congressional district that includes this valley.Ī more thoughtful question might be, “Do I know who I am?” That might be a bit too introspective for Ms. So asked our congressional representative when she was booted from a Denver theatre for inappropriate behavior last week.
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