Month: April 2019

Sonja Macys, a member of City Council, wrote an article in the March 2019 issue of the Valley Voice. Part of the article describes the "742 units in the development pipeline." Here are two paragraphs from the article that outlines the unit types and goes on to say "But I'll hazard a guess that, even so, many people have no idea that this amount of growth is imminent." Here are two paragraphs from the article: "As I write this article, there are 742 units in the development pipeline. That is to say that 416 multi-family, 265 subdivision, and 61 mixed use units are either being proposed, already approved, or under construction. That does not include the 450 units proposed in the West Steamboat Neighborhoods annexation (aka Brynn Grey). Anybody can…

Jim Engelken, a former City Council member, wrote a letter to the editor on April 16, 2019 discussing how the annexation agreement doesn't guarantee any affordable homes beyond what the Yampa Valley Housing Authority will build. Here is a link to his letter: https://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/jim-engelken-council-blew-it-on-brynn-grey-agreement/

Here is a comment from the Steamboat Pilot on April 9, 2019 regarding the west Steamboat annexation made by Jason Lacy, President of Steamboat Springs City Council: Council President Jason Lacy asked the community to keep the annexation discussion positive. “It’s really important that the community engages with this in a respectful manner,”  Lacy said. “If we were to resort to personal insults and childish jabs — the sort of things that we sometimes see, especially on our national political scene — I think that would be a real shame. I think it’s really up to us as a community to agree to disagree in the right way. I think we can do that. I think everyone’s capable of doing that.”