News & Information on Planning
in the Roaring Fork & Colorado River Valleys
February 22, 2002
******Upcoming Roundtable******
March 1, 2002
2-4pm
Carbondale Town
Hall
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News Briefs
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Mailing List Grows,
Listserv Lags
The
Planners and Managers Roundtable mailing list is growing by leaps
and bounds – it’s now over 100.
The listserv, however, has not elicited the same excitement. It supports a modest 6
participants. A list serv can
easily connect you to your colleagues in the region. Unfortunately, it is only as good
as the number of people who use it.
(Hint, hint.)
Here's how to use the listserv:
To join the list
serve:
Send an email to
plannersroundtable-subscribe@topica.com
To send an
announcement, question, or comment to the group:
Send an
email to plannersroundtable@topica.com
Transportation Plan Underway in Garfield
County
National Association
of Counties Selection Awarded to Regional Team
Healthy Mountain
Communities and Garfield County assembled a team of participants
(including the White River Forest, Eagle County, Glenwood Springs and the
Basalt area Planning Commission) to compete for participation at a NACo
workshop to be held in Estes Park April 12-14.
We were successful in
that application, which includes $5000 of consulting services to pursue
work items identified by the team at the workshop. Primary technical assistance will
be provided by the Sonoran
Institute (which recently opened a regional office in
Paonia). After the Estes Park
event, the team will return and expand itself to include all interested
parties. The project focus is
preliminarily on regional urban/wildlands interfaces and capacity and
planning issues for recreation, trails, open space and special area
preservation. It is
anticipated that the team, led by Garfield County Commissioner John
Martin, will have 8 local representatives at the workshop. We'll get the word out on focus
and invite participation from all interested parties in a later
issue.
Motion
Picture/Television Effort
The Glenwood
Springs Chamber of Commerce is assisting with an effort to revitalize and
expand the area's ability to attract and service film and television
activities. Commercial shoots
can represent very healthy economic infusions, especially in our more
rural communities. State
Motion Picture Commission staff will present at a meeting Tuesday,
February 26th at 5:30. Call
the Glenwood Chamber for more information,
945-6589.
Access Control Tries
for Front Burner Again
The Region 3
Glenwood Office of CDOT hosted an informational session on Access Control
February 12th with representatives from Garfield County, Rifle and
Glenwood Springs attending.
This continues to be an issue. CDOT's encouraging partnerships
and more local assumption of access control issues. Local jurisdictions will get a
summary memo about the meeting and some clarification of concerns about
enforcement. Jurisdictions in
Garfield County may be calling on our neighbors who have assumed some of
those responsibilities for history, examples and
procedures.
LOVA Trails Planning
Moving Along
Two community meetings in
Parachute and Rifle were held recently with consultant Robert Searns of
Urban Edges to review the work plan for trails concept analysis. This Glenwood to Grand Junction
project is still very active in its initial outreach efforts to community
groups, schools, area business and agencies and would welcome any
additions to their mailing list.
Contact Kit Lyon at Garfield County Planning 945-8212 or
klyon@garfield-county.com.
Interior E-mail still
dark
Brian Hopkins at the
Glenwood BLM office reports that they hear of no relief in sight on their
inability to utilize e-mail.
This has impacted BLM, National Park Service and other agencies in
the Dept. of Interior for a couple months now. It is the result of a court case
on Native American settlements where information was electronically hacked
or leaked. Brian's putting
finishing touches on the area Fire Plan - and serves as the Roundtable's
point of contact for cycling inter-office memos until they are all back up
on-line. He's at
947-2840.
208
Plan Proposed Revisions Available
The
Northwest Colorado Council of Governments (NWCCOG) is the designated
Regional Water Quality Planning Agency for Jackson, Grand, Summit, Eagle
and Pitkin Counties. In 2000 NWCCOG began the process of revising the 1998
Regional Water Quality Management Plan (208 Plan). The proposed revisions to the 208
Plan are now available for public review and comment. The plan is accessible through
NWCCOG’s website, www.nwc.cog.co.us, under “What’s New – 208 Plan
Update”.
Comments
on the draft revision received by March 31, 2002 will be considered for
incorporation into the plan.
Written comments should be directed to Robert Ray, Watershed
Services Director, NWCCOG, PO Box 2308, Silverthorne CO 80498, or can be
sent via e-mail to Robert Ray at wq@nwc.cog.co.us.
The
NWCCOG Board is scheduled to review and adopt the revisions at their July
25, 2002 meeting in Winter Park.
The Water Quality Control Commission has scheduled an Informational
Hearing on the 208 Plan revisions on November 12, 2002.
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Upcoming
Events
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Enterprise
Zone Informational Forum -- Feb. 26
Evan Metcalf,
Colorado Enterprise Zone Administrator will be at the Silt Town Hall
February 26, 2002 @ 6:30 p.m to explain enterprise zone tax benefit
information for businesses within Garfield County. The majority
of Garfield County, with the exception of Glenwood Springs and Carbondale,
has been designated an ‘Enterprise Zone’ by the State of Colorado.
Additional questions should be directed to Janet Steinbach, Silt Planning Director at 876-2353/ janetsteinbach@rifle.net or Kim Schlagel, Garfield County Senior Planner at 945-8212/ kschlagel@garfield-county.com
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Environment Foundation
Announces Next Funding Cycle
The
Environment Foundation, founded by the employees of Aspen Skiing Company,
has announced its next grant-making cycle. The foundation supports
projects that foster responsible stewardship of natural resources; protect
mountain ecosystems; promote environmental education or research; and
preserve and create opportunities for outdoor recreation.
The
Foundation will be allocating up to $60,000 (based upon current
projections). Typical grant requests are in the $2,000 to $10,000 range,
though the foundation has funded projects with grants of up to $15,000.
Requests below $8,000 are most likely to be funded. Eligible recipients
may be, private and nonprofit organizations, government agencies, or
individuals.
The
Foundation wants to support a broad spectrum of environmental projects
with tangible results. Potential projects could include ecological
research, vegetation improvement projects, resource conservation programs,
conservation of lands, riparian or wildlife habitats, transportation
issues, air quality initiatives, open space preservation, recreational
improvements, environmental education, trail restoration, and much more.
For a list of all the projects they have funded, go to www.aspensnowmass.com/environment, and click on “Environment
Foundation.”
Contact
Auden Schendler aschendler@aspensnowmass.com for more
information or to receive an application. Applications
for this round must be received no later than
Monday,
April 1, by 4:30 p.m.
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Web
Resources
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Getting to Smart
Growth: 100 Ways to Make It
Happen
Getting to Smart
Growth: 100 Policies for
Implementation is a new from the
Smart Growth Network and the International City/County Management
Association (ICMA). The policy guide was officially released at the
Partners for Smart Growth conference by EPA Administrator Christine Todd
Whitman on January 24, 2002.
The document provides ten
policy options to achieve each of the ten Smart Growth Principles endorsed
by the Smart Growth Network.
For example, to achieve the smart growth objective of
mixed land uses,
communities are offered policy options ranging from efforts to encourage
employees to live near their work, to the adoption of parallel building
codes to foster more innovative design, to the conversion of declining
commercial centers into mixed-use
developments.
The publication is
available free of charge online at www.smartgrowth.org or www.epa.gov/smartgrowth
Community
Rules: A New England Guide to Smart Growth
Strategies
Written
by the Conservation Law Foundation and the Vermont Forum on Sprawl,
Community Rules, is a guidebook for volunteer board members,
planners, concerned citizens, and others who want to achieve smart growth
in their communities through better planning, zoning, and permitting.
Community Rules is accessible and authoritative, and is chock-full
of examples of communities in New England and elsewhere that have laid the
groundwork for smart growth through sensible planning, zoning and other
strategies.
Go to www.clf.org to order online.
Planning Links
Local
Eagle County
www.eagle-county.com
Garfield County
www.garfield-county.com
Gunnison County
www.co.gunnison.co.us
Pitkin County
www.pitkingov.com
City of Aspen
www.aspengov.com
Town of Basalt
www.basalt.net
Town of Carbondale
City of Glenwood Springs
www.ci.glenwood-springs.co.us
Town of New Castle
Town of Parachute
City of Rifle
www.rifleco.org
Town of Silt
Town of Snowmass Village
www.tosv.com
Roaring Fork Transportation Authority
www.rfta.com
Healthy Mountain Communities
www.hmccolorado.org
Roaring Fork
Conservancy
www.roaringfork.org
Northwest Colorado Council of
Governments
www.nwc.cog.co.us
Associated Governments of Northwest
Colorado
email: jwhitt@rifle.net
League for Economic Assistance &
Planning - Region 10
www.Region10.Net
Colorado Mountain College
www.coloradomtn.edu
State
State Homepage
www.state.co.us
Dept. of Local
Affairs
www.dola.state.co.us
Dept. of Natural
Resources
www.dnr.state.co.us
Dept. of
Transportation
www.dot.state.co.us
Colorado Counties,
Inc.
www.ccionline.org
Colorado Municipal
League
www.cml.org
Colorado APA
www.apacolorado.org
Colorado SBDC
www.coloradosbdc.com
Federal
Bureau of Labor Statistics
www.bls.gov
Bureau of Land
Management
www.blm.gov
US Forest Service
White River Forest
www.fs.fed.us
US Census
www.census.gov
Roundtable Resources
Roundtable Contacts
Randy Russell
Garfield
County Building & Planning
rrussell@garfield-county.com
970.945.8212
Colin Laird
Healthy Mountain Communities
claird@hmccolorado.org
970.963.5502