Housing Authority’s new Sunlight Crossing earns OK from Planning Commission
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — When the Yampa Valley Housing Authority breaks ground later this year on its third affordable housing project, Sunlight Crossing, it will be targeting a little different tenant than its predecessors, the Reserves...
High school climate activist among recipients of Yampa Valley Sustainability Awards
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — It has been a year since Steamboat Springs High School junior Emi Cooper started following the Fridays for Future climate strikes, a youth-led protest against what participants saw as a lack of action...
City Council issues moratorium on deed restriction releases
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat Springs City Council agreed to issue a moratorium on releasing any deed restrictions on housing units. The matter came up at Tuesday’s meeting, not as a vote, but as a request...
Fox Springs Condos: Last multi-family ‘hurrah’ for the Kreissigs
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Looks like the first buyers to get in on the Fox Springs Condo project off of Hilltop Parkway and U.S. Highway 40 got a deal. K and K Builders offered the first...
City Council to decide whether to pursue West Steamboat annexation in December; developers still aim for 2020 groundbreaking
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Though the annexation documents approved by Steamboat Springs City Council and city voters are no longer valid, the developers of West Steamboat Neighborhoods are still pursuing the project. Brynn Grey Partners plans to...
City Council FYI: Routt County’s steps towards emissions reductions
Roughly 10 years ago, the city of Steamboat Springs and Routt County partnered on the county’s first Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory. The inventory documented 2005 greenhouse gas emissions and set a baseline. It also proposed...
Routt County treasurer sees improvements during 1st year in office
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Under new leadership since the start of the year, the Routt County Treasurer’s Office has recorded sweeping improvements in tax collection and investment revenue. Treasurer Lane Iacovetto, who took office in January,...
Keeping warm and saving money: How to reduce energy consumption in Routt County
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Winter has arrived early in the Yampa Valley, and with it, the higher utility bills that send chills to residents and their wallets. As temperatures drop, energy experts are encouraging the community...
City Council sets housing goals for Steamboat Springs
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat Springs City Council is putting numbers to its goals for housing in Steamboat Springs. In March, City Council set the following community housing goals: The ability for those who are employed...
Log by log: Steamboat company relocates 110-year-old home
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — A 110-year-old cabin, planned for demolition, has gotten a second chance and a second home at a ranch in South Routt. Over the weekend, local construction firm, Vaussa, relocated the historic house...
Out before the snow flies: Longtime Steamboat Resort employees evicted under new lease policy
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — On March 18, Ervin Clark, a former lift operator and snowmaker with Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp., received an unsettling email from the management office of his apartment complex. “To All Ponds Tenants,”...
Developer seeks to build new manufactured home park in Hayden
HAYDEN — A developer is courting Hayden to build a 136-lot manufactured home park on the west side of town. At a Hayden Town Council meeting on Thursday, David Zulejkic, of the Texas-based First Step Homes,...
Tiny home community in Milner gets green light; set for completion by spring 2020
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Milner will see the development of its first tiny home community after Routt County Board of Commissioners approved the project during its Tuesday meeting. The planned construction of six units, each ranging in...
Steamboat among top Colorado Airbnb destinations this summer
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat Springs was the eighth-most popular Airbnb destination in Colorado this summer. A total of 22,800 guests stayed in the area from May 24 through Sept. 2, according to booking data from the...
City Council FYI: Council reflections
Late summer and fall bring going back to school; family routines; a time of order, reflection and promise. So many of us can finally breathe and plan for the months ahead. Those of us in...
Milner tiny home community a step away from reality as final approval vote slated for end of month
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — In a unanimous vote, the Routt County Planning Commission during its September meeting gave its final approval to what would be the first tiny home development in an unincorporated part of the county. ...
Steamboat City Council repeals code that aimed to build affordable housing
Opponents worry repeal would eliminate city's role in providing local affordable housing
With access resolved, West Steamboat Neighborhoods and Overlook Park move one step closer to construction
Both developments will have temporary road access to U.S. 40
City council FYI: Blueprint for understanding housing success
Steamboat Springs City Council deals with a large number of policy issues every year. From my time on City Council and the decades prior, it is quite apparent housing policy has been one of the...
Yampa Valley Housing Authority hopes to break ground on another west side affordable development in 2020
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The Yampa Valley Housing Authority is working toward a new affordable housing project on Steamboat Springs’ west side with the developer Gorman and Co. The development is planned for a corner lot...