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August 7, 2013
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From: Susan C ONeal <susaninas
Subject: Fwd: Letter to the pen44�a
Date* Editor gmail.com>
August 6, 2013 5:55:45 PM MDT
Editor:
Flounder or Flourish?
Call to the Aspen business community--- le
lose) and realize its more important Please mobilize all of you underground parkin p°rtant to look FORWARD than BACKWgRpVe much to
some dust and turmoil timenelotn Wagner Park. gain (or
reduced and retail and restaurant businesses Short term thinking is that there will be
g term thinking is that Aspen's traffic congestion
As far as the ex esses will surge! will be
locals with the VISION and underground
LOSING parking garage is concerned
WISDOM to realize local businesses and restaurants
MONEY because there's no � we need to find
tell me they don't come a towns o Place to ed Mare
Businesses and restaurants would b park in the core. People on Red
p or dine because there's no Mountain
tax revenue---if people could come to benefit financial) Place to
because the decision wasn't made y and the City ark.
n and park while the y w°uld benefit from
core, doesn't mean it shouldn't be done NOWto build an underground their e i nt
Aspen's future de NOW. Better late than never y' dust
depends on it. garage in the
er......because
Susan O'Neal
Aspen
Guest Commentary
That was then—this is now! An idea whose time has come!
The time for an underground
NOWT The news parking garage beneath
last week h paper reported there were 18,000 Wagner Park is
around in circles looking they park? The _ people in Aspen
king for an elusivee/o�n't they just kept driving
As Ion on-existent parking space.
9 ago as Oct. 23 1969 Aspen
asked, "When will Aspen becom the Place candidate Joe Edwards
residents moved here to escape lace you left?... -many As ards
living, to get away pe the turmoil and trauma of by pen
frenzy... .,but if we are noraffic jams, con 9 city
disc 1 t careful congestion, noise and
disappear when As , Aspen's unique assets can
style of Aspen. The hub of any city destroys the charm
is also the target for all of the urbay is its business section and
vulnerable area, subject to faster det That hub
n blights and thus, it is the most
areas... ration Pollution and congestion than outlying
time. We can llu gestion spread
now. According p the deterioration and congestion quickly, but we still have
Problems. g to Joe Edwards " ---but we must act
We needs generalities will not solve the
grace of our business co a is solutions to preserve the chars
Edwards warns if action it not taken is was written in Oct. 1969 character and
downtown Aspen with a resultant de'
Based we will see the deterioration
Based on discussions with various ion of
ecline in tourism and retail sales.
because people simply can't park merchants, that day has c
their cars for shopping On July 18 1991 ppmg and dining.
Times declares: ", page Jeffrey Evans' opinion in the Aspen
requirements of the automobile cispt and
nothing lan for the legitimate
g else... .lt has become eXtremelys doamaging as planning for
situation as being the fault of spoiled
p pular to characterize the
automobiles, but the fact is our entiire brats who refuse to give u t
personal productivity are inextricably ociety and economy p heir
Y to our Y and
On December 12, 1991 George mobility."
"Cars are final) a 9 Madsen writes in the Aspen
Walls who finally problem here,, when he p Times:
suggested the solution to lack oquoted councilman Jack
under city streets. George Madsen o parkin ar
pines "P g was to tunnel
king was a major
Political issue in the early "70's___
even the installation of restricted parkin
group of downtown retapers�nsometers. At one city by our and
handles (they were kidding, me carrying baseball bats and meeting, a
other council members exited by a side course) confronted the mayor as e
parking garage and plans fora second one." ..In the "80,s we the
one. got a
Jump ahead to Brent Gardner-Smith
in the Aspen Dail h who reported on Dec. 31
Aspen implemented swan the city's website notes that " � of
designed to decrease con transportation plan and t the city e
our small town character.'congestion improve air parking management
did NOT Sorry, but over the last four d preserve
happen.
years---this
Gardner-Smith reports there were 8
the time—how does that com 50 downtown
reported to be in town last weekte with the 18,000 parking spaces at
. It doesn't compute.
people who were
Christine Benedetti reported in pate.
2007 Aspen retail sho the Aspen Daily News on Oct. 14
move m peers were complaining, You are forcing MY car every two hours.,,
g me to
Benedetti reported Steamboat Springs
eight hour parkin p ngs had two hour
had a "come-on-in-and no paid parking in the city core Parking and
park community". � as Steamboat
Dale McKittrick, Telluride parkin
park-and-ride lots outside of town enforcer,, re
alternative to shuffling their reported Telluride had two
h offered commuters a FREE
drivers and skiers into town o the town.
Telluride shuttles take both
Y on't have to move their cars.
In Park City, Utah
an hour, but nearby aid parking is limited to three hour chunk
Y garages offer free park-and-ride Options at $1
Jeremiah Simpson, a s.
Consultants in Denver said) "the multi consultant with
into a intention is to Walker Parking
parking garage which allows get Your all-day
turn over as the average retail visit Your spaces in parkers
s less than Your core district to
two hours.
Vail, a town with apedestrian-onl
y Core, has a 2,500 space
parking in the parking in the winter but in summer,
garage which charges for
garage is free and it's free after 3:00 P
Mayor gill Stirling Year round!
Mayor with g had hoped to create a "car
parking lots provided outside of town but those during
dream of not having the
-since Henry automobiles in As but those who
rY Ford created the assembly ineeth to check into reality-_
to stay and Pretending a automobile is
fool's dream. g We can leave cars at the edge ere
away from the center people will park in an inconvenient ge of town is a
unrealistic. of town with-retail-and-restau ants i also location
People won't leave their cars behind,
themselves behind! The also
themselves
to other resorts that roust wont come to Asp they'll n the
Provide convenient parking for visitors.
heY Can
I am calling upon the business co
persuade the City Council of the importance mat to
parkin y mobilize efforts to
g beneath Wagner Park----wich w of building underground
increased tax revenues from inc restaurant generate
business. r and
ased nd r etail
Most of Aspen's events take place in
surrounded by restaurants and retail businesses Wagner Park which is
benefit tremendously from Wagner which would all
would benefit from retail sales tax r enderground
business. generated from ncrease City Hall
d
Residents of Red Mountain have to
the evenings for dinner because the d me the
a parking space. How much Y know they won't b e b town in
become when w. lose anotherV ARSE do be able to find
The situation has become intolerable you think the situation will
parking spaces to the art museum?
Creating events to promote `heads and it's time to TAKE ACTION.
With creating places for n pillows goes hand in han
people to park their vehicles. d
Wagner Park is the most convenie
underground parking and R nt and best location for
underground under ubey Park is the obvious entra
Park is just parking d as
ng garage. The amount of water Wa for an
rt of the project for the engineers an is NOT a for pa
sufficient reason for keeping thin
impossible for residents and visitor as they are-__
s alike frustrating and
I don't need to remind mind you Vail has T
which are free from q TWO Centrally located
free after 3:00 P April 15 until ski season parking
business—which year round to encourage begins---also benefits the cit ge evenin r g and are
located where 9 restaurant
People want to y's coffers. Parkin
go---not in an inconvenie 9 location!
to be
Helen Klanderud told me a
mayor named gags w
suggest an underground parkin
Aspen had no g Y as the first to
Population ex losion garage back in the 50'
population explosion p Now that we DO
located , there is no time to waste in creating have a
underground
Aspen's commerce depends garage beneath Wagner a centrally
pends on it. finer Park. I believe
Just because "they"
to listen! Climb o may say it can't be done, doesn't
VISION to solve one of Aspen's board step t mean
p aside, but please don't impede have
biggest problems--- pede our
Again—► am calling for everyone►
efforts to g on the Aspen business co
is necessary City Council of the irp importance to
to create an p Vance o f community mobilize
be used and where it will beneerground 9 whatever
fit locals Parking the it will
I hope the business community the most.
(hopefully donated or mmunity has the VISION to real'
ize the cost
Let's engage the the business p°rary inconvenience is
October and F private sector to be Community and the city.
June. OCIJS to gin digging after
get the garage completed by Roo 9ertest in
Food & Wine in
Carpe diem and forward ho!
Susan O'Neal
Aspen
From: Susan C
Subject Bus termi�al should be rnas
pen44 @gmail elocated to Buttermmilk
Date: August 6, 2013 5: ilk
57:20 PM MDT
Relocate bus terminal to Buttermilk
Mayor Steve:
The genera{ consensus of the visionar ,
should NEVER have y people ! ve s
the bus hub vv been put in the center of p°ken to believe
as a mistake from the beginnin Aspen in the first I Aspen's bus terminal
traffic into the center of town pate. Ravin
all of which w g nneces ar it brought con g Rubey Park as
as unnecessary. geSt1°n and noise and
The obvious place for
park outside town r a bus terminal vV
educin as and is Buttermilk where both vehicles
depart from Rube g traffic congestion and noise.
brie p y park do not need to originate in town. Ele and buses can
g peo le into Aspen ever Many of the buses that currently
terminal. Many peO le r y 15 minutes and Rube p ctric buses (like Vail has
many of As p a e telling me the bus terminal sh uldebe rel could
Please con pder problems. a bus stop, not a bus
elocated to Buttermilk to so{ve
ISusan O'Neal
Aspen