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REGULAR MEETING ASPEN CITY COUNCIL JUNE 30, 2022
At 2:00 p.m. Mayor Torre called the regular meeting to order with Councilors Doyle, Hauenstein,
Richards, and Mesirow present.
PUBLIC HEARINGS:
Ordinance #13, Series of 2022 – Residential Building – Response to Moratorium and
Ordinance #14, Series of 2022 – Annual Update to Housing Fee-in-Lieu
Phillip Supino, Community Development Director; Ben Anderson, City Planner; and Jessica Garrow,
Design Workshop; were present to discuss both Ordinances.
Mr. Supino said they have prepared responses for what was asked on Tuesday night. He said the way
that staff engaged with the public, they heard from hundreds of respondents from a broad variety of
people. Tuesday night, we heard from a narrow group of people who are affected.
Mr. Supino explained the difference between option 1 and option 2.
Councilor Richards said she can support either direction, but tends to believe the original ordinance is
sufficient, but would make a modification to increase the annual allotments to eight and leave the
multiyear process in place.
Councilor Mesirow said he favors option 1. We don’t want to create an unfair playing field.
Councilor Hauenstein said it seems like everyone is on the same page with option 1.
Mayor Torre said he still supports option 2. He said option 2A is a creation of somewhere in between.
Council continued discussion.
Councilor Richards motioned to approve Ordinance #13, Series of 2022 with the language changed to
include section 2A as we’ve seen here on screen and make any other language changes in the document
for alignment; Councilor Hauenstein seconded.
Councilor Mesirow said he appreciates the goal of having a unified approach and is asking for an
amendment to the motion and go from eight to seven.
Councilor Doyle said he’s disappointed. He will go along with Councilor Mesirow’s suggestion of raising
to seven.
Councilor Richards said she’s not supportive of that change.
Councilor Mesirow motioned to amend the motion to adopt with option 2A but limiting the additional
number from 2 to one; Councilor Doyle seconded.
James R. True, City Attorney, said to clarify, the motion is to amend the second sentence there where it
says “up to two allotments”, so it should say, “one additional allotment”.
Mayor Torre said he does not support the amendment to the motion.
Councilor Hauenstein said he’d like to stick with the original and doesn’t support the amendment.
Roll call vote: Doyle, yes; Hauenstein, no; Mesirow, yes; Richards, no; Torre, no. 2-3, motion fails.
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REGULAR MEETING ASPEN CITY COUNCIL JUNE 30, 2022
Councilor Mesirow said democracy is messy and that’s a feature, not a bug. He said he will be
supporting this.
Mayor Torre said he supports the demolition regulations they are looking at; he supports the
appropriate affordable housing mitigation on residential building development, he supports a
streamlined approval process, and supports the additional inclusive affordable housing opportunities.
He will be supporting this motion today.
Roll call vote: Doyle, yes; Hauenstein, yes; Mesirow, yes; Richards, yes; Torre, yes. 5-0, motion carried.
Councilor Hauenstein moved to approve Ordinance #14, Series of 2022; Councilor Richards seconded.
Councilor Richards noted that we had a public discussion on this ordinance on Tuesday night as well.
Roll call vote: Doyle, yes; Hauenstein, yes; Mesirow, yes; Richards, yes; Torre, yes. 5-0, motion carried.
Councilor Mesirow motioned to adjourn; Councilor Richards seconded. Roll call vote: Doyle, yes;
Hauenstein, yes; Mesirow, yes; Richards, yes; Torre, yes. 5-0, motion carried.
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Nicole Henning, City Clerk