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Home My WebLink AboutLandcaping Affadavit and Memo - 1100 Black Birch Drive, LPA23-070 September 1, 2023 Amy Simon City of Aspen Community Development Department 130 South Galena Street Aspen, Colorado 81611 Re: Supplemental Affidavit from Christine Gordon – Prior owner of 1100 Black Birch Drive, The Subject Property Requesting Approval of a Stream Margin Review for LPRP Mill LLC, Lot 10 Black Birch Estates Subdivision - LPA-23-070 (Parcel ID # 2735-013-07-017) Dear Amy, LPRP Mill LLC (“Applicant”) owns a developed single-family lot located at 1100 Black Birch Drive. An application for a Stream Margin Review was submitted for this property on August 1, 2022. The Applicant is providing a supplemental affidavit the former property owner at 1100 Black Birch Drive, Christine Gordon, pursuant to discussions with Luis Prado, Zoning Enforcement Officer. The attached affidavit includes personal knowledge pertaining to the existence of major landscaping improvements installed prior to Ordinance 95-1995 which enacted the riparian setback requirement from the high-water mark. This Ordinance is discussed in detail in the land use application. Please contact me with any question or concerns. Sincerely, Cody Davis Horn AICP 71 ji a.L4 DECLARATION OF CHRISTINE GORDON LANDSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS TO 1100 BLACK BIRCH DRIVE PRIOR TO 2004 I, Christine Gordon, declare as follows: 1. I am over the age of eighteen and have personal knowledge of the facts contained in this Declaration. 2. I was the former property owner with my husband Sheldon Gordon of 1100 Black Birch Drive, Aspen, Colorado, 81611 ("Property"). During our ownership starting in late 1991, we inherited, installed, and performed landscaping at the Property. 3. We had a lawn down to the river and paths with stepping stones early on, and I recall birthday parties on the lawn by the river with my daughter, a toddler, in the early 1990s. 4. Some of the major landscaping improvements that we had designed and installed at the property during the period of our ownership included a flagstone walkway from the house down to the Roaring Fork River and off to the right to an area where we had a dining table, chairs and a couple of lounge chairs and ottomans by the river which we loved. Not far away, we also had children's play equipment installed: swings, slides, etc., so we could easily watch the children play from this lovely outdoor area. We had a dense Bluegrass lawn from the house down to the rocky edge of the Roaring Fork River. In addition, we had to install a rather large culvert further up from the river to protect against flooding, as the property is very close to the confluence of the Roaring Fork River and Maroon Creek. Hence, my late husband and I named the property "River Run." 5. Some of this landscaping work was done shortly after we became owners, and we continued to make the yard and gardens by the river nice and useable. 6. I recall that we improved the yard over the years. The DNC asked us to host a cocktail and dinner party for 100 guests in honor of then -President Bill Clinton. Before that summer event, we had planned a MAJOR landscaping plan. Thus, we gathered the gardeners working on the installation and told them that we had been asked to host the event for the President, gave them the date, and told them we could not do the event unless the landscape on the river side of the house was completed the week prior to the event. We also told them they would each be invited to the outdoor Cocktail Event before the dinner for 100 people inside our home. They assured us that they would commit to completing the work on time. They did, and it was sensational! When the President entered our house, I told him what the gardeners had done and that they were all out in the garden and would love the opportunity to meet him. The President spent so much time with the gardeners talking and picture - taking that the DNC was furious as it threw off their schedule for the President to enter the house for Dinner! 7. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of Colorado that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on them day of August, 2023 Z41. INV. A(Al '41 low L U` I ,��% t��_2 ��T� ° � W l.�rS�-1 { i J�. E=-. , . *.. - �.�. L M�► I 'AT a4� 2 47R ? P/ cu/ C| /\.yO--LJLyV'~J=^^^ ’ ^ ■▶ DECLARATION OF CHRISTINE GORDON LANDSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS TO 1100 BLACK BIRCH DRIVE PRIOR TO 2004 I, Christine Gordon, declare as follows: 1.Iam over the age of eighteen and have personal knowledge of the facts contained in this Declaration. 2.Iwas the former property owner with my husband Sheldon Gordon of 1100 Black Birch Drive, Aspen, Colorado, 81611 (“Property”). During our ownership starting in late 1991, we inherited, installed, and performed landscaping at the Property. We had alawn down to the river and paths with stepping stones early on, and Irecall birthday parties on the lawn by the river with my daughter, atoddler, in the early 1990s. Some of the major landscaping improvements that we had designed and installed at the property during the period of our ownership included aﬂagstone walkway from the house down to the Roaring Fork River and off to the right to an area where we had adining table, chairs and acouple of lounge chairs and ottomans by the river which we loved. Not far away, we also had children’s play equipment installed: swings, slides, etc., so we could easily watch the children play from this lovely outdoor area. We had adense Bluegrass lawn from the house down to the rocky edge of the Roaring Fork River. In addition, we had to install arather large culvert ﬁirther up from the river to protect against ﬂooding, as the property is very close to the conﬂuence of the Roaring Fork River and Maroon Creek. Hence, my late husband and Inamed the property “River Run.” Some of this landscaping work was done shortly after we became owners, and we continued to make the yard and gardens by the river nice and useable. 3. 4. 5. Irecall that we improved the yard over the years. The DNC asked us to host acocktail and dinner party for 100 guests in honor of then-President Bill Clinton. Before that summer event, we had planned aMAJOR landscaping plan. Thus, we gathered the gardeners working on the installation and told them that we had been asked to host the event for the President, gave them the date, and told them we could not do the event unless the landscape on the river side of the house was completed the week prior to the event. We also told them they would each be invited to the outdoor Cocktail Event before the dinner for 100 people inside our home. They assured us that they would commit to completing the work on time. They did, and it was sensational! When the President entered our house, I told him what the gardeners had done and that they were all out in the garden and would love the opportunity to meet him. The President spent so much time with the gardeners talking and picture¬ taking that the DNC was furious as it threw off their schedule for the President to enter the house for Dinner! 6. 7.1declare under penalty of pequry under the laws of Colorado that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on the^i day of August, 2023 JuA Christine Gord^ T c