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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExhibit B_SkiCo qualitative parameters1 Lift 1a Alternatives Qualitative Criteria and Functional Requirements Aspen Skiing Company 11-28-17 Dating to the original South Aspen Street COWOP, Aspen Skiing Company has consistently described the design goals and qualitative criteria necessary to provide and meet ASC’s desired ski experience, guest services, and operational necessities in the Lift 1a portal. These design goals and criteria are: • Provide convenient mountain access for resort guests and occupants of the area, • Meet uphill transportation requirements and guest expectations, • Balance mountain access and use; spread and disperse skier traffic, • Foster repeat skiing, • Accommodate, adequately stage and service World Cup and other race events, • Do not impair or cause a loss of terrain, • Maintain mountain road access, • Provide emergency vehicle access, • Incorporate typical skier services, as well as back-of-house operational facilities, • Connect the bottom of the mountain to the built environment, and • Avoid constrained, impractical or unpopular snowmaking and maintenance requirements within a residential neighborhood. To provide a feasible, functional ski portal and meet operational requirements, brand standards and guest expectations, Aspen Skiing Company considers the following criteria to be functional and qualitative requirements for lift alternatives in the South Aspen Street / Lift 1a portal. Some requirements may be expressed as prohibitions, rendering alternatives or components of alternatives infeasible or dysfunctional and unacceptable to Aspen Skiing Company. 1. Ski Run Width: A ski run returning to a Dean Street base terminal location must be a minimum operational width of 66 feet edge to edge, not including any other set back from the face of buildings and other structures. This trail width is the equivalent of three snowcat tracks wide. ASC considers this trail width to be essential for continuous skiing to a Dean Street terminal location, snow grooming and maintenance. Such a trail must be unimpeded and clear of trees, shrubs, fences, equipment, the historic ski towers and other structures or obstructions to skiing and snowcat travel, all of which must be removed. 2 2. Snowmaking, Snow Management, Maintenance and Grooming: (a) Snowmaking, snow management, maintenance and grooming must be provided and included in each lift location Scenario to assure adequate snow cover, in sufficient quantities and quality for 140 days of operation. In particular, a lower lift terminal location at or near Dean Street requires snowmaking, snow management and grooming to occur in the lower 250 feet of the ski run and must include snowmaking and storage on City property and the Dolinsek property. (b) Snowmaking, maintenance and grooming activities generate substantial impacts from drifting snow, noise generated by snow guns, noise generated by snowcats, visual impacts, and other impacts associated with the activities of mountain personnel and related ski operations, both during the day and at night. The City, surrounding property owners and others who may be affected by such operational impacts will have to provide ASC with acknowledgments, variances, waivers and releases concerning such impacts, including, but not limited to relief from provisions in the land use code and other regulations and release from complaints or claims for nuisance and similar causes of action. 3. Skier / Pedestrian Circulation: In any alternative, sufficient space must be provided for pedestrian and skier circulation to and from the snow, including ADA access and milling, racking, and mazing areas sized to accommodate a 1,200 pph lift and a 10 minute maze design capacity and/or sufficient to accommodate a 10% initial portal peak day demand [approx. 400 skiers], while also maintaining sufficient space for on-snow lift approach, repeat skiing and bypass skier circulation. 4. Ticketing and Guest Services: Ticketing and guest services including public restrooms, lockers, cubbies or other guest storage [totaling approx. 1,000 – 1,500 s.f.], must be located at or immediately adjacent to the lower lift terminal, wherever it is located. 5. Employee / Ski Patrol Operational Facilities: Base Area employee and Ski Patrol equipment station, office and lockers [approx.. 1,500 s.f.], together with access to public restrooms or the provision of separate Patrol restrooms [approx. 300 s.f.], must be located on the Gorsuch site or adjacent to the mountain access road and the top of the South Aspen Street cul de sac. Ski Patrol facilities must be directly accessible from snow level and adjacent to the mountain access road and Emergency Service Vehicle staging. 6. Emergency Service Access and Staging: Emergency vehicle access and staging must be located at the top of South Aspen Street, immediately accessible to snow to enable the 3 transfer of injured skiers from sleds to ambulances. Ambulance staging must be located outside of the street Right of Way and fire lane(s). 7. Mountain Access Road: The mountain access road must be maintained in any Scenario and site plan, including both winter and summer access for wheeled and tracked vehicles. Winter surface width for snowcat or skier use should be no less than 30’ wide. Summer surface width should be no less than 15’ wide. Grade should not exceed 15% slope. Vertical clearance of 14’ minimum is required. Sufficient staging and circulation space must be maintained to: (a) turn a cat around in winter conditions, and (b) park, unload, and transfer materials and heavy equipment to and from trucks in both winter and summer conditions. 8. Maintenance Access: Summer vehicular and heavy equipment access must be provided legally and physically to the lift terminal, towers, cables and other lift equipment, wherever located, for construction, replacement, repair and other maintenance, including on properties not owned by ASC as may be required. 9. No Surface Lift: No surface lift, such as a Poma or similar surface carrier, shall be installed or shall such a lift be operated and maintained by ASC, which attempts or is designed to (a) provide access to an upper lift terminal, and (b) include a separate groomed and maintained return skiing trail in any corridor less than 66’ wide or (c) to include a shared uphill and downhill track in the same corridor of any width, maintained or not, requiring alternating operation. 10. No Mid-Station Terminal: No Scenario or lower lift alternative location shall include a separate and additional mid-station terminal on the Gorsuch Haus site due to capacity and operational redundancies, terminal size, site plan and grading impacts, spatial and maintenance constraints, and circulation restrictions.