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RESOLUTION NO. I~
(Series of 1980)
A RESOLUTION DECLARING THAT CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY, SPECIFICALLY
LOTS 1 and 2 OF THE ASPEN EMPLOYEE HOUSING NO. 1 SUBDIVISION, IS
NOT CURRENTLY IN USE FOR A PUBLIC PURPOSE AND MAY THEREFORE BE
SOLD, EXCHANGED OR DISPOSED OF WITHOUT A VOTE OF THE ELECTORS
WHEREAS, the City of Aspen is the owner of certain real
property situated in the City of Aspen, Pitkin County, State of
Colorado, described as follows:
Lots 1 and 2 of the Aspen Employees Housing No.
Aspen, Colorado,
and,
1 Subdivision
WHEREAS, said property was purchased on May 14, 1971, as part
of an open space acquisition which comprised the Municipal Golf
Course and additional properties, and
WHEREAS, the deed for said property was placed of record on
August 12, 1971, in Book 256 of Deeds at Page 933 in the Office of
the Clerk and Recorder, Pitkin County, State of Colorado, and
WHEREAS, said property was annexed to the City of Aspen in
April of 1971 by the adoption of Ordinance No. 8, Series of 1971,
and
WHEREAS~ on August 3, 1971, the Planning and Zoning Commis-
sion reco~aended that the lands acquired in said open space acqui-
sition be zoned Park (P) with the exception and singling out for
special treatment said property, for which R-15(Residential) was
13, 1971, City Council,
of 1971, did adopt the
by the adoption
recommendation
recon~ended, and
WHEREAS, on September
of Ordinance No. 23, Series
of the Planning'and Zoning Conuaission, and
WHEREAS, Section 13.4 of the Charter of the City of Aspen,
Colorado, states that the City Council "shaLl not sell, exchange
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or dispose of ... real property currently in use for public pur-
poses wthout first obtaining the approval of a majority of the
electors voting thereon", and
WHEREAS, the City Council does find:
(1) that the property was unimproved when purchased in 1971;
(2) that the property is currently unimproved and essentially
in the same condition as the date it was purchased;
(3) that the property was purchased as part of an open space
acquisition for the development of a municipal golf
course;
(4) that as a result of the size, shape and location of the
property and the surrounding uses the property could not
and cannot be incorporated into the municipal golf
course;
(5) that the property was specifically and consciously zoned
residential;
(6) that it is reasonable to interpret from said action to
zone that the property was not intended to become park
property; and
(7) that from 1971 to the present the City has treated the
property as residential property and has made no use of
the property.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ASPEN, COLORADO:
Section 1
That said property is found not to be currently in use for a
public purpose(s).
Section 2
That the City has no present or anticipated future use for
the property with the exception of employee housing which purpose
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is to be served by sale of the property with conditions restrict-
ing both price and future availability as housing for members of
the municipal staff and the superintendent of
District RE-1.
Section 3
That said property may, therefore, be sold,
disposed of without a vote of the electors.
Dated:
the Aspen School
exchanged or
He
Mayor
I, Kathryn S. Koch, duly appointed and acting City Clerk of
the City of Aspen, Colorado, hereby certify that the foregoing is
a true and accurate copy of that resolution adopted by the City
Council of the City of Aspen, Colorado, at a meeting held on the
9th day of June 1980.
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Kathryn S.~Koch
City Clerk
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