HomeMy WebLinkAboutresolution.apz.021-85RESOLUTION OF THE ASPEN pLANNING AND ZONING (X)MMISSION
ADOPTING TEE ROARING FORK EAST NEIGHBORHOOD M~STER PLAN
Resolution No. 85-21
WHEREAS, the City of Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission
(hereinafter "Commission") is authorized to periodically review,
revise, amend and extend in greater detail components of the Compre-
hensive Plan for the City of Aspen; and
WHEREAS, the Commission is presently considering the revision of
the 1974 Roaring Fork East Amendment to the 1966 Aspen Area General
Plan; and
WHEREAS, the boundaries of the Roaring Fork East Neighborhood
Planning Area include land contiguous with State Highway 82 between
the City of Aspen and the Difficult Campground; and
WHEREAS, the revised Plan for the Roaring Fork East Area will be
known as the Roaring Fork East Neighborhood Master Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Commission, in cooperation with the Pitkin County
Planning and Zoning Commission, is developing a new Comprehensive Plan
for the Aspen Area; and
WHEREAS, the area within the Roaring Fork East Neighborhood
Master Plan corresponds with two (2) of the fourteen (14) planning
areas within the Aspen Area; and
WHEREAS, the Roaring Fork East Neighborhood Master Plan will be
one component of the Aspen Area Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, the existing conditions in the Roaring Fork East
Neighborhood Master Planning Area have been analyzed and documented
within the Aspen Area Comprehensive Plan: Existing Conditions in the
Aspen Area (August 1984); and
WHEREAS, a public neighborhood meeting was held on March 28,
1984 and October 8, 1985; and
WHEREAS, the Commission held public meetings on June 4, 1985 to
discuss land use considerations in the planning area; and
WHEREAS, it is understood by the Commission that development of
the Roaring Fork East Neighborhood Master Plan is an ongoing process
and that after future consideration it may be necessary to revise the
plan prior to adoption; and
WHEREAS, it is understood by the Commission and Aspen City
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Council that comprehensive plans are conceptual in nature and subject
to revision to provide future land use flexibility.
NOW, TEEREFORE, BE 1T RESOLVED by the Commission that the Roaring
Fork East Neighborhood Master Plan be adopted as a component of the
Aspen Area Comprehensive Plan to be used as a guide for capital
improvements, land use application reviews and annexation·
BE IT FURTEER RESOLVED that the Aspen Area Comprehensive Plan:
Roaring Fork East Neighborhood Master Plan supercede the 1974 Roaring
Fork East Amendment to the 1966 Aspen Area General Plan as the adopted
plan for the area·
BE 1T FINALLY RESOLVED that the Roaring Fork East Neighborhood
Master Plan as adopted by the City of Aspen Planning and Zoning
Commission is identical to the Plan adopted by the Pitkin County
Planning and Zoning Commission with the following two exceptions:
Page 1, Third Paragraph, Lines 4 through 6. The following
language is the adopted language:
"Approximately 71 percent, or 1500 acres of the 2,110 acres
of land in the NPA are federally owned (United States Forest
Service, Bureau of Land Management) and presently have no
development potential unless the Federal government seeks to
sell the land to developers."
2. Page 19. Add the following two actions:
"O
The Roaring Fork Transit
a mass transit stop to
Preserve.
Agency should seek to develop
serve the North Star Nature
A new trail from the City of Aspen to Difficult
Campground should be located separate from the State
Highway 82 right-of-way, if possible."
APPROVED by the Commission at
1985.
ATTEST:
Klm Wilhoit, Deputy City Clerk
its regular meeting on October 8,
ASPEN PLANNING AND ZONING
CO~ISSION
C. Welton (Anderson
Chair per son