HomeMy WebLinkAboutresolution.apz.008-80 RESOLUTION OF THE ASPEN PLANNING
AND ZONING COMMISSION REGARDING THE
ASPEN INSTITUTE S.P.A.
Resolution No. 80 - ~
WHEREAS, the Planning and Zoning Commission, on May 16, 1980, made a
recommendation to the Aspen City Council regarding proposed Ordinance #80-21,
approving a Specially Planned Area for the Aspen Institute, and
WHEREAS, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of
the proposed ordinance subject to certain conditions and recommended
language revisions, and
WHEREAS, one of the recommended revisions involved the definition of
conference center and included language to the effect of guaranteeing full
day use of conference facilities and intense, educational conference usage of
the property, rather than more tourist-oriented conference use, and
WHEREAS, this Commission believes strongly that this distinction is
key to any exemption for the Institute from the provisions of the Growth
Management Quota allocation system, and without this distinction, the
Growth Managment Plan is seriously undermined, and
FURTHERMORE, the lack of such conditions raises the greater possibility
of the property being used as a common tourist hotel, with the attendant impacts
on site and to the surrounding neighborhood,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission,
in recognition of the action of City Council on first reading of Ordinance #80-21
deleting the Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission's recommended language, the
Commission advises the Aspen City Council that its motion on the proposed
Ordinance #80-21 would have been a recommendation of denial.
Adopted unanimously by the Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission at
it regular meeting on July 8, 1980.
ATTEST:
Deputy City Clerk
ASPEN PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION