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HomeMy WebLinkAboutresolution.apz.022-70Draft, 10/27/70 CITY OF ASPEN PLANNING & ZONING RESOLUTION WHEREAS, transportation problems exist in the Aspen Area which include vehicular congestion on the State Highway through the City of Aspen as well as west and east of Aspen and by conditions which endanger the safety of those using the highway west of Aspen and conflicts between vehicular and pedestrian traffic, inadequate parking spaces and vehicular congestion in the central area of the City of Aspen; and WHEREAS, a transportation-circulation system plan together with an open space network plan are the major design elements of the community and the factors which influence land development and determine the extent of the communities reliance on the automobile; and WHEREAS, there is a need to consider the exclusion of the automobile in the central area of the Cityof Aspen and to consider limiting the number of automobiles that can enter the City of Aspen and a need exists to integrate highway plans with a total transportation-circulation system plan to comprehensively solve the above mentioned problems; and WHEREAS, the responsibility, in part, to avoid further problems which will result from transportation planning which does not reasonably integrate land use, airports, highways, mass transportation and the presen~ status of planning and development in the Aspen Area by assisting in the formulation and implementation of a comprehensive transportation- circulation plan. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Cityof Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission shall propose a plan which will provide solutions to the problems within the City of Aspen of vehicular and pedestrian conflicts, vehicular congestion and inadequate parking and which will propose a transportation-circulation plan for the central area of the City of Aspen. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission shall develop jointly with the Pitkin County Planning and Zoning Commission an Aspen transportation committee and the State Highway a Department/highway plan~ which is in balance with and part of a compre- hensive transportation-circulation system plan which will encourage the use of the highway corridor for mass transportation as well as for the use of the automobile, which will consider limiting the number of automobiles entering the City and which will consider alternative highway alignments. PREAMBLE The Planning Commission has taken note of the fact that two planning questions appear on the ballot for the November 3rd General Election. After due consideration, it is the consensus of the Commission that: 1. - The questions, as worded, are an oversimplification of complex issues. 2. - Public referendum on specific planning questions is of greater value if alternative plans and their implications have been studied and made public and the alternatives appear on the ballot. 3. - Since the examination of alternative plans has not in this instance been undertaken, the information obtained from the questions raised on the November 3rd ballot will be of limited value CITY OF ASPEN PLANNING & ZONING RESOLUTION WHEREAS, transportation problems exist in the Aspen Area which include vehicular congestion on the State Highway thru the City of Aspen as well as west and east of Aspen, conditions endangering the safety of those using the highway west of Aspen, conflicts between vehicular and pedestrian traffic, inadequate parking spaces and vehicular congestion in the central area of the City of Aspen; and WHEREAS, a transportation-circulation system plan together with an open space network plan are the major design elements of the community and the factors which influence land development and determine the extent of the community's reliance on the automobile; and WHEREAS, there is a need to consider the exclusion of the automobile in the central area of the City of Aspen and to consider limiting the number of automobiles that can enter the City of Aspen and a need exists to integrate highway plans with a total transportation- circulation system plan to comprehensivly solve the above mentioned problems; and WHEREAS, the responsibility, in part, to avoid further problems which will result from transportation planning which does not reasonably integrate land use, airports, highways, mass transportation and the present status of planning and development in the Aspen Area by assisting in the formulation and implementation of a comprehensive transportation- circulation plan. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission shall as a matter of first priority, propose a plan which will provide solutions to the problems within the City of Aspen of vehicular and pedestrian conflicts, vehicular congestion and inadequate parking and which will propose a transportation-circulation plan for the central area of the City of Aspen. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission shall develop jointly with the Pit'kin County Planning and Zoning Commission the Aspen Transportation Committee and the State Highway Department a highway plan which is in balance with and part of a comprehensive transportation-circulation system plan which will encourage the use of the highway corridor for mass transportation as well as for the use of the automobile, which will consider limiting the number of automobiles entering the City and which will consider alternative highway alignments. DATED THIS 28th DAY OF OCTOBER, 1970. /s/ Robin Molny Chairman Aspen Planning and Zoning Commissio~ ASPEN P~INNING & ZONING COMMISSION RESOLUTION WHEREAS, it is the intention of the City of Aspen Planning and Zoning ComMission to adopt a transportation plan which shall be included in the 1966 Aspen Area General Plan as an amendment thereto, and WHEREAS, the alternative highway alignments for the west entrance of highway 82, prepared by Alan Mo Voorhees & Assoco Inc. have been analyzed by the Planning and Zoning Commission, NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Planning and Zoning Commission's findings concerning the west entrance of highway 82 to Aspen are as follows: 1) The preferred method of relieving highway congestion at the entrance to Aspen is by providing a transit system 2) That the final highway entrance should not be determined indePendently of an alignment for a transit system° 3) The possibility of implementing ~ bus transit system should be investigated with the City of Aspen, Pitkin County, Aspen Skiing Corporation and Aspen Highlands~'~z~- 4o Engineering design drawings, environmental impact statements and field inspections will be necessary for the Planning and Zoning Cormnission to resolve the alignment of the west highway entrance° 5° That the Planning and Zoning Commission is desirous of developing a partnership approach with the highway department so that the plan for the final highway entrance can be developed as a joint community-highway effor~ ~ ~ ~ ~