Art Goodtimes | ||||||||||
I ran as a Green for County Commissioner in CO.
| Important Issues: | |
 | Of all the important issues facing San Miguel County, some of the most crucial are presented here.
Workforce Housing – Probably the thorniest problem facing resort communities is keeping a middle class intact, where the high and low end thrive in the free market. It takes government intervention to provide rental and ownership opportunities for the workforce necessary for a functioning, sustainable community. Art has worked with the other commissioners, negotiating ski expansion housing mitigation, working on the joint Telluride-County Gold Run project, giving land to a Norwood Habitat for Humanity project. Most recently Art has initiated discussions with the U.S. Forest Service and set up an Intergovernmental Task Force to explore land trades to provide new land for workforce housing within the Telluride Region. Open Space – Art joined the other commissioners in championing a mill levy dedicated to recreation and open space that was used to start the County’s Purchase of Development Rights program, protecting open space and saving ag lands from residential development. Art also got the County to contribute twice its announced contribution (from $100,000 to $200,000) towards the purchase of the Valley Floor as open space after the demoralizing Delta court decision doubled the cost the Town of Telluride was hoping to pay in its condemnation case. Recreation funds have also been spent on the Basin fairgrounds in Norwood and the new Downvalley Park. Transportation – With the rising cost of gasoline and other energy fuels, travel will become ever more costly for individuals in our wide open spaces of the West, and it will become incumbent on governments to provide more public transportation. The County already has a nascent public transit system, the Galloping Goose, that it jointly runs with the Town of Telluride. Regionally, Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel counties are cooperating on a grant to explore regional transportation options. And at a recent Intergovernmental meeting Art (along with Telluride Mayor Stu Fraser) called for the creation of a Regional Transportation Authority to start our region down the road towards widely available public transit. |
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