Aspen Lumberyard Affordable Housing

Minimize parking

Given the proximity to town and the established mass transit and trails along with the bottleneck of cars already at that location it seems rather extravagant and wasteful to create so much parking. If this is one of the last locations to create affordable housing, it seems foolish to waste space on parking cars there when there is a message and a theme from the city to use mass transit, etc. Even if there is some sense of responsibility from the city to offer the parking while not encouraging car use into town, I wonder if it's not too late for council to consider a smaller ratio of spaces to units. If nothing else, it would seem more responsible of the city and planners to limit parking to surface spots. It is wonderful there is a desire and a financial ability for the city to create the housing itself but I don't think the city should create the future burden to the city or to the owners of maintaining a parking structure regardless of it being above or below grade.

1 car/unit and pay or credit for no car. Encourage RFTA with stop in AABC

Now is the time to add more to this project in light of the moratorium and sale of the Centennial.

Need to expand this project

No development in front of Deer Hill

Please don't invade the undeveloped space in front of Deer Hill. This is an important visual amenity. Use it for recreational facilities, not for buildings or parking

Project needs to be somewhere else

The location is terrible. Located at the take off end of the runway, the noise and fumes are terrible. To build a 400 +/- parking garage and introduce another 400 +/- cars to the worst possible place on HWY 82 is insane. The infrastructure at the ABC can't handle the additional cars and the possible 700 to 1,000 new residents. Now that it appears that CDOT is going to build an new bridge over Castle Creek going across the Marolt open space, a better location would be on the far south edge of the property. Roger Marolt was not wrong when he wrote in a recent column that the Marolt property was a much better location. Scale this project way down and commit to build something larger and more convenient closer to town.