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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, April 15-18, 2017 The Park Record A-14 Continued From A-11 Mountain Town News Please Join us 4/16 Easter Brunch! 5/14 Mothers Day! ceptable,” Lashbrook said. The Trump administration has said it wants to enhance regional routes, as opposed to the long-distance routes, but has offered no specific proposals. Truckee, Lashbrook said, has long been interested in improved passenger service between the Bay Area and Reno, Thank you for a great winter! We will be closed 4/17 – 5/11 FREE Parking • 1782 Prospector Ave 435.658.0958 • Goodkarmarestaurants.com LOCATION views! LOCATION views! LOCATION!!! views! 4 beds -- 6 baths 4 beds 6 baths -- @4,500 @4,500 sqft Make this Lower Deer Valley home your own! Motivated Seller Single Family Now reduced to $1,449,000 VALENTINA UDABE Realtor 435.901.1597 valentina@sterlingparkcity.com 2439 Nansen Ct NICK FUCA Realtor 435.901.2638 NickFuca@sterlingparkcity.com Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed REAL... REAL... REAL... LIFE People Nevada, located 30 miles down-valley from Truckee, as an alternative to the congestion commonly found on Interstate 80, especially during the snowy winter months. “Eliminating the only passenger rail service serving our region without exploring regional options that could replace it is simply ill advised,” he said. In Montana, Whitefish last year accounted for 54,000 riders of the 123,600 passengers who got off an Amtrak in Montana last year, noted the Whitefish Pilot. Trump’s budget says longdistance routes “incur the vast majority of Amtrak’s operating losses.” The budget proposes to cut $2.4 billion in Amtrak funding. Amtrak last year operated at a net loss of $227 million. It’s a go for new ski area in the Cariboo Mountains VALEMOUNT, B.C. — Colorado has Vail, but British Columbia is getting a Valemount Glacier Destination in December 2018. The resort is to be on the western flanks of the Continental Divide, about an hour and a half from Jasper and five hours from Banff. The bed base is to be relatively modest, 2,000 beds. The lift capacity is to be 9,500 per hour, compared to almost 70,000 an hour at Whistler Blackcomb. Valemount will have the most top-to-bottom vertical terrain in North America, 2,090 meters (6,856 feet), moving ahead of Revelstoke Mountain Resort’s 1,713 meters. It will be third in the world, behind Zermatt, Switzerland, and Chamonix Aiguille du Midi, France. Ski teacher gets half-loaf in war with Aspen Skiing ASPEN, Colo. — Former ski instructor Lee Mulcahy, who is campaigning to be mayor of Aspen, has the reputation of being a pebble in a shoe or, as he prefers, a David trying to get the better of Goliath. Goliath, in his eyes, is the Aspen Skiing Co., which has declared him persona non grata in company offices or any of the four ski areas it operates since he was fired as an instructor seven years ago. Company representatives said he was dismissed because of poor work. He asserted it was because he led an effort to unionize ski instructors. Local district court judge Chris Seldin has issued a ruling that draws flesh from both parties. The company can rightfully refuse him the right to darken the doorways of its hotels, restaurants and other accommodations, and it can even refuse to sell him lift tickets. But refuse him access to the ski slopes that the company leases from the U.S. government? No, said Seldin, that goes too far. Mulcahy’s access to the slopes subject to “reasonable time, place and manner limitations” that are to be defined later. Mulcahy says he’s been ostracized because of the ski company’s power, forced to get by as a substitute teacher and taxi driver. Even the town government won’t hire him to be a janitor, he told the Aspen Daily News. Anger, anguish and answers to affordable housing woes JACKSON, Wyo. — Everywhere in the ski towns, the mismatch between the demand and supply for cheaper housing remains a source of anguish, sometimes anger, and even more rarely, answers. One answer may be found in a law being considered by the Jackson Town Council. It would govern apartment complexes with 20 or more rental units designed to cater to the lower-income renters by relieving the developer of affordable housing requirements. The exemption would apply to those with smaller units ranging between 550-square-foot studio apartments and 1,350-squarefoot three bedroom apartments, reported the Jackson Hole News&Guide. The thinking is that the regulations might encourage developers to build apartment complexes with units affordable to those in the local service industry instead of allocating the land to building relatively giant houses, often called McMansions, that local residents working in the local economy almost assuredly cannot afford. A new report cited by the News&Guide concludes that people will move to Jackson whether there is housing available — or not. Both population growth and job growth, especially for seasonal workers, has far outpaced residential and commercial development. Jim Stanford, a town councilor who used to be a reporter for the News&Guide, said he remains concerned about affordability over the long haul. What used to be affordable housing has been converted into housing that is no longer affordable, he noted. “It’s not as simple as just increasing supply. That’s not the way it works in Jackson.” In Crested Butte, it’s the same story. Not that many years ago, the sort of dilapidated housing left over from Crested Butte’s mining era was relatively cheap—renting for a few hundred bucks a month or less, said Mark Reaman, editor of the Crested Butte News. But those shacks have been gussied up to the point that local service workers cannot afford them. Will government now step in with more deed-restricted housing? The newspaper says local officials in Crested Butte and other jurisdictions appear poised to seek voter approval for new taxes on lodging or property to raise $80 million. The money would deliver 400 new “affordable” units all over Gunnison County by 2020. A public official said the private sector can be expected to deliver another 500 units. And in the Aspen-dominated Roaring Fork Valley, two men with a lively interest in the affordable housing problem are trying to persuade local governments from Aspen to Glenwood Springs of the value for a taxpayer-funded regional housing authority. Bill Lamont, a former planning director in both Denver and Boulder, and attorney Dave Myler tell the Aspen Daily News that the housing authority could generate enough money to significantly address the valley’s long-standing housing problem. They cite just one other comparable multi-jurisdiction authority in Colorado: Summit County. Stories Subscribe today Contact our circulation office: 435.649.9014 circulation@ParkRecord.com MASERATI OF SALT LAKE CITY |