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Samantha (special events permit coordinator) and representatives from the Goldberg event team described a multi‑modal ingress and egress plan based on off‑site parking with buses and shuttles, staged shuttle loading and a focus on controlling egress because most crowding occurs when the event ends. “Ingress is not as important as the egress because everybody leaves all at the same time,” Samantha told the board.

Staff said organizers plan to use off‑site lots (Brush Creek and Snowmass were discussed) with shuttles returning to a managed shuttle staging area; shuttle vehicles would be held in a closed loop and managed so they do not block public streets. The organizers and county staff are also discussing using bicycles as a transit mode; staff will require a pre‑registration process to estimate demand and plan bike parking, lighting and mounted bicycle safety measures. The sheriff’s office and Aspen Ambulance District (referred to during the meeting as “Aspen Amby”) have been engaged in planning and will help define safety, traffic and medical response protocols.

Parking for event staff and potential paid spectator vehicle parking remained undecided; staff said the county is awaiting a new lot manager contractor expected to begin work in April and will coordinate with that contractor on Buttermilk lot usage. Organizers and staff said they continue to refine the plan to avoid conflicts with other summer events, notably a concurrent music festival, and that they will commission a sound study to verify expected noise dispersion.

The county’s special‑events permitting checklist remains in progress. Meeting questions flagged several outstanding technical items, including whether an FAA review will be required for temporary event infrastructure and the need to finalize food‑service, restroom and incident‑management plans. Staff said the organizers and county will continue monthly coordination meetings and that staff are prepared to return to the board with a detailed layout and operational plan closer to the event date if the commissioners want another briefing.

Why it matters: the concert will draw large temporary crowds to a public recreation area; successful staging affects public safety, neighborhood impacts, and normal recreational uses of Buttermilk and nearby lots.

What’s next: staff will continue permitting work, coordinate with the incoming lot management contractor, conduct a sound study, refine shuttle and bike‑parking logistics, address any FAA requirements and update the BOCC in a later briefing (staff suggested June). Quotes in this article come from the March 4 joint meeting transcript.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","BOCC Work Session (1st and 3rd Tuesdays) - 03/04/2025","oneSentenceSummary","Pitkin County staff and event organizers told commissioners March 4 they are coordinating shuttles, staged off‑site parking, bike parking and public‑safety plans for a planned Buttermilk concert; the special‑events permit review is ongoing and several technical items remain under review.","taxTitle","Pitkin County, Colorado","taxId",27807,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6652757,"Pitkin County 2023 greenhouse‑gas inventory shows 22% rise from 2019; coal‑basin methane, transport and waste key drivers",2721,2434000,5155000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2489622-dff9a81a313d86acb6ac14c20d2a4e0e&start=2434&end=5155","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2489622-dff9a81a313d86acb6ac14c20d2a4e0e/thumbnail_2434000.jpg","/articles/6652757/Pitkin-County/Colorado/Pitkin-County-2023-greenhousegas-inventory-shows-22-rise-from-2019-coalbasin-methane-transport-and-waste-key-drivers","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6652757-f9cfee67ac08e64134f9095919c71136/orig.mp4?Expires=1770991342&Signature=TurQU8nCxyB4n-m-NZvfdBmBe4zxAP67WkiopgeJH6ZYRSerrBgwjkgBU0gPeoOVkLV0nEGHPQ2wQJ-S1wMzHbfFVjXO5So6EsmN8OL9fnfhk5Ofr5R54TQZH7O1fEHYJFW7fjxSEOSyX6QNaQIoyk4SfVb1NVWks0yj7sKDhvzI5EKrfxlFGDzkOjwsPzMN40VRyK~PpaVo-8LytyL-dKXH9jgsBnnalyyXvvb5irYFsZVkdam~Q0vplMQMr9oJQEA4HJYKJiR4vUz9lwPkeJX88p7~Gpr~de7nsQ9DwF7Qf-G7G4aMhUOkrlUfW3s1~8CrSGr4fU5on6wxOpG0Ig__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Pitkin County staff presented a newly completed regional greenhouse‑gas inventory March 4 that estimates total regional emissions rose 22% compared with 2019, an increase staff said is partly attributable to newly available data sources and to higher transportation and waste emissions.

“Total emissions increased by 22% from 2019,” Michael Port, Pitkin County climate action analyst, told commissioners and municipal partners. Port said the report incorporates improved datasets — notably a new vehicle‑miles‑traveled (VMT) dataset and recent methane measurements from the Coal Basin — and therefore establishes what staff described as a stronger baseline for future tracking.

Key findings summarized by Port included a 2% reduction in building emissions driven by cleaner electricity provided by regional utilities, a roughly 6% increase in vehicle emissions (on an apples‑to‑apples comparison with the new VMT dataset), a 14% increase in solid‑waste emissions, and a 22% increase in aviation emissions for the region. Port said methane seepage measurements from Coal Basin — a new data source not included in the 2019 inventory — accounted for about 9% of total regional emissions in 2023.

Port cautioned that methodological changes affect year‑to‑year comparisons. Commissioners pressed the team on how much of the 22% rise is methodological versus real; Port said that if Coal Basin data were excluded but the improved transportation data retained, the increase from 2019 to 2023 would be roughly 5–6%. “This adjusts for, you know, if we eliminated coal basin... we still saw a 5% increase in emissions from 2019 to 2023,” Port said.

The presentation emphasized that cleaner grid electricity is continuing to reduce building‑sector emissions and that planned utility decarbonization and recent local energy‑code updates should drive further reductions. However, staff warned that as building emissions decline, transportation and waste will account for a larger share of total emissions and will be harder to reduce because they are dependent on regional and multi‑jurisdictional factors.

Port and Deputy County Manager Kara Silvernagle described this inventory as the county’s new baseline for post‑COVID, post‑data‑improvement tracking and said the next steps include public release of the report, outreach to municipalities and stakeholders, and a forthcoming county climate action plan and a county operations GHG inventory for staff emissions. Port noted the county obtained DOLA grant funding to support staff work and said the county brought production in‑house after previously relying on external consultants.

Why it matters: the inventory is the county’s primary tool for tracking progress toward its long‑term reduction goals; it signals a shifting challenge as building emissions fall and more complex sources (transportation, waste, methane) become a larger share of the total.

What’s next: staff will release the report publicly, present to relevant advisory boards including the airport board, publish outreach materials, and return with a county operations inventory and a climate action plan later in March. Quotes in this article come from the March 4 presentation by Pitkin County staff as recorded in the meeting transcript.","Pitkin County’s new regional greenhouse‑gas inventory for 2023 shows total emissions rose about 22% relative to 2019, county staff reported March 4, a change officials attributed in part to newly available data (notably methane measurements from Coal Basin) and to increases in transportation and waste‑sector activity.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6652762,"Pitkin County OKs self-funded restoration of historic Glacier House, asks staff to study adding affordable unit",1809,561000,2370000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2489622-dff9a81a313d86acb6ac14c20d2a4e0e&start=561&end=2370","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2489622-dff9a81a313d86acb6ac14c20d2a4e0e/thumbnail_561000.jpg","/articles/6652762/Pitkin-County/Colorado/Pitkin-County-OKs-self-funded-restoration-of-historic-Glacier-House-asks-staff-to-study-adding-affordable-unit","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6652762-9f6f9297875190717f112270ff74b4be/orig.mp4?Expires=1770991342&Signature=T6DvD6beDHY~ddSBljW37UuwNbvCXlf47Ia3ohJbWJFnzrEMpBMmBfocTZQnhjiqQgOsxKcjTElIw2wfGRv3g2XQylxOZkjlneQZcRHClmv69wau3HbwnELvTl-TwI98cGwnz0WN32ZqHg7rpoF~CJn~gvwXl4Iuq3aWI1macMwR4kH5QpmhRqMNVR7NTXf1jkA~mVM1NzGZAAFBRq~Obk5QTMbyxudQu9oRfU-iotW47wYV-cgixtX5cPKCQfKWE2xOarrt~zKmF1jtA4aQpi~FW3c5FwexaKtX4tSt2nHmtuYd697cYFaBkn7Wrwo7g9UXDE-I9toHyaOSCHqrUQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Pitkin County commissioners and the Open Space and Trails (OST) board gave consensus March 4 for the county to move forward with a full, self-funded restoration of the historic Glacier House on Hooksboro Road, and asked staff to study adding an affordable housing unit to a proposed new non‑historic barn on the property.

The action follows OST staff saying the county budgeted money for the restoration in 2025 after a second application for a state historic grant was unsuccessful. “We applied for the second time for the State Historic Grant, and we did not get that,” said Gary Tenenbaum, Open Space and Trails director. Tenenbaum and staff argued the house is deteriorating and should be stabilized and restored before construction costs rise further.

The county acquired the Glacier property with help from Eagle County in the mid‑2010s and holds conservation easements on both parcels. Paul Fulsinger, the county’s conservation easement and agriculture manager, said the easements limit residential square footage but that the county had preserved existing square footage and reserved about 2,000 square feet of additional residential allowance for future use.

OST staff described a restoration plan that would remove poor‑foundation later additions and replace them with higher‑quality construction, consolidate square footage, and add a small auxiliary room intended to serve as a lock‑off bedroom for seasonal staff. “The house is starting to fall down,” Tenenbaum told the boards, arguing that doing the full restoration now is more efficient than continuing to seek uncertain grant money.

In addition to the main restoration, staff proposed replacing a deteriorating non‑historic metal garage with a new barn‑style workshop (referred to in the meeting as a “barndominium”) that could include an affordable housing unit. Staff sought but did not ask for immediate approval to build that unit; rather, commissioners and the OST board were asked to authorize further study of feasibility and configuration, including utility (well and septic) and land‑use questions because the property falls under Eagle County’s land‑use code.

OST board members and commissioners voiced support for the restoration and the concept of exploring an affordable unit. Howie, speaking for the OST board, summarized the board’s direction: the board had consensus to self‑fund the Glacier House renovation including the proposed assembly room addition and to pursue further study of an affordable housing unit in a new barn structure. Commissioners raised implementation questions (foundations, sequencing, relationship to the barn restoration) and asked staff to return with permit‑level drawings, cost estimates and a recommended configuration for the potential living unit.

Estimated costs discussed on March 4 placed the county’s share of the immediate renovation phase near $1.3 million, with Eagle County expected to contribute at least $350,000; staff reported a total project cost in the neighborhood of $1.65 million. Staff said the restoration and barn studies will be brought back for appropriation and formal budget approval at a later date.

Why it matters: the Glacier property combines historic structures, active agricultural leases and public trail access. Staff said restoring the house would preserve historic fabric while providing housing for seasonal agricultural workers and staff who manage the leased operations, improving long‑term stewardship of the property.

What’s next: staff will complete permit‑level drawings, pursue remaining grant opportunities for ancillary historic structures (notably the historic barn), and return with a recommendation and budget request for the restoration and a separate recommendation regarding configuration, size and cost for an affordable housing unit attached to a new barn structure.

Quotes in this article come from speakers at the March 4 joint OST board / Pitkin County BOCC work session, as recorded in the meeting transcript.","Pitkin County Open Space and Trails staff received consensus from the Open Space board and county commissioners to proceed with a fully county-funded restoration of the historic Glacier House after a second state grant application failed, and to explore adding an affordable housing unit in a new non‑historic barn structure.","actionData","errors"]

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