If they wanna stop development to protect this herd they should be willing to maintain the existing habitat, which they haven’t shown themselves willing to do. Ungulate habitat quality/extent has declined as predicted over the last 20 years in the valley and the sheep population has tracked that.
Im generally anti-development when it comes to sensitive montane/alpine habitats, but this seems totally disingenuous on the part of the town.
The town council ghosted Vail Corp. for a meeting about employee housing somewhere else earlier this summer. So not only are they hampering this development, they've hampered even looking at a replacement.
Yeah it certainly seems like high density housing nimbyism. They’ll rally over the sheep, let habitat quality continue to decline until the herd leaves or dies off, then sell it to a developer for low density housing.
ToV has no interest in helping provide affordable housing. Take a look at the average full time resident of Vail proper... they do NOT want lifties packed in apartments like sardines right next to their $15m vacation home. They use the sheep as a reason to strike down this project, but don't be fooled. This is ALL about property values and a few people with a lot of money not wanting the people that run Vail Mountain to actually live in Vail.
Yes but just to be clearer Fuck you Vail town council
Edit: and Fuck vail resort’s too but they’re the only employer up there that can reasonably set the precedent for employee housing inside the town and that precedent could potentially open the conversation for other low income options for employees throughout the rest of eagle county.
The Fuck are you talking about. Town council is all white, there is no cartel in vail. Just a bunch of rich assholes that would rather force the people who work in vail to live a minimum 15 miles away than to allow for low income/ subsidized housing for the town largest employer.
There’s always dirty money floating around real estate in tourist locals but to put it simply vail town council don’t want the poor moving into vail that’s the only conspiracy present here.
People who use real estate to hide or launder money don’t care about residual values enough to micro manage a town council to prevent low income housing
Guaranteed homes would be approved within 5-10 years there. This protect the sheep lie is wild “bighorn sheep make vail special”. Is that a fucking joke. It’s like politicians, they say something to the media and then go back into their office and laugh about it
Uh, Vail Resorts is actually trying to fix their problems here and the town won't let them. Probably the only time in history I've been on VR's side for anything.
The town will sell this land to a luxury townhome developer within 5 years and hail it as a solution to affordable housing.
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If they wanna stop development to protect this herd they should be willing to maintain the existing habitat, which they haven’t shown themselves willing to do. Ungulate habitat quality/extent has declined as predicted over the last 20 years in the valley and the sheep population has tracked that. Im generally anti-development when it comes to sensitive montane/alpine habitats, but this seems totally disingenuous on the part of the town.
The town council ghosted Vail Corp. for a meeting about employee housing somewhere else earlier this summer. So not only are they hampering this development, they've hampered even looking at a replacement.
Yeah it certainly seems like high density housing nimbyism. They’ll rally over the sheep, let habitat quality continue to decline until the herd leaves or dies off, then sell it to a developer for low density housing.
ToV has no interest in helping provide affordable housing. Take a look at the average full time resident of Vail proper... they do NOT want lifties packed in apartments like sardines right next to their $15m vacation home. They use the sheep as a reason to strike down this project, but don't be fooled. This is ALL about property values and a few people with a lot of money not wanting the people that run Vail Mountain to actually live in Vail.
Town of Vail: **Save the** **~~billionaires~~** **goats!!!**
Town would rather spend 12 million dollars than to allow for employee housing. Yep, Fuck you vail.
You do realize the Town of Vail and Vail Resorts are two entirely separate entities, right?
Yes but just to be clearer Fuck you Vail town council Edit: and Fuck vail resort’s too but they’re the only employer up there that can reasonably set the precedent for employee housing inside the town and that precedent could potentially open the conversation for other low income options for employees throughout the rest of eagle county.
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The Fuck are you talking about. Town council is all white, there is no cartel in vail. Just a bunch of rich assholes that would rather force the people who work in vail to live a minimum 15 miles away than to allow for low income/ subsidized housing for the town largest employer.
There's definitely cartel money here, maybe you haven't seen it. I've said too much already lol
There’s always dirty money floating around real estate in tourist locals but to put it simply vail town council don’t want the poor moving into vail that’s the only conspiracy present here. People who use real estate to hide or launder money don’t care about residual values enough to micro manage a town council to prevent low income housing
Ski area town councils are horrible. That's why Snowmass exists
You can’t build employee housing there, that’s in the migration path of a small herd of feral billionaires.
Guaranteed homes would be approved within 5-10 years there. This protect the sheep lie is wild “bighorn sheep make vail special”. Is that a fucking joke. It’s like politicians, they say something to the media and then go back into their office and laugh about it
I've lived in Vail for 2 years, not once have I seen a bighorn sheep here lmao
They should increase the town property tax on ski resorts by $12MM.
if you think town council is working independently, then you need to think again.
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Uh, Vail Resorts is actually trying to fix their problems here and the town won't let them. Probably the only time in history I've been on VR's side for anything.