Fully 100 respondents picked “Shipping Container Home” as their second-best choice, making that option the most popular one, as a ‘second choice’….
Author: Bill Hudson
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Six
Here’s the Town zoning map. We’ll look more closely at some details in a moment, but what we can see in the overall map is a dotted line outlining the Town limits…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Five
The Town Planning Commission, this week, recommended that the Pagosa Springs Inn & Suites be permitted to convert all of its motel rooms into long-term rental units…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Four
Can we dig ourselves out of this hole? Or are we looking at a ‘black hole’ that’s going to suck in everything within its gravitational field?…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Three
According to national vacation rental management company Vacasa, the people most likely to convert single-family homes into vacation rentals are between the ages of 20 and 50…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Two
As we see, the financial stress was not evenly distributed among the various income levels…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part One
“WHEREAS, Town Council hereby finds that the use of residential property as a short-term vacation rental impacts the Town and its residents in various ways…”
EDITORIAL: Re-Imagining the Constitution
“We have found our way back to those precious founding documents. And in those documents we find all that we need to operate as a Constitutional county…”
EDITORIAL: Turning Off Arizona’s Water Tap?
Beginning next year, certain Arizona farmers will be cut off from much of the water they’ve been extracting from the Colorado River for decades…
Pagosa Peak Charter School Adopts ‘Masks Optional’ Policy
Three parents testified at the PPOS board meeting, requesting that all staff and students be required to wear masks indoors…
EDITORIAL: Strange Tales from Pitkin County, Colorado
“In fact, 66% of all positive COVID-19 cases among residents in Pitkin County… have been so-called ‘breakthrough’ cases, or those involving fully vaccinated residents…”
EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy… and Housing… Part Five
Not too far behind — in fact, at number 19 in the Vacasa list — is Pagosa Springs, Colorado, where the median home price (Vacasa claims) is $361,000…
EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy… and Housing… Part Four
Pagosa Springs High School students are now starting their fourth year of learning the construction business, and, last May, built the chicken coops shown above for their annual fundraising auction…
EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy… and Housing… Part Three
As I see it, the arguments coming from the opponents of mask-wearing fell into three general categories…
Pagosa Springs ‘Urban Renewal Authority’ to Host Listening Sessions This Week
Consultants from Short Elliott Hendrickson (SEH), a Durango-based planning and design firm, will help guide the listening sessions…
EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy… and Housing… Part Two
The audience members who came to testify apparently arrived with the assumption… that the School District would be requiring masks?
EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy… and Housing… Part One
The next question asked about masking intentions, for the start of the 2021-22 school year. Are parents planning to send their kids to school with masks? 62% said ‘No’…
EDITORIAL: A Flubbed Town Council Hand-off on Short-Term Rentals, Part Four
“But other than that, I want to move on to the other items about short-term rentals, so we can give staff some more guidance…”
EDITORIAL: A Flubbed Town Council Hand-off on Short-Term Rentals, Part Three
“Are we ready to get rid of the Lodgers Tax and funding for external marketing? And do we want to put an excise tax on short-term rentals?…”
