Dylan Anderson

Funding from city's accommodation tax could be used to build 32 miles of trails and improve three trailheads along U.S. Highway 40. The U.S. Forest Service asked the Steamboat Springs City Council for more than $1.6 million in accommodations tax dollars on Tuesday that would be used to build 32 miles of trails and improve three trailheads on Rabbit Ears Pass.The trails are part of the now approved Mad Rabbit Trails Project that has been in the works since 2018. The plan will build or designate 4

Steamboat Springs Bob Adams Airport will use $492,000 from the city’s general fund in 2024 to support operations, up from $174,000 in 2020. Sidestepping a nearly half-million-dollar operating deficit at Steamboat Springs Bob Adams Airport in 2024, City Council signaled it would renew a ground lease for one of the oldest hangars on the field Tuesday — a move that mirrors a decision from a year ago that lost the city grant funding. The city has the option to take ownership of the hangar, called C

Commuter line would benefit from infrastructure upgrades to support regional rail to Denver, but local operations likely need local funding. Paying for the operations of a commuter rail line operating within the Yampa Valley is likely going to fall on local sources, Steamboat Springs City Council member Michael Buccino, who sits on the Mountain Rail Coalition, said last week. A service development plan outlining the first estimates of what it would cost to start Mountain Rail Service between Cra

Delay is expected to allow a better understanding on the feasibility of using geothermal as part of large snowmelt system. It will be at least another six months before Steamboat Springs City Council chooses the design concept for a new Gondola Transit Center, as they opted on Tuesday to wait for more information about the feasibility of using geothermal as part of the project. Geothermal is important to the redesigned GTC because is a key part of providing heat to a vast snowmelt system — roug

Steamboat Springs City Council agreed to move forward with an in-depth outreach process on Tuesday that hopes to help the community find solutions to divisive issues.The earliest Steamboat voters will consider a new plan for the Brown Ranch would be November of 2026, as the city works through an extensive outreach process that hopes to find solutions to the various issues with the project over the next 10 to 14 months. Steamboat Springs City Council agreed to move forward with this outreach proc

Value of project shared by developers is more than double the valuation of all construction in Steamboat Springs in 2023, but it won’t contribute to local housing.One of the last empty lots adjacent to Steamboat Resort’s base area will be filled with a part hotel, part condo project that developers boast is worth $500 million — a value that is more than double the valuation of all construction in Steamboat Springs in 2023. The project, called The Stockman, will include 41 hotel rooms and 204 con

Revenue will help upgrade stations, fire engines as district sees significant growth on horizon.New construction within the bounds of the Oak Creek Fire Protection District will start paying an additional impact fee next year, an effort that hopes to fund upgrades to aging fires stations and apparatus.Each new housing unit will pay a flat rate of $5,695 to the district, while new commercial buildings will pay nearly $10,500 per 1,000 square feet of space. The fee, which starts Jan. 1, will only

Colorado’s legislative session starts on Wednesday, but the session’s biggest bills likely won’t surface until the second or third week in April. Affordability has been a key aspect of messaging from Colorado Democrats for the last few years, but with the state’s coffers no longer flush with cash, House Speaker Julie McCluskie said advancing bills with a price tag will be challenging when the legislative session starts on Wednesday. In September, the state’s projected deficit was estimated at $1

As explained, the bill would use $50 million to help promote more developments of affordable homes that are for sale. A bill that will be introduced at the start of Colorado’s Legislative session on Wednesday intends to use $50 million in existing state funding for affordable home ownership-focused projects, as lawmakers in Denver balance a desire to address affordability and what is currently estimated to be a $750 million budget crunch. Sen. Dylan Roberts, who represents Senate District 8, whi

Lukens raised more than $200,000 in the last cycle, the second most of any candidate running for the Colorado Legislature in 2024. Two years ago, Steamboat Springs’ Meghan Lukens got a new job, and that job as a Colorado House Representative started with a lot of learning. “When you are first elected, you just are learning so much,” Lukens said in an interview for an upcoming local news podcast. “The procedures of the building… the public ticks of the building, you’re learning the policy before