GET ME REWRITE: 24 years later, Vail Colorado still determined to keep out the riffraff

 

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New York Times, 9/5/1999

Nearly 24 years later

Adventure Journal, 10/26/2022

Sheep, not people!

Standing in their way is the town of Vail itself, which filed a petition in Eagle County District Court on Friday to invoke its eminent domain powers to seize the Booth Heights site and hold it as open space, Vail Daily first reported. 

“It’s unfortunate we’ve come to this place,” says Vail Mayor Kim Langmaid of the eminent domain petition. 

Vail, Langmaid says, is committed to work force housing and has several public-private partnerships to provide that housing currently in the works. But developing the Booth Heights property would threaten the area’s bighorn sheep, who’d be at risk of starvation without that open space, she says. 

When the town’s last-ditch effort to buy the property for $12 million was rejected by Vail Resorts in early October, Langmaid said they had no choice but to move ahead with eminent domain.