Lyons will sponsor events to commemorate the 2013 Flood

By Hollie Rogin, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review

tion 123 in 2022. Prop 123 dedicates State income tax revenue to fund affordable housing. A Housing Needs Assessment is a prerequisite to unlocking that funding.

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LYONS – If you haven’t already, you’ll soon be see ing a schedule of townsponsored events (see page 11 in this Redstone for a full schedule) commemorating the tenth anniversary of the 2013 flood.

Trustee Tanya Daty has worked tirelessly alongside town staff and volunteers to cre ate a weekend of events that pays homage to our community and to our recovery part ners. A decade is a long time, and yet the flood can still seem like just yesterday. This kind of trauma can have a very long tail.

The weekend of September 10 may be quite difficult for some; for others it may be purely celebratory. And many will find themselves vacillating somewhere in between. Wherever you may be on this spectrum, I hope you’ll make some time to be with your community as we continue to care for and celebrate each other.

And we certainly do have a lot to celebrate in Lyons. Our disaster recovery is complete, and we can turn our energies to enjoying – instead of rebuilding – our town. We can now face forward and plan for the future we want to see.

To that end, you may have noticed the Town of Lyons Housing Futures posters, tables, social media posts and fliers. The Housing Futures project is a Housing Needs

Assessment study funded by a grant from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) and facilitated by Bohannon Huston, a planning firm that has helped many communities create similar plans.

Lyons Housing Futures is a deep dive into discovering not only what our needs are, but also where our community would like to see different housing types. You may recall that Colorado voters passed Proposi-

As we learned during the Comprehensive Plan process, more input from our community helps us make better decisions. To that end, please make your thoughts known at https://lyonshousingfuture.com. This dedicated website offers background information, potential housing strategies, planning considerations, and an interactive map of Lyons, where you can anonymously post your ideas of where more housing could go, what types of housing you would like to see, and where more housing should not go. You can also upvote or downvote others’ ideas.

I hope everyone has an enjoyable endof-summer experience and a great start to the new school year.

Hollie Rogin was sworn in as Mayor of Lyons on April 18, 2022. Before that she was elected to serve on the Board of Trustees for the term of 2020 to 2022. While serving as a Trustee, she was the Board liaison to the Economic Vitality Commission and the Historic Preservation Commission.