S T E A M B O AT
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AUGUST 12, 2009
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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Vol. 21, No. 192
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My fair chicken
Free show Thursday Blues guitarist Susan Tedeschi headlines summer concert at ski area base Page 3
SPORTS
Tourney Thursday Page 27
Corrections The Boys & Girls Club of Steamboat Springs is not licensed by the state of Colorado. It is a youth development organization. The story “Afterschool programs open,” on page 6 of Tuesday’s Steamboat Today, incorrectly characterized the program. The name of Pet Kare Clinic veterinarian Susan Colfer was misspelled in “Kennel cough is spreading locally,” a story on page 4 of Tuesday’s Steamboat Today.
700 kicks in property tax Council members weigh benefit of housing against development’s costs Brandon Gee
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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS
Steamboat 700 developers agreed Tuesday to raise an additional $50,000 a year in property taxes, avoiding what appeared to be a Steamboat Springs City Council headed for deadlock.
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Cassandra Schmid, right, who will be a freshman at Soroco High School, dropped off her chicken Tuesday at the Routt County Fairgrounds in Hayden. For story, see page 4.
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Tuesday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 2-6-8-13-21 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
The concession came at the end of a hearing to discuss a model developed to forecast the development’s fiscal impact on the city’s operating budget at different stages and up to the point when the proposed development is complete. Steamboat 700 is a proposed masterplanned community of about 2,000 homes on about 500
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Sunshine. High of 83.
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acres. It is west of Steamboat and seeking annexation into city limits. The fiscal impact model predicted that the development would cost the city about $53,000 a year once fully built out. The debate at Tuesday’s meeting split the council in two — those who thought the cost was unacceptable and that
a new revenue source should be generated, and those who felt the small deficit was outweighed by the benefits of the development, especially affordable housing. “This allows our children’s children a chance to actually live here,” resident Curtis See Council, page 16
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