S T E A M B O AT
TODAY
FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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Vol. 21, No. 224
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H AY D E N
YVRA work planned
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N E W S PA P E R
Travis Pastrana signs autographs
Commissioners, council hear about airport needs, scheduled improvements Page 3
S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S
Accident closes pass Semitrailer tips over on Rabbit Ears, shuts down road for about an hour Page 14
SPORTS
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Subaru RallyTeam USA Driver Travis Pastrana chats with, from left, Tim Aigner, Gabe Aigner, Frank Becker and Lauri Aigner during a signing session Thursday evening at Cook Chevrolet/Jeep/Subaru. Pastrana, a supercross champion and X Games gold medalist, is in town with Rally Colorado 2009.
Sailors play today Page 35
Correction The Sailors Golf Shootout benefit tournament starts at noon Monday. The time was incorrect in a sports brief on page 21 of Thursday’s Steamboat Today.
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Planning supports 700 Commission sends annexation on to Sept. 29 date with City Council Tom Ross
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Planning Commissioner Karen Dixon hailed the Steamboat 700 proposal Thursday night as a “framework for concentrated, dense, smart growth” as she made the successful
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motion clearing a path for the creation of more than 2,000 new homes just outside the city’s western boundary. The Steamboat Springs Planning Commission voted, 42, to recommend approval of the annexation ordinance for the long-debated development. Steamboat 700 now moves on
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to a first reading of an ordinance before Steamboat Springs City Council on Sept. 29, with a second and final reading scheduled for Oct. 13. Commissioner Jason Lacy seconded Dixon’s motion. The dissenters were Vice Chairman Richard Levy and Cedar Beauregard, with commis-
sion chairwoman Kathi Meyer absent. Levy said he thinks the fiscal neutrality promised to residents within the existing city limits is far from certain and the original West of Steamboat Springs Area Plan never anticiSee Planning, page 14
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