EDITORIAL: Deja vu all over again
Editor’s note: Editorial Board members Bob Weiss recused himself from the discussion on this issue.
Last week’s developments in the ongoing impasse between the Steamboat Springs City Council and Brynn Grey Partners – the real estate developer that wants to build some 450 new homes west of Steamboat and have them annexed into the city – brought an eerie sense of deja vu.
Near the end of a lengthy city council work session July 18, Brynn Grey CEO David O’Neil said he doesn’t feel the need for a community vote on the proposed annexation.
“I’m not feeling it in terms of the need for a community vote on this,” O’Neil told council members, adding that city process spells out the process for annexations without a public vote.
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