We were encouraged this week to hear from both Steamboat Springs City Council members and representatives of affordable housing developer Brynn Grey that their March 20 meeting, the first in 182 days, was both positive and productive. We say that because the clock is ticking on the goals laid out by the Community Housing Steering Committee in December 2016.

It was Dec. 15, 2016, when steering committee chairman Dan Pirrallo pointed out to the last City Council that projections are for Routt County’s population to grow from 23,000 to 35,000 by 2030.

Pirrallo reported that the housing task force concluded the broader community needed to deliver on the promise of almost 700 new housing units plus 250 beds for seasonal workers through the coming four years just to meet the existing housing supply gap. And that would not necessarily address the housing needs of Routt County in 2020, 2025 or years further in the future.

Read more at Steamboat Today.