Friday, March 09, 2007
Royal Gorge Conceptual Plan
Update, March 11th, 5pm: See the text overview of the March 8th presentation on the SLPOA website.
Royal Gorge presented an overview of their development plans (legend) last night at Ice Lakes Lodge. 950 additional residences and condos and an unknown additional number of hotel rooms are proposed as part of four separate "Camps" with the majority of the development located along to Soda Springs Road adjacent to the USFS parcel just up the street from Ice Lakes Lodge.
The project is centered around a "Conservation" theme, and includes three new chairlifts which connect the Serene Lakes area (Ski Camp) to Sugar Bowl and provide for downhill skiing along the Razorback ridge from Crowe's Nest to Lola's Lookout. They also plan to establish a land trust to protect open space along with a community center in the new Summit Station located adjacent to Van Norden meadow (part of the older Van Norden project already submitted to the county). Other elements include horseback riding, fishing camps, man-made lakes, and a commitment to bring broadband to the Summit.
Please send us your feedback on this proposal. What do you like about the plan? What are your biggest concerns? You can email us your responses, or fill out our survey.
Royal Gorge promises to update their website with a copy of the presentation and electronic versions of all the maps. They also plan to have a feedback form on their website shortly.
Royal Gorge presented an overview of their development plans (legend) last night at Ice Lakes Lodge. 950 additional residences and condos and an unknown additional number of hotel rooms are proposed as part of four separate "Camps" with the majority of the development located along to Soda Springs Road adjacent to the USFS parcel just up the street from Ice Lakes Lodge.
The project is centered around a "Conservation" theme, and includes three new chairlifts which connect the Serene Lakes area (Ski Camp) to Sugar Bowl and provide for downhill skiing along the Razorback ridge from Crowe's Nest to Lola's Lookout. They also plan to establish a land trust to protect open space along with a community center in the new Summit Station located adjacent to Van Norden meadow (part of the older Van Norden project already submitted to the county). Other elements include horseback riding, fishing camps, man-made lakes, and a commitment to bring broadband to the Summit.
Please send us your feedback on this proposal. What do you like about the plan? What are your biggest concerns? You can email us your responses, or fill out our survey.
Royal Gorge promises to update their website with a copy of the presentation and electronic versions of all the maps. They also plan to have a feedback form on their website shortly.
Monday, March 05, 2007
March Working Meeting Minutes
The minutes of the March working meeting are now available. We've now got all of our bookkeeping online via Quickbooks thanks to our administrator, Lori VanMeter, which seems appropriate now that our bank account has swelled to over five digits thanks to our successful grant submissions! Of course the money isn't doing any good in the bank and so the board voted to commit $10,000 of funding to conduct a Summit-wide professionally crafted survey to help move us forward towards our goal of achieving consensus on development planning here on Donner Summit.
The survey is being developed out of the material gathered during the Summit Summit in December. Jim Thomson is heading up the Steering Committee which has been meeting regularly to consolidate the Summit Summit report and hire a professional survey company. We have a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) which will be distributed to potential surveyors in the next couple of weeks. In addition, we are working towards the development of a Memorandum of Understanding which will formalize the constructive working relationships formed at the Summit Summit.
The survey is being developed out of the material gathered during the Summit Summit in December. Jim Thomson is heading up the Steering Committee which has been meeting regularly to consolidate the Summit Summit report and hire a professional survey company. We have a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) which will be distributed to potential surveyors in the next couple of weeks. In addition, we are working towards the development of a Memorandum of Understanding which will formalize the constructive working relationships formed at the Summit Summit.
