Category: Commissioner meeting highlights

• Amid controversy about the availability of water, health and safety concerns, and viewshed impacts, commissioners voted unanimously to approve the development of a 20,000-chicken commercial egg-laying operation on Fruitland Mesa. Recent Missouri transplant, Noah Knox, told commissioners that he Read on…

Commissioners signed a resolution giving the go-ahead to apply for a Great Outdoors Colorado grant for a regional trail through the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area. Commissioners said they would commit up to $125,000 in matching funds toward the project, which Read on…

• Elyse Casselberry, Director of Community and Economic Development, asked commissioners to review proposed timelines, responsibilities and a fee schedule for the county’s land-use code rewrite. The total estimated price tag is $174,000, more than half of which would go Read on…

HIGHLIGHTS, Sept. 17, 2018, County Commissioner meeting • County Commissioners have replaced hard-copy meeting packets for laptops and digital files during business and work sessions. All documents are now displayed on an overhead projection device during the meeting allowing audience Read on…

While Gunnison County Commissioners, Governor Hickenlooper and Senator Bennet urge BLM to defer the North Fork parcels from a planned December lease sale, Delta County Commissioners agreed yesterday to submit a letter expressing regret over the withdrawal of several upper Read on…

• Commissioners lifted all fire restrictions in Delta County effective immediately. • Commissioners tentatively plan a Oct. 17 meeting with the Delta County Planning Commission to discuss possible elimination of the Area Planning Committees and/or expanding the Planning Commission to Read on…