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The article in the Summit Daily News regarding the Peak One Parcel was a disgraceful display of biased “reporting.” Pointing out the obvious falsehoods can be done quickly and easily. First, the Frisco Town Council tried very hard to make sure that public involvement was minimal. Public meetings only came into prominence when a few of us concerned citizens realized what the town was trying to push through and demanded input. The council simply decided on their own that they would take this parcel and turn it into affordable housing. They are not elected to make unilateral decisions or to tell the community what it wants; they are elected to carry out our decisions.
Secondly, it is patently false that during the “…public process … there was ‘massive, overwhelming support ....” This is absolutely ludicrous, especially since the man quoted by the Daily, Dan Fallon, was at many of these same meetings I was. Apparently he wasn’t paying attention to the massive, overwhelming opposition at the public meetings.
Finally, with regard to the actual proposal from the town, this is not a generous action made to improve the lives of “the hospital and educational community” as council member Larry Sawyer suggests. The truth is that the town of Frisco has never done a demand study for affordable housing, it is simply going off the study done for the entire county. What that means is that the town is trying to give away a multi-million dollar parcel of land to make sure that Vail Resorts and Intrawest don’t have to pay a living wage to their employees. Who are we really helping? Even if the town tries to assure preference for Frisco employees, the point remains. We would be assuring that businesses would not have to pay the employees a living wage. Dan Fallon says with regards to the people trying to protect open space that “He has never seen such selfish people.” Who is really selfish here, those of us (who are overwhelmingly not multi-millionaires as suggested in the article) who do not want to see a beautiful open parcel denigrated so that business can up their profits, or business owners who believe they should be able to keep their employees in poverty and make the rest of us pick up his bills?
Secondly, it is patently false that during the “…public process … there was ‘massive, overwhelming support ....” This is absolutely ludicrous, especially since the man quoted by the Daily, Dan Fallon, was at many of these same meetings I was. Apparently he wasn’t paying attention to the massive, overwhelming opposition at the public meetings.
Finally, with regard to the actual proposal from the town, this is not a generous action made to improve the lives of “the hospital and educational community” as council member Larry Sawyer suggests. The truth is that the town of Frisco has never done a demand study for affordable housing, it is simply going off the study done for the entire county. What that means is that the town is trying to give away a multi-million dollar parcel of land to make sure that Vail Resorts and Intrawest don’t have to pay a living wage to their employees. Who are we really helping? Even if the town tries to assure preference for Frisco employees, the point remains. We would be assuring that businesses would not have to pay the employees a living wage. Dan Fallon says with regards to the people trying to protect open space that “He has never seen such selfish people.” Who is really selfish here, those of us (who are overwhelmingly not multi-millionaires as suggested in the article) who do not want to see a beautiful open parcel denigrated so that business can up their profits, or business owners who believe they should be able to keep their employees in poverty and make the rest of us pick up his bills?
