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Nancy Yearout Daily Summit County Colorado Update ilverthorne relinquishes $500,000 grant By pursuing eminent domain to connect the Blue River Trail at Town Hall through private property to where it picks up again near the Willow Grove Open Space, Silverthorne forfeited its $500,000 Great Outdoors Colorado grant. Tallying the loss of the grant and attorney and staff costs in the litigation, Silverthorne has lost approximately $690,000, Councilman Dave Anderson said. The project budget was originally set at $1.5 million, and the grant was to offset that amount, allowing the money to go toward other projects. On Jan. 20, Great Outdoors Colorado staff received a letter from the town that announced it would forfeit the funds, communications director Chris Leding said. “We will not participate in a project that uses eminent domain,” she said. “It's a long-standing rule with lottery proceeds. We want to work with willing landowners. ... When they decided to use eminent domain, they knew they would not be able to use grant funds.” Council opted in November 2011 to exercise the town's right of eminent domain to install a segment of the recpath through private property. Previously, the recpath design involved an expensive boardwalk that would extend into the Blue River. That project was funded at $1.5 million, a budget that's still maintained with town funds, minus litigation and staff time costs. The subsequent redesign requiring eminent domain involved more at-grade path sections which are drastically less expensive to build, town spokesman Ryan Hyland said, which is why the town isn't worried about forfeiting the grant. “A good illustration of that is the cost we experienced in paving the northern portion of this trail segment last fall,” Hyland said. “To pave approximately 500 feet of trail was only $77,000.” Still, the town must factor in the costs of ongoing litigation of the trail — as of Jan. 31, the town had spent $143,613 in roughly a year of court proceedings. That doesn't include upcoming eminent domain court hearings or land value settlements. “The monetary impact is aggravating, but even more aggravating is the fact that the litigants have deprived the community of a trail amenity that was ready for construction in 2011,” Anderson said. As of Monday, Silverthorne was unsuccessful in its argument that it could build a bike-friendly trail through its private property easement Now, it's also involved in the eminent domain proceedings. To plaintiffs in the case, the town's legal fees and design costs of the project have been “exorbitant.” “They are spending more money on legal fees and compensation due to acquiring additional easements and the condemnation of our private properties through eminent domain,” Laura Lyddy and Ginny Crowley stated via email. “However, the town knew from the beginning of the process, that condemnation of private property would result in the loss of this $500,000 grant.” According to Councilman Vince Lanuza, litigants lobbied the Great Outdoors Colorado board in 2010, hoping to convince them to reject the grant application before grant awards were decided. Town finance director Donna Braun said losing the grant pressures the town's budget, but conservative budgeting means the town's ability to fund the project isn't jeopardized. “The grant funding certainly would have ... made it possible for the town to bring other planned, but unfunded, improvements to our parks, trails and open space,” Braun said, adding that though construction costs won't be known until the redesigned project goes to bid, “we are confident the project can still be accomplished within the original project budget.” Great Outdoors Colorado has funded other portions of the Blue River Trail and Silverthorne park improvements to the scale of $1.9 million. Silverthorne also received the Lottery Starburst Award in 2009 in recognition of the Blue River Trail's segment four and the Tammy Lynn Jamieson Memorial Bridge, and the latest segment was one of eleven selected for statewide grant funds. Silverthorne Mayor Dave Koop said the Lottery Starburst Award honored the trail project for demonstrating excellent use of Colorado Lottery funding to positively impact the community. Given that strong working relationship and their desire to maintain it, Silverthorne officials opted to decline the grant before it was revoked, Koop said.
Courtesy Summit Daily News
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