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The Impacts of Large Houses: A Recommendation to Limit House Size in Gunnison County

Date: 2000-01-01
Categories: Land Use, Gunnison Basin
Geographic scope: gunnison basin
Source: Sustainable Living Library

Summary

Land use plan (1970-1999). Covers Gunnison County, Crested Butte, Colorado. Topics: house size limits, large houses, house size limitation, land use patterns. Agencies: High Country Citizens' Alliance, Gunnison County Commissioners, US Forest Service. Cites 19 external works.

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Knowledge graph centered on The Impacts of Large Houses: A Recommendation to L with 41 nodes and 80 connections. Top connected: United States Forest Service, climate change, Colorado Department of Wildlife, Erythronium grandiflorum, Gunnison County Commissioners.

Stakeholders (16)

Agencies, organizations, and groups mentioned as actors in this document.

United States Forest ServiceColorado Department of WildlifeGunnison County CommissionersUniversity of ColoradoHigh Country Citizens' AllianceRocky Mountain Institutecounty governmentAmerican Farmland Trust
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Sonoran InstituteGunnison County Assessor's OfficePitkin County Community DevelopmentBank of AmericaCoalition for a Livable FutureAmerican FarmlandRegional Economic Information ServiceGunnison County Community Indicators Project

External References Cited (19)

Works cited by this document, grouped by type.

article (5)

  • Resorts set to back building fee (2000)Steve Lipsher
  • Moratorium Creates Many Questions (2000)Allyn Harvey
  • Housing Woes Plague Town (1999)Steve Lipsher
  • McMansion Mania (1999)Linda Baker
  • Monster Homes: They're a shameful scourgePaul Anderson

book (4)

  • Better not Bigger (1999)Eben Fodor
  • Atlas of the New West: Portrait of a Changing RegionWilliam Riebsame
  • Paying for Growth, Prospering from DevelopmentMichael Kinsley and Hunter Lovins
  • The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made LandscapeJames Howard Kunstler

report (4)

  • Post-Construction Residential Workforce Dynamics in Pitkin County (1999)Gabe Preston
  • Ecological Sustainability and Consumption (1999)
  • Land Use and Cover Change in the US Rocky Mountains II: A Case Study of the East River Valley, Colorado (1995)D.M. Theobold, H. Gosnell and W.E. Riebsame
  • 1995 U.S. Census (1995)

study (4)

  • Pitkin County Residential Construction Workforce Dynamics (1999)Gabe Preston
  • Gunnison County Housing Needs Assessment (1999)
  • Frederick County Cost of Community Services Study (1997)
  • Cost of Community Services Study

other (2)

  • Memo from Rachael to David Baumgarten (2000)Rachael
  • Sprawl