They may not officially be neighbors yet, but that didn’t stop the Aspen Fire Protection District from hosting a barbecue for North Forty residents at Station 62, 43 Sage Way Road. A fire truck was on display — much to the delight of a few children at the event — as were the most recent concepts for the district’s subsidized housing project.
It’s all part of an ongoing public outreach effort, Fire Chief Rick Balentine said.
“We didn’t want to get too far down the road with actual design,” he said. “Tonight’s more about massing and scaling and just get more input from the community to see how we can make it as good a project as possible.”
Currently, 18 units are in the works: 13 townhomes, four apartments and one single-family home totalling 22,892 square feet and more than 40 beds in housing capacity. Additionally, the blueprint shows a 2,280-square-foot, two-room, multi-purpose building and 15,485 square feet of underground parking.