In its search for a place to build a larger fire station, Steamboat Springs City Council considered a new option and axed an unpopular one during its Tuesday meeting.
Since the spring, an ad hoc committee, headed by Steamboat Deputy Fire Chief Chuck Cerasoli, has been evaluating potential locations to build the new station.
The committee’s most recent recommendation, which council members favored at the meeting, would renovate and enlarge the current Mountain Fire Station, at 2600 Pine Grove Road on the east end of Steamboat. That option also would require the construction of a smaller satellite station somewhere downtown, though an exact location has not been determined.
The committee devised this newest option after council members and associates at OZ Architecture, a consulting firm on the project, voiced skepticism over the previous three options.