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Conservation

San Juan Mountains

Telluride, Mountain Village and San Miguel County have a long-term history of cooperating when it comes to conservation and managed growth. 

In order to conserve the natural beauty of this magnificent valley while developing a dynamic and attractive community full of recreational and cultural opportunities, there must be careful, balanced planning. Overly restrictive conservation measures could have curbed development to the point that Telluride would have remained a ghost-mining town into the next millennium. On the other hand, too much development could have turned the area into a mountain Disneyland.

The magic balancing act was found in the form of a Comprehensive Development Plan for San Miguel County.  Created in 1980 and modified every decade, the plan puts reasonable limits on development in Telluride, Mountain Village and the surrounding area.

Two exemplary instances of conservation are the Idorado East-End Development and the nationally recognized condemnation effort of the Town of Telluride to condemn 550 acres on the Valley Floor, west of Telluride.

Idorado East End: In the fall of 2001, the voters of Telluride rejected annexation of the Idorado Mining Company's vast holdings east of town, including the east end of the valley and much land in the high basins. The feeling was that the development the mining company wanted to do in town on their Kentucky Placer parcel located near the entrance to Bear Creek, as a part of the annexation agreement, was just not acceptable.

Valley Floor: The voters in summer 2002 also approved condemnation of the Valley Floor west of town (owned by the San Miguel Valley Corporation) in order to prevent its development. These two actions illustrate the commitment of Telluride residents to preserving open space both in and around the town and their determination to make the planning process their own.

Development of Hotels and Condo projects in Mountain Village and Town of Telluride still fall within conservation zones.  Rosewood and Capella are two such projects.

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