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The region runs on a dozen public boards, a busy calendar, and a vocabulary all its own. Ten minutes on this page and none of it will feel like a maze.
The region runs on a dozen public boards, a busy calendar, and a vocabulary all its own. Ten minutes on this page and none of it will feel like a maze.
Livable Telluride gathers everything civic in one place — every meeting, the local news, the big land-use fights, events, housing, and the groups that hold the community together. That's a lot. This page is the map: who actually decides things around here, what people are arguing about, and the easiest ways to be part of it.
Everything inside town limits: land use, housing, parks, the budget. Town Council decides; the Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) reviews development first; HARC guards the historic district's look.
Everything outside the towns — Lawson Hill, Aldasoro, Ilium, the mesas, and the west end. The three-member Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) decides; a county Planning Commission advises.
Its own town with its own council, up the hill and connected by the gondola it co-funds. Runs its own land-use process, including the Design Review Board.
The schools, run by an elected Board of Education. Also a major landowner in conversations about where workforce housing could go.
The San Miguel Authority for Regional Transportation — regional buses and a key player in how the free gondola gets funded.
The Telluride Fire Protection District (fire + EMS) and the hospital district behind the Telluride Regional Medical Center — separate elected boards, separate budgets, both public.
Plus the smaller towns — Norwood, Ridgway, Ophir, and Rico — each with its own board. Gov-Hub tracks all of them in one calendar.
The Town's plan to redevelop the Carhenge parking lot at 700 W Pacific into workforce housing — the biggest land-use decision in town, moving through P&Z right now.
Both the Town and County are rewriting the rules of what can be built where — density, deed restrictions, short-term rentals. Dry-sounding, decides everything.
One paved road out of the box canyon and a hotter, drier forest around it — evacuation routes, defensible space, and fire-aware building codes.
The beloved free gondola costs real money, and the agreement on who pays is being renegotiated.
The Town's debt load has grown sharply — a spending tracker on where the money goes and what it means for future budgets.
There's more where those came from — the full Deep Dives library covers Society Turn, Diamond Ridge, Ski-Gate, and the rest.
The Week Ahead: the meetings that matter, what to attend, and one thing worth knowing — free, every Monday morning, five-minute read.
Subscribe freeEvery meeting has an agenda summary in plain English, a Zoom link when there is one, and a one-click way to email written comments. Lurking is allowed.
See this week's meetingsAnswer the Question of the Day with one tap — no account needed — or post a question of your own on the community board.
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