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SENT BY:WSC :10-21-94 9:33AM : 3036725622- 505 7662609:# 1/ 1 <br /> c <br /> _ a <br /> ' G <br /> Post•it'"brand fax transmittal memo 7671 #of pages ► j cower• <br /> TO From J r <br /> Dept. Phone# -Yf•. :�, 4 <br /> 71 <br /> Fax# Fax# <br /> 'I <br /> p explores <br /> ,­,swaptogain forest <br /> :acrea . ' <br /> einAvon 1 <br /> W <br /> :By Ellen Miller mined will go to the Forest Ser- m 1 <br /> SpeClal to The Denver Post V1Ce." <br /> A Boulder developer is explor- "�, <br /> ing ways to obtain 320 acres of The land in Avon lies on the <br /> U.S. Forest Service land aloe In- north side of Interstate 70 and is in <br /> terstate 70 in Avon by working a erge part surrounded by already <br /> approved subdivisions, Glass said. <br /> land exchange to transfer 6,000 ' <br /> acres in the Crystal River Valley "Of the 320 or so acres, only <br /> (near Carbondale to public,owner- about 40 are developable,' he said. <br /> r 'ship• , The rest are on steep terrain <br /> No formal proposal has been more suitable for trails and open <br /> made, and any deal;is a long way space. <br /> down the road because the land is He said the developer is Leon ; r <br /> owned by Mid-Continent Coal Co., Palmos, a Boulder tnari who has <br /> which is tied up in-U.S.Bankruptcy done deals in the past 1 Vail and <br /> Court, said Tom Glass, a land ex- Avon, <br /> change consultant with Western Palmos, in a letter to Avon May- <br /> Land Group. or Buzz Reynolds, said he is con- <br /> Mid-Continent operated coal cerned about the attention already <br /> mines in the Carbondale-Redstone drawn to the situation. <br /> area for years until it went bank- He asked for time to make the <br /> rupt in 1990. appropriate environmental and <br /> There are environmental technical investigations required, <br /> cleanup issues here," Glass said and said that perhaps next year he <br /> "The bankruptcy court wants to would seek to meet with the Avon <br /> get the money through this to do Town Council. <br /> the cleanup. Then if there's any "If I come forward with a pro- <br /> money left over, there might be a posal in the future, I will be sensi- <br /> little for the creditors." tive to the town's concerns with re- d <br /> Glass said the 6,000 acres owned spect to open space, trails and <br /> by the mining company "are just view corridors," he wrote. "I am d <br /> spectacular — totally appropriate only interested in this property if <br /> for public ownership. I doubt any the town of Avon is willing to work <br /> of the land that was actually with me." <br /> H <br /> al ? . <br />