By Shannon Lukens. (Courtesy photos)

 

The City of Steamboat Springs is hosting a Community Open House. It’s with students from the CU Denver Planning Studio. The graduate students are spending the summer working with the City of Steamboat Springs to help create a new Steamboat Springs Area Community Plan. They’re working on themes and areas of focus. You can learn more and provide some local insight and comments at the Open House. It’s from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 29, at the Steamboat Springs Community Center.

 

 

Here’s more from the City of Steamboat Springs; June 27, 2023.

 

CU Denver Planning Studio – Community Open House

Thursday, June 29 | 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Steamboat Springs Community Center (1605 Lincoln Avenue)

 

Join graduate students from the University of Colorado Denver for a casual and collaborative open house. The students are spending their summer working with the City of Steamboat Springs to kick off the process of creating a new Steamboat Springs Area Community Plan. The student-led program is helping identify common community themes and areas of focus to help shape the new community plan, which will officially begin at the end of the year. Community members are invited to the open house to learn more about the project, review the student’s initial findings, and provide valuable insights and comments to help guide the future vision of Steamboat Springs. Attendees can come and go as their schedule allows during the 3-hour open house and light refreshments will be provided.

 

Additional Details:

• Students from the University of Colorado Denver are spending their summer working with the City of Steamboat Springs to kick off the process of creating a new Steamboat Springs Area Community Plan.
• The student-led Planning Studio program is working to identify common community themes and areas of focus to guide the new community plan.
• Students will be in Steamboat Springs the final week of June conducting engagement events within the community. These events will include a series of stakeholder/focus group interviews, as well as more informal intercept interviews at local businesses, events, and public gathering spaces.
• As you see the students in and around the community, please share with them your vision(s) for Steamboat Springs’ future.
• At the end of the summer semester, the students will prepare a report that will identify key issues and plan development methodologies that will inform the overall strategy and approach to creating the new Steamboat Springs Area Community Plan.