{"id":794,"date":"2023-07-06T05:12:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2023-07-06T05:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:12:06","slug":"vail-sheep-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"Vail Sheep Land"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A judge is going to let the town of Vail take over land that was originally meant for ski resort employee housing, and instead, save it for\u2026&nbsp; sheep\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Vail Land Controversy vxr\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:25)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a6796b64-9874-44b4-a509-ec620075689b\" href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230706-Vail-Land-Controversy-vxr.mp3\">230706-Vail-Land-Controversy-vxr<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230706-Vail-Land-Controversy-vxr.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-a6796b64-9874-44b4-a509-ec620075689b\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years, Vail has been trying to stop the resort from building employee housing on a 23-acre piece of land along I-70.&nbsp; The town argues that land is critical habitat for a bighorn sheep herd.&nbsp; Vail Resorts owns the property, and says the town doesn\u2019t really care about those sheep&#8211;&nbsp; it\u2019s just worried about neighbors opposing the new housing for its workers.&nbsp; An Eagle County Judge has now sided with the town, saying it can take over that property, if it pays the resort 12 million dollars for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge is going to let the town of Vail take over land that was originally meant for ski resort employee housing, and instead, save it for\u2026&nbsp; sheep\u2026 (Vail Land Controversy vxr\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:25) For years, Vail has been trying to stop the resort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}