The Ginn Development Co, which has proposed to build 1700 homes and condominiums, a private ski resort and golf course near Minturn, a small mining community near Vail Colorado, has hit another stumbling block on its way to getting approval from the town to develop this monumental project. The battle has moved temporarily from land to water. Ginn has laid claim to some of the water from the Eagle River around Battle Mountain, the site of the proposed development, along with 24 other federal, state and local government agencies who feel they have a say in this matter.
A Boulder water rights attorney, representing some of those groups, has made a claim that the Ginn Development Co and Minturn do not have enough water to serve the proposed resort because the water is already owned by other groups.
As in all big projects in quite areas not everyone is in favor of the Ginn project. There is a segment of the Minturn population that want to keep it just the way it is. Very soon, May 20th to be exact, Minturn voters will have the chance to vote on a referendum either approving or denying the Ginn Resort’s annexation into the town.
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