Roaring Fork
Residents
Deserve a Vote
on Runway
Expansion

OUR COMMUNITY. OUR AIRPORT. OUR VOTE.

Together, we can steward and preserve the health, wellness and majesty
of the Roaring Fork Valley.

Citizens Against Bigger Planes is founded by residents of the Roaring Fork Valley, like you, who are uniting to oppose to the expansion of the ASE airport allowing for BIGGER planes (mostly privately-owned G650 and 737s).

WE FULLY SUPPORT:

  • Bettering and Updating our ASE terminal, thereby:

  • Improving the traveler experience

  • Overhauling baggage operations

  • Expanding parking for staff and local travelers, and

  • Rebuilding the runway as needed for safe operations.

There are alternative options to what Pitkin County Commissioners are actioning & we’re asking this $500M dollar decision of the ASE airport expansion to allow BIGGER planes be given to our Community to VOTE this November.

YES to Better
NO to
“modernization*”

*AKA the County's word for BIGGER planes

This is Vail.
Is this the experience we want
in Aspen and Snowmass?

Photo courtesy of Reddit

BIGGER Planes DIRECTLY Impact Roaring Fork Valley Citizens:

  • More Traffic & Congestion on Highway 82

  • Longer Lift Lines/Overcrowding Trails

  • Even Less Housing for Locals

  • Multiplied Competition for Limited Parking

  • Increased Pollution for Our Kids & Families

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BIGGER Planes Lead to...

40,000+ More People to the Roaring Fork Valley per month*

BIGGER planes - the Boeing 737 & Gulfstream 650 (mostly privately-owned) will land at
ASE airport with the proposed runway expansion

*FAA forecast is to increase to 1200 tourists/day by 2050

Reach out today to a Board of County Commissioner & demand a vote on the ASE airport expansion as they push to allow BIGGER planes disregarding every one of our four Core Community Goals that they passed on our behalf (See below).

kelly.mcnicholas@pitkincounty.com
steve.child@pitkincounty.com
greg.poschman@pitkincounty.com
patti.clapper@pitkincounty.com
francie.jacober@pitkincounty.com

Let’s remember In 2020, the County passed the “Core Community Goals” for the Pitkin County-Aspen Airport”:

  1. Safety in the air and on the ground

  2. Reduce greenhouse gas and other pollutant emissions by at least 30%

  3. Manage the growth of airline enplanements to be consistent with community growth management plans...(0.8% growth per year*)

  4. Reduce noise by at least 30%