Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Dear Editor..


My wife and I bought a home in Pagosa Springs in 2005 as a second home. We have close friends who have had a second home here since 2000 and highly recommended we come here. We are so glad we did. On average, we have spent 2-3 months here a year. Although our primary home is out of state, we consider ourselves Pagosans and are proud to do so. We have spent tens of thousands of dollars furnishing our house from local businesses. We’ve had dozens and dozens of friends and relatives visit with us or come out on their own. Since 2014, we began renting our home out when we weren’t here. Although concerned about the impact this would have on our home, we found that we have taken better care of our home both inside and out due to our desire to make this a first class rental experience. We have spent additional thousands of dollars to upgrade our home for rental purposes. Team Pagosa has been outstanding in their insistence on quality control as well. We have had zero problems. I can’t begin to count the tens of thousands of dollars spent by our guests in local businesses; restaurants, Wolf Creek Skiing, golf, trail rides, balloon trips, souvenirs, hot springs, etc. Multiply this by hundreds of homes just like ours and you get a thriving economy which the local, full-time residents rely on to take care of their families. Pagosa Springs has always been a short-term tourist-based economy supported primarily by the short-term home rental due to a lack of hotel space. Pagosa Springs has made substantial progress in the last few years and needs to keep moving forward, not backward This is 2018, not 1958. We urge the leadership of Archuleta County to resist the small-minded interests of the few, to protect the long term interests of the majority.


Sincerely Proud Pagosans,


Chuck and Janet Chillingworth

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