County decides against taking over Buckhorn projects

Everything is either finished or contracted to be

Buckhorn Ranch developer Dick Landy will get to hold onto most of his money, or at least spend it as he wishes, as long as the contracts he has signed in the last few weeks to get work done at the subdivision south of Crested Butte are completed to standard.

After several years of haggling with Landy about items from a heavily amended Development Improvement Agreement that need to be completed, the Board of County Commissioners gave county attorney David Baumgarten permission to take over the projects in late May, using $1.7 million that Landy had put aside as security.
But it hasn’t come to that. After commissioners told Baumgarten to send Landy a letter of non-compliance, Baumgarten told the commissioners on Tuesday, June 22 that the developer entered into a contract that will make the county a third-party overseer on contracts he has executed to get the work done, if it hasn’t already been done already.
According to Baumgarten, Landy has signed contracts with Lacy Construction Company to have road work done that either was never completed or has fallen into disrepair. The roads that come out of those contracts will get a close look from county assistant director of public works Allen Moores, who will make sure the job is done to county standard.   
“Dr. Landy has executed a contract with Lacy for those elements. Lacy is proceeding with that work post-haste. Allen Moores has made himself available for that project,” Baumgarten told the commissioners.
As a third party on the contracts, the commissioners had the assurance they wanted that they could take over the projects with Landy’s money if he were to default on any of the projects.
“My advice to you is that we not pull security, but rather that the status remain that he is non-compliant,” Baumgarten said. “If in the next period of time the contract with Lacy goes south, we have the right to enforce that contract as if we were the contractor.”
According to Baumgarten, the timeline for getting the work done will move along relatively quickly. General road repairs and preparation for the resurfacing of the roads in filing 1 and 2a will need to be done by the end of next week and the projects should be completed by July 31.