Summit County pursues new developer for stalled housing project on US Forest Service land

Summit County pursues new developer for stalled housing project on US Forest Service land

The U.S. Forest Service and Summit County first partnered on a housing project outside Dillon in 2023. Earlier this year, the project stalled as the county parted ways with its developer. The county leased land at the Dillon Work Center administrative site from the federal agency through a provision in the 2018 Farm Bill, marking one of the first such agreements in the country. The county entered a predevelopment agreement with Servitas, a housi…