CDOT is used to building roads, but now it’s getting into housing — to help with mountain worker shortages

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Frisco and Fairplay projects could be the first of several to house maintenance crews in pricey places.

For years, trailer parks set up on state-owned land have offered the workers who plow Colorado’s highways and maintain many of its scenic byways one of the surest ways to gain a stable footing in wildly expensive mountain housing markets.Colorado Department of Transportation“And then we saved up enough to get a bigger that was located at the Wolcott facility when another employee left,” he said, referring to another CDOT site.

Yet the housing barrier persists, stamping out some once-eager new hires’ interest after they scope out places to live. This winter, the agency is offering performance bonuses of up to $2,000 to reward workers for the long hours they’re putting in at the helm of snowplows. The Fairplay project, budgeted at up to $6 million, will construct 14 to 16 homes and townhomes on a single acre in town that’s now home to an old CDOT maintenance building. CDOT recently awarded a project contract and is going it alone, though Lorme said some of the homes could be offered to Colorado State Patrol troopers or local government workers.

 

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Well, fking duh! Maybe it's time to look at the states crappy wages also that don't measure up to it's cost of living.

Everyone wants to take on housing directly except our Governor.

So it'll take 12 years to build one house like they usually do with the roads? Then it'll probably fall down once and they'll reinforce it and then be good?

Interesting, so what you are saying is workers need places to live that they can afford based on the salary they are paid? And those workers provide a valuable service to the communities. Excellent

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