Editor’s note: The Aspen Times will continue to update vote tallies as results are counted.
As of 7:31 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, with 32.35% of the total vote counted, 973 Aspen voters, or 58.54% of the current count, supported Aspen Ballot Issue 2B. Currently, 689 Aspen voters, or 41.46% of the up-to-date count, opposed the question.
Through ballot issue 2B: Debt for Lumberyard Affordable Housing Project, the city of Aspen asked voters if it could go into $70 million in debt to help finance a 277-unit proposed affordable housing project, termed Lumberyard, to be located across Colorado Highway 82 from the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport.
The city predicted the Lumberyard affordable housing project would…