and i think it really was the underpinning for other proposals that came later. - the san miguel valley corporation came up with several plans and presented them to the county planning commission, one of which we all referred to as marina del blue. he had three lakes out on the valley floor, probably a couple hundred condos surrounding it, it literally looked like marina del rey. - telluride was sort of barely making it, it was a ski resort that wasn't really happening and people were not making much money, they were kind of hand-to-mouth. so you would have thought in most places people would have welcomed this big investment, it was going to be huge. and people were like, "no way in hell." (laughs) - and it really got the people in this town up in arms, i would say, in opposition to what was going on. - virtually everyone in the community wanted the valley floor to be open space, people just didn't know how to do that. did that mean we had to compromise a little bit? would it be possible to just preserve the whole thing? - [presenter] just following up on one of- - in the '90s, our council was rea