“Mick is an interesting human oxymoron.” writes Post blogger Jerry Bovino in comment #1. “He was elected on a platform of limited growth. We all want that, so consider his slow growth concepts a big plus. However, our Mayor quickly evolved into an advocate of almost no growth at all. Unless of course that growth is to build additional ‘affordable housing,’ (another oxymoron in Aspen.) As an aside, I always wonder why building a hotel is unacceptable ‘growth,’ but building a Burlingame is somehow a God-given green venture. They both require trucks, cranes, movement of earth, pipes, sewers. You get the idea. An interesting statistic, frequently bandied about , is that 80 percent of Aspen’s econonomy is based on real estate and construction and development. It’s not Sushi.”