KZMU News: Tuesday July 23, 2019

New overnight accommodations - with some exceptions – are now prohibited in Grand County, after a special meeting last week. Council members also approved an overnight accommodations overlay map, which safeguards existing overnight rentals, a few parcels with viable takings claims, and includes certain parts of Crescent Junction, Thompson Springs, and Cisco. Moab City will consider a similar ordinance restricting overnight lodging at their meeting Tuesday July 23rd. And later on the newscast, an update on West Nile Virus mosquitoes and data tracking the number of deaths on Colorado’s rivers compared to years with similar high flows.

[Photo: Rafters scout a rapid along the Yampa River in Dinosaur National Monument in May 2019. Luke Runyon/KUNC]