Two Ouray businessmen are abandoning plans to build a series of condominiums to house Ouray Silver Mines employees after the city’s community development coordinator cited a host of shortcomings in the project’s site development permit application.

Mark Iuppenlatz and Craig Hinkson formed a limited liability company, Ouray Housing Group, and closed on the purchase of a 3-acre parcel on Hinkson Terrace earlier this year in the hopes of building three 10-unit condos that would be leased to the ...