Please do take the time to send an email voicing your concerns. It matters. Below is one outline you can copy/paste if you are in a hurry, but please do read through an assortment of wonderful emails including a terrific video and poem. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CphxbUjKGQmUQxX7AAYmCdtfHvupVxey3G4XGuL6buo/edit?usp=sharing You can still submit correspondence to Suthers following today, and we encourage all to do so, but to be included in the "comment feedback period" for NCC Master Plan, those are due today. Outline of major objections: 1. Buses: No to buses - ever. Full lots mean full trails. It is a natural park protection. We should not crowd the park on the three busy holiday weekends over the summer. If it is full, people can find something else to do. Create an online and text notification system to alert people when certain lots are full and post updates on a digital a sign at front entrance. 2. Roads: No to giving the Broadmoor a road or closing the road between Starsmore and 7 Falls. They can create a bus turn around on their own land inside their gate at 7 Falls, and should they end up with Strawberry Fields, on their land at Strawberry Fields. It displaces low income families who heavily use those picnic areas all summer long. These people will have fewer picnic areas and have to schlep their strollers, coolers, gear across trails while Broadmoor guests ride in luxury straight to their destination. It is the worst kind of elitism. Further, it exacerbates traffic issues eliminating a natural dispersement of cars and people. Most importantly, it is a fire hazard. We already had one fire in 7 Falls. We asked one of the local fire department's their opinion, and they want that road open with two way traffic able to exit the area in multiple directions - not a gated road closed to the public. http://www.kktv.com/content/news/Firefighters-battling-structure-fire-at-Seven-Falls-438707023.html 3. Pavilion above Starsmore: No to tearing down the family picnic and wedding pavilion above Starsmore which has been used by many over the years for special events. This is one of the only spots in North Cheyenne Canon where the public can affordably gather and host private events at low costs in a secluded setting. No to reclaiming nearby trails which has been used by hikers of all races, religions and income levels for the last 120 years. 4. Vandalism/Shenanigans: Use park police to address any "shenanigans" that go on in the park and park rangers to parking tickets. Closing the park at night denies many who do full moon night hikes and further condenses your usage time -- making more congestion problems. Most importantly, empty, closed parks are EXACTLY what attracts "shenanigans". Much better to have park police and traffic to disrupt these instances not to mention as a safety for the people who live inside or near these areas. It is another counter-productive move. 5. Parking: Leave all the pull outs (42) in place. Again, why would you take actions which create more parking/traffic issues? You are creating more traffic congestion. Just because there is not a trailhead there, does not mean it cannot be a natural place to stop and enjoy the park or park to walk to a trailhead. Expand parking where it is naturally allowable. 6. No to theme park additions: Things like gondolas, hanging walkways, (ferris wheels and merry go rounds -- kidding they did not suggest it, but might as well given where we are heading) create an less natural atmosphere in the park. Email: jsuthers@springsgov.com, and for transparency, cc: NCCMasterPlan@springsgov.com, AllCouncil@springsgov.com, savecheyennemountain@gmail.com, zubeck@csindy.com, krdonews@krdo.com, mike.rausch@krdo.com, news@kktv.com, lmartin@kktv.com, news@koaa.com, kduffy@koaa.com, news@fox21news.com, jcole@kxrm.com, jpaul@denverpost.com, info@krcc.com, jim.alexee@sierraclub.org Lastly, for those who may be unaware, most park stewardship restricts access not expands it when public open spaces become crowded. There is a chart showing a couple examples you can read in an email Dana Duggan sent. Yosemite caps several of their trails to as low as 45 per day. Half Dome is 200 per day. Hanging Lake just implemented a reduction from 1,000/day to 615/day. This is appropriate park stewardship to avoid destroying the land which ruins it for both the wildlife and future visitors. Also, please read Kathy Meinig's email in which she references specific pages of the plan and how egregious it is. She provides great shortcuts for everyone. This is a photo of the Mesa Cutler area which contains several social trails which are being recommended to be closed to the public including tearing down of the Mesa picnic pavilion which so many families have used for weddings and inexpensive events. That picnic pavilion is one of the only areas in the park for large groups to gather in a lovely more secluded area. Many groups like National Charity League have used it for ice cream social meetings as well. What an utter waste to lose that pavilion. We understand parties there could pose competing party, noise wise as well as visually, for events being held in the Strawberry Fields meadow which is planned to have a HUGE party barn in the center of it. We counted five structures. What happened to a few small structures towards the edges not in the middle of the meadow and fancy portable restrooms and horses being bused in every morning to minimize destruction of that land?