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Spring 2009 Please mark your calendars and join us for the Boulder City Council Hearing on Tuesday, April 21st 2009. 7:00 PM, in the Municipal Building on the South-West corner of Canyon and Broadway. Winter 2008 Dear Friend of Orchard Grove, When City Council rezoned Orchard Grove Mobile Home Park in September 2008, it was unable to rezone the heart of the park, a 5-acre open space that residents have cherished for a half century. This open space is a quiet island of green in the midst of high density housing. It is the heart of our neighborhood. It is what makes Orchard Grove unique -- environmentally, historically, and aesthetically. More importantly, it provides a critical, irreplaceable “urban wildlife corridor” that connects mountains to prairie, through our beautiful city.Click here to read more ...
Please email all of the council members at Esta dirección de correo electrónico está protegida contra los robots de spam, necesita tener Javascript activado para poder verla , or give the Council a call at (303) 441-3002.
Your letters can also be sent to the Daily Camera at Esta dirección de correo electrónico está protegida contra los robots de spam, necesita tener Javascript activado para poder verla , and their phone number is (303) 473-1365. Unless the 5-acre parcel is also rezoned, it remains vulnerable to developers. We are embarking on a campaign to save this precious open space. There are important legal and socio-economic reasons for rezoning the 5-acre open space of Orchard Grove: 1. Community character: One of the goals of the Boulder County Comprehensive Plan is to "preserve community character." The first rezoning preserved only our homes. To preserve the character of our community, the 5 acres must also be rezoned. If the 5 acres were to be developed, it would fundamentally and unalterably change the character of our neighborhood. 2. Potential affordable housing stock: If Boulder's affordable housing stock needed to be increased, additional homes could be added to the inner edge of the 5 acres. Supporting and adding manufactured housing is a goal of the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan and Boulder's MH zoning. Where else in Boulder can there be expansion of a mobile home park? 3. Sustainability: The 5-acre open space provides options to Orchard Grove Mobile Home Park. The inner edge of the open space has room to hold existing homes, if some needed to be moved due to a flood, or if we needed to rearrange the pads in order to create business space along Valmont road, or if a facility benefiting our continued community could be built. Our community is significantly less economically and socially sustainable if we lose the 5 acres. 4. Historical land use: The 5 acres are historically a part of Orchard Grove, as shown by the placement of homes within it, the community garden, the park maintenance building, and the absence of fencing separating the two parcels. 5. Indoor/outdoor living ratio: Open space is far more important to our neighborhood than to most others, since on average each Orchard Grove resident occupies only 381 square feet of living space. For basic sanity and harmonious family relations, our outside areas are life-saving. 6. Urban wildlife corridor: The 5-acre open space of Orchard Grove is an irreplaceable urban wildlife corridor that must be protected from development. Its preservation has been endorsed by the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club. A team of scientists and environmentalists recently completed a thorough, in-depth Wildlife Assessment of the 5-acre open space. We are enclosing a copy of this report, so you may fully appreciate that development would put at risk the health of our interdependent ecosystem – imperiling humans, mammals, birds, and trees alike. If you have any questions, please contact members of Orchard Grove Conservancy’s Steering Committee, at www.saveorchardgrove.org, or by calling 303-939-8918. Thank you, The Steering Committee Orchard Grove Conservancy |
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