Another nail in the coffin?

What is the vision of our leadership for East Boulder

County?

With the proposed composting facility, the east county will lose 40 acres of land that was purchased with residents’ tax dollars and promised to be preser ved as open space.

It will gain more heavy industry, truck traffic to move millions of pounds of material, and odor.

What a betrayal! Why should we ever tax ourselves to preser ve open space again if this is what can happen?

The east county is already heavily degraded. In 24 years of homeowning in Heather wood, here are some facts about the state of the area that the county commissioners have not yet addressed:

The east county has been assimilated into a private aircraft playground and flight school training area where ever y day hundreds of flights spew noise, carbon, par ticulates and lead over residents, schools, ag lands and open spaces.

Residential roads are stage 4 crumbling with no repair in sight, while road usage goes up, and public options evaporate.

Bus ser vice east of the Gunbarrel Shopping Center has been discontinued.

Major east county roads, with outdated, poorly timed traffic control, are much more congested, causing more noise, stops and starts, idling and slower drive times.

With severe soil erosion, east county soils in ag lands and designated open space are turning into dead dirt populated by bindweed, mullen and sad prairie dogs. See the Woods Brothers area, south of Heather wood Elementar y.

Now the additional costs of this new heavy industr y are to be externalized onto residents.

With all these current problems, why the focus on a giant new industr y?

The evidence seems to indicate that our ver y own commissioners see eastern Boulder County as both tax revenue and a dump. anne WILSON

Boulder