Our meeting with Council Person Shirley Peel and Laura Walker
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Our meeting with Council Person Shirley Peel and Laura Walker
Uday Vissa
Hello Commissioner John,
We (Vara and myself) had a meeting with Council Person Shirley Peel and Laura Walker on Friday August 25th, and below are the list of concerns we had expressed regarding the Behavioral Health Facility and the Proposed Waste Shed to be put up at this location, which helped facilitate this meeting with them. Council member Peel asked us to copy you on these concerns we had expressed at that meeting.
Good morning, Shirley, Sarah, and Laura,
Thank you for scheduling a meeting on Aug 25, at 1 pm. Our intentions are:
- to extend an invitation to break barriers of communication, trust and transparency between government and its people
- to present our perspectives, from our lived world and experiences with our data and research
- to get attention, recognition and serious solutions for problems imposed by the City and County at our door step – Behavioral Health Facility (BHS)
- to get the lighting in BHF fixed immediately. However, it is not the only problem from BHF on our sensitive socio-economic-environmental ecosystems.
Therefore, we intended for a tour of the intersection of the Taft Hill and Trilby Roads, our residential neighborhood (Wildflower Road), and our house (6716 Wildflower Road). Please include this for tomorrow.
We came to you, Councilor Shirley in desperation to bring festering concerns on the genesis, governance, funding, logistics and the ‘in-our-face‘ impacts of two County infrastructure projects at Trilby and Taft Hill Roads, i.e., the first of building to come on the Behavioral Health ‘Campus’, and the Waste transfer Station (WTS) of the Solid Waste Infrastructure Master Plan/Regional Waste Shed (SWIMP). The residents literally at the cross-roads, and locally, have the most burden to bear but have the least visibility and voice.
The dirt harvesting trucks, tracks and plumes are a Mon-Sat onslaught to air, noise, and visual spaces. BHF is within that impact zone. Landfill is not going to be capped soon. BHF would never be in green, tranquil, or rural settings per the propaganda, with its own misplaced footprint and vehicular traffic for patients, employees and visitors, on top of traffic on Taft and Trilby and the dump trucks from landfilling/waste operations. WTS is NOT the antidote. SWIMP is not to be dumped on our time and space anymore! Leave us alone. Widespread misrepresentation and bogus failing plans for waste transfer and diversion must stop. Taxpayer funded BHF couched in cryptic ballot language, and the SWIMP have cumulative, synergistic and negative impacts for District 4 and the entire County for 100 years.
Your time to meet with common citizens may be limited and formal. If you are not ‘the hands on’ problem solvers, please provide plans and contacts of delegated officials/staff in District 4, City of Fort Collins, and County to meet at our spaces, repair damages and build trust. With leadership changes and job transfers from Mayor, Commissioners, Councilors and Directors, we are placated, bucked or ducked, from person to person, department to department, and most disappointingly from government to government.
The residents along Trilby from the foothills until Shields, are historically and intentionally less dense and ‘rural’, by choice, and on our personal investments. We have been annexed into the City of Fort Collins. This doesn’t mean, we have no rights or needs, that we can be taken for granted by the City and County to impose traffic, noise, air, light pollution, property degradation, and a series of safety unknowns. Both governments must take responsibility. We are yards away from 24x7 acute services for substance abuse and acutely ill mental health patients requiring Law Enforcement Services and first responders, plus the heavy vehicular trash hauling operations from as far as Estes Park and routes to far away Wellington. Why should we bear this meaningless and outsized burden?
- We seek timely inclusion in every planning and decision-making meeting (uvi...@yahoo.com)
- Outreach from County and City is selective, non-representative, and even exclusionary. We seek plans for residents of diverse backgrounds and stages of life, to be met, and respected where they are at.
- We seek guidelines and commitments from BHF and Solid Waste to stop present and future deterioration of our health and wealth (Trilby and Taft Hill Roads in District 4)
- The WTS plans must be scrapped. The Solid Waste Policy and Technical Advisory Council meeting on Aug 10, 2023, exposed all the economic, logistic and inter-governmental challenges and volatility with stakeholders and markets, known even in earliest stages of SWIMP. Commercial, industrial and non-residential routes, innovations in decentralized/incremental/smaller models can be experimented.
- Our County’s contiguous iconic Foothills/View Shed, the dark skies and open spaces along conservation easements, Cathy Fromme, Prairie Ridge, Coyote Ridge open spaces must be preserved and extended, by adding the current WTS lands per the 1995 plan for the Fort Collins- Loveland Corridor.
Looking forward optimistically, to this first interaction for immediate and long-term communication and comprehensive results.
Sincerely,
Uday and Vara Vissa
We (Vara and myself) had a meeting with Council Person Shirley Peel and Laura Walker on Friday August 25th, and below are the list of concerns we had expressed regarding the Behavioral Health Facility and the Proposed Waste Shed to be put up at this location, which helped facilitate this meeting with them. Council member Peel asked us to copy you on these concerns we had expressed at that meeting.
Good morning, Shirley, Sarah, and Laura,
Thank you for scheduling a meeting on Aug 25, at 1 pm. Our intentions are:
- to extend an invitation to break barriers of communication, trust and transparency between government and its people
- to present our perspectives, from our lived world and experiences with our data and research
- to get attention, recognition and serious solutions for problems imposed by the City and County at our door step – Behavioral Health Facility (BHS)
- to get the lighting in BHF fixed immediately. However, it is not the only problem from BHF on our sensitive socio-economic-environmental ecosystems.
Therefore, we intended for a tour of the intersection of the Taft Hill and Trilby Roads, our residential neighborhood (Wildflower Road), and our house (6716 Wildflower Road). Please include this for tomorrow.
We came to you, Councilor Shirley in desperation to bring festering concerns on the genesis, governance, funding, logistics and the ‘in-our-face‘ impacts of two County infrastructure projects at Trilby and Taft Hill Roads, i.e., the first of building to come on the Behavioral Health ‘Campus’, and the Waste transfer Station (WTS) of the Solid Waste Infrastructure Master Plan/Regional Waste Shed (SWIMP). The residents literally at the cross-roads, and locally, have the most burden to bear but have the least visibility and voice.
The dirt harvesting trucks, tracks and plumes are a Mon-Sat onslaught to air, noise, and visual spaces. BHF is within that impact zone. Landfill is not going to be capped soon. BHF would never be in green, tranquil, or rural settings per the propaganda, with its own misplaced footprint and vehicular traffic for patients, employees and visitors, on top of traffic on Taft and Trilby and the dump trucks from landfilling/waste operations. WTS is NOT the antidote. SWIMP is not to be dumped on our time and space anymore! Leave us alone. Widespread misrepresentation and bogus failing plans for waste transfer and diversion must stop. Taxpayer funded BHF couched in cryptic ballot language, and the SWIMP have cumulative, synergistic and negative impacts for District 4 and the entire County for 100 years.
Your time to meet with common citizens may be limited and formal. If you are not ‘the hands on’ problem solvers, please provide plans and contacts of delegated officials/staff in District 4, City of Fort Collins, and County to meet at our spaces, repair damages and build trust. With leadership changes and job transfers from Mayor, Commissioners, Councilors and Directors, we are placated, bucked or ducked, from person to person, department to department, and most disappointingly from government to government.
The residents along Trilby from the foothills until Shields, are historically and intentionally less dense and ‘rural’, by choice, and on our personal investments. We have been annexed into the City of Fort Collins. This doesn’t mean, we have no rights or needs, that we can be taken for granted by the City and County to impose traffic, noise, air, light pollution, property degradation, and a series of safety unknowns. Both governments must take responsibility. We are yards away from 24x7 acute services for substance abuse and acutely ill mental health patients requiring Law Enforcement Services and first responders, plus the heavy vehicular trash hauling operations from as far as Estes Park and routes to far away Wellington. Why should we bear this meaningless and outsized burden?
- We seek timely inclusion in every planning and decision-making meeting (uvi...@yahoo.com)
- Outreach from County and City is selective, non-representative, and even exclusionary. We seek plans for residents of diverse backgrounds and stages of life, to be met, and respected where they are at.
- We seek guidelines and commitments from BHF and Solid Waste to stop present and future deterioration of our health and wealth (Trilby and Taft Hill Roads in District 4)
- The WTS plans must be scrapped. The Solid Waste Policy and Technical Advisory Council meeting on Aug 10, 2023, exposed all the economic, logistic and inter-governmental challenges and volatility with stakeholders and markets, known even in earliest stages of SWIMP. Commercial, industrial and non-residential routes, innovations in decentralized/incremental/smaller models can be experimented.
- Our County’s contiguous iconic Foothills/View Shed, the dark skies and open spaces along conservation easements, Cathy Fromme, Prairie Ridge, Coyote Ridge open spaces must be preserved and extended, by adding the current WTS lands per the 1995 plan for the Fort Collins- Loveland Corridor.
Looking forward optimistically, to this first interaction for immediate and long-term communication and comprehensive results.
Sincerely,
Uday and Vara Vissa
John Kefalas
Aug 27, 2023, 11:00:04 PM8/27/23
to Uday Vissa, jkef...@larimer.org
Good Evening Uday & Vara,
Thank you for including me in this email exchange so I can better understand your concerns and questions regarding the BHF and the proposed solid waste transfer station. As you know, the construction of the BHF is scheduled to be completed at the end of this month so that should help with the construction impacts, and I will inquire about the lights and follow up with Laura Walker about your Friday meeting. The proposed transfer station is another matter that directly involves Laurie Kadrich, Assistant County Manager, and Lesli Ellis, Community Planning, Infrastructure & Resources Director, and I will share your email with them so they are also aware of your concerns. We appreciate your attendance at the 8/10 SW PAC meeting in Loveland.
 | John Kefalas County Commissioner, District 1 |
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