Thankl you City Council
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Dear Council Members & City Staff:
I want to thank members Mr. Clark, Ms. Kast and Mr. Mulvey for taking the time to listen and consider each citizens’ speech, for being open minded, reading, knowing and adhering to the City codes and ordinances and taking into account the welfare of the community, its citizens and environment.
Thank you for being open minded while at the same time not having statements in favor of Wal-Mart prepared to read before all citizens and the public had their chance to speak.
Thank you for valuing your predecessors zoning decision of the community, wildlife and open space. Thank you for considering the maintaining of property values of our homes as I do not believe the $1.5M sales tax will be used to help subsidize our loss.
Thank you for not having me need to memorize or add the police department phone number to call for the increased crime occurrences in our neighborhood.
Thank you for considering our future interruptions in our sleep from trucks loading and unloading outside our bedroom window.
Thank you for not putting the terd in the crown jewel of Littleton. Thank you for putting the welfare of the community, its citizens and wildlife foremost.
Thank you for representing your people so compassionately and intelligently.
Lastly, I would like to thank the City staff for being so overly helpful and cooperative in assisting the Wal-Mart applicant in their re-zoning request and not requesting the City do their own independent studies and rely on the Wal-Mart paid consultants. It is true – money does talk.
Dana Moretti
I guess only those who voted against the project are deserving of your thanks. Why not the others who based their decisions not only on public commen, but years of dealing with City issues much deeper than low wages or bad insurance plans.
Why doesn’t your paper run an article about all the misconceptions being branded about due to the against Walmart crowds need to use non-truths to defeat the proposal. The project is not in the park or adjacent to it, why is that so difficult to understand? The Colorado Division of Wildlife (an independent expert used by all Cities in the metro area) reviewed the plan and found no wildlife of any consequence on the Walmart property, and no harm to the existing habitat adjacent to the site.
Mrs. Moretti obviously does not understand how rezonings are processed across the state. The referral process that the City of Littleton sends the plan to for review is the independent studies!! Who better to re iew traffic issues than the professional traffic engineers of the state endowed with the responsibility to provide the best transportation system within the restraints of development and urban issue. Nobody relies on the Walmart studies for decisions, those are based for the applicant justify it’s case. The City uses the “independent” referral procedure to ensure the justification presented is correct and not non-truths. How hard is that to understand?
Their appears to be all these people who believe that Walmart is not adhering to City codes? Who are these people and is their 10 minutes of reading City Code make them a professional planner or engineer? What about the continued myth that Walmart needs the Supercji property for their dirty water?? Why not write a story about the truth> That Walmart only needs to clean their own water and can do it easily on their own property…the City requested them to provide a habitat to increase wildlife and provide water quality opportunties for adjacent projects such as Wolhurst Landing who currently drop their un-clean dirty street water and lawn pesticides into the Platte River habitat? Now that is a story. How about the fact that the professional wildlife overseers at South Suburban maintain that the residential homes (Meadowwood and Wolhurst) have a much larger impact on the wildlife of the park than do Commercial operations like Walmart that restrict access to the park?
In conclusion, why is it that only the council members who voted against the project able to receive your kudos? Their are 1000’s of Littleton people who want the Walmart in that location, why are their concenrs not followed up with your paper? I don’t care if Walmart didn’t respond to your inquiry, why don’t you research and inform everyone about the real issues without all the grandstanding and proliferation of myths to serve your one sided agenda. Just take one issue, such as the water quality pond and write a story to provide the turth and not comical mis-truths.
Lastly, welfare of the community was not served, it will be served when all those against the project pony up in property taxes to provide money to sustaing a great city over time and enable the City to withstand downtruns in the economy. We can sit on high horse as adjacent communities fill in the blanks on retails sales all around us and someday we’d wish we would have been in the game. Maybe Woodlawn will remodel and provide all the money needed to make the City a great one.
I look forward to your continued statments that call out that this site is not the right spot…we;d love to see your credentials that make you an expert. Maybe improving the Littleton examiners editor’s own blighted properties on Main Street will help the City start to develop a base of economic vitality that can be used to sustain economic downturns of the future.
Good luck and make sure to vote for the property tax increase…too bad, we could have had 1000’s of highlands ranch travelers paying for our roads, schools, and special projects.
Pony up Littleton…time to put your money where your mouth is.
P.S. Can you please provide me with more reports about how many meals a councilman has had and who paid for it??? Now that is news!!!!!!!