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Originally Posted by onanewday
So a petition is going around right now in response to the development. It literally is asking to stop on development on the slopes. What do people think? Should we be allowing development of this area? The petition is saying that the area is historic and should be perserved for environmental and recreation reasons. Interesting enough it focused on the historic angle.
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This is yet another development in which I sit in 2 completely opposite camps. I value the "wildness" of the slopes, and as someone else mentioned earlier, I love that we have an approach into the city that isn't immediately strip malls and SFH and concrete everywhere. The north is a lost cause, the south was a lost cause long ago, and the east is pretty much a done deal. And unfortunately Hwy 1 is going to be filled with malls and housing just west of there anyway, so it'd be nice if we could keep some semblance of nature around.
But - I just don't agree with "no development, ever!" for an area like this. COP is expanding, they put up huge temporary tents every year, and a lot of the rest of the area is otherwise wasted land. They don't still have the KOA operating, do they?
I certainly don't understand the historic argument, but from a recreational perspective... perhaps some of it should be formalized into a park or something.