From the Styx by Peggy Tibbetts

The agenda for the May 12 Board of Trustees meeting came out today. There is NO PUBLIC HEARING scheduled for the Autumn Ridge subdivision. The Board will be acting on the Autumn Ridge Project WITHOUT PUBLIC INPUT. They are planning to re-zone the Autumn Ridge property without a public hearing, which means no due process for Silt property owners even though a public hearing was requested and agreed to, it’s not going to happen.

This is outrageous!

Please call and write to the Board via the Silt Town Hall to voice your objections. It’s vitally important that you do so!

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Don’t be looking to the corporate-controlled US MSM for the truth about gas well drilling in the Piceance Basin. No way. If you want the truth, go to the BBC. Here’s an excruciating glimpse at our neighbors crying and dying …

Oh it’s not just our gas the Empire wants. And yes, it is OUR gas. Gas is a natural resource, that’s why it’s taxed when it’s extracted. Now they want our water, too. In the let-them-drink-gas department, check this out:

Shell makes run on water
Oil-shale plans
By Steve Lipsher

In its quest to melt oil out of western Colorado’s shale, Royal Dutch Shell has been buying up land and water rights in anticipation of what is likely to be a thirsty new industry.

Some officials, however, worry that the demands of the oil-shale industry could drain every drop of the region’s remaining water.

“On the upper end, we’re looking at potentially several hundred thousand acre-feet of water — more than people think is commonly available to develop in the Colorado River,” said Dan Birch, deputy general manager for the Colorado River Water Conservation District.

Shell and other energy companies have amassed tens of thousands of acres of cropland, ranches and open space — including a state wildlife area — to gain water that would be needed to power the oil-shale process.

“We’ve been acquiring land and associated water rights for a long time,” Shell spokesman Tracy Boyd said. “We’re just situating ourselves so that when the time comes, we’ll have the resources we need” …

And if that’s not enough to make you sick, here’s the latest on the Project Rulison nuclear blast site:

Drilling approved nearer to Rulison blast site
Permits conditionally approved about a mile from center of 1969 nuclear explosion
By Phillip Yates

BATTLEMENT MESA, Colorado — The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has conditionally approved 11 permits to drill wells a little more than one mile away from Project Rulison blast site …

For background info on the Project Rulison blast site see Pandora’s Radioactive Box.

So who’s monitoring the radionuclide levels in air, soil, surface and groundwater? Why, the gas companies of course.

Rulison Samping and Analysis Plan for Operational and Environmental Radiological Monitoring Within a Three-Mile Radius of Project Rulison
Prepared for:
Noble Energy, Inc.
Williams Production RMT
EnCana Oil & Gas (USA), Inc.

The most significant paragraph in this document is this one:

The reports will be submitted to the COGCC within approximately 60 days after the receipt of laboratory analytical results. It is anticipated that the quarterly reports will be submitted on or before the nearest business day to June 1 (First Quarter), October 1 (Second Quarter), December 1 (Third Quarter), or February 1 (Fourth Quarter). The annual report will be submitted on or before December 15. Once received and reviewed, the COGCC intends to post the submitted reports on its website for public access.

I guess that means we have to wait until the COGCC publishes the reports.

For what it’s worth, the Mayo Clinic covers Radiation sickness: Signs and symptoms in depth. They recommend potassium iodide. The FDA/Center for Drug Evaluation and Research offers this handy FAQ about potassium iodide.

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Mark your calendar for Monday, May 12.

Autumn Ridge

The first Public Hearing for Autumn Ridge will be held at 7:00 pm to consider the following requests:

1. Comprehensive Plan Amendment Hearing for the Autumn Ridge Subdivision, PUD
2. Zoning/Rezone Application for Autumn Ridge Subdivision, PUD
3. Planned Unit Development Sketch Plan Hearing for the Autumn Ridge Subdivision,
    PUD

For more information on Autumn Ridge subdivision see Nightmare on Main Street.

Did you see the letter to the editor in Monday’s paper? It’s from Brian Cox, a property owner on Cactus Drive. He’s mad as hell. Who can blame him?

Check out the comment from “Anonymous”. Gee I wonder who that is. What’s even funnier is that “Anonymous” sounds more like he’s responding to my blog Nightmare on Main Street than Cox’s letter. Moore’s arrogance is astounding. He always thinks it’s about him. Never mind that he’s requesting more than 10 code variances for his development.

Spot Zoning affects you

The “zoning/rezoning” request is the one that affects all property owners in Silt – not just noticed property owners of the Autumn Ridge project. Currently that site and the surrounding neighborhood is zoned R-1 (low density). Moore & Co. are asking to change the zoning on the property from R-1 to a PUD (Planned Unit Development) with high-density residential mixed commercial. This is what’s known as spot zoning. If the Board sets the precedent by allowing spot zoning for Autumn Ridge, who’s to say your neighborhood won’t be next?

How could that happen?

Well, let’s say your neighbor sells his property to a development company like Moore’s High Point Ventures and they decide they want to build 12-24 townhouse units with a commercial building next door to you, or across the street from you. So they go to the P&Z and Town Board with a request to change the zoning on your neighbor’s property from low density residential to high density residential mixed commercial. Suddenly your whole neighborhood and your whole life changes. Zoning is every property owner’s guarantee of his current and future property value and the current and future plan for his neighborhood. Spot zoning destroys the property owner’s rights.

Back in March, Jeanette Lyon wrote in a Letter to the Editor:

Do you understand how many personal rights you, the people of the Silt area, are losing if Tibbetts and the mayoral replacement gain control of town council?

What a joke!

The truth is, Mayor Moore is the one who wants to take your rights away. We’re still out here working to make sure the people have the right to Public Hearings and fighting for property owners’ rights while Moore works furiously behind the scenes to take those rights away.

Let’s fill up the Town Hall for this important Public Hearing. Please come and speak up to protect you and your neighbors’ property rights.

Moore still wants to stick the taxpayers with his campaign expenses

The second important Public Hearing on May 12 will address Mayor Moore’s request for reimbursement of $1,502.87 in campaign expenses. That ordinance has been changed to an emergency ordinance, which means there will only be one Public Hearing, as opposed to the normal 2 Public Hearings. The reason it was changed is because the state statute requires that the reimbursement occur within 45 days after the request is made. Moore requested reimbursement on April 8. Because the first Public Hearing on April 14 was continued, evidently the deadline would not be met within the normal Public Hearing schedule, and also meet the Public Notice requirements.

Are you confused yet?

Me too. But that’s the decision of the new Town Attorney Duran. I can’t remember his first name.

Moore’s request should have been denied because he doesn’t meet this requirement of the statute:

(2) (a) Authorized expenses shall include, but are not limited to, moneys spent in challenging the sufficiency of the recall petition and in presenting to voters the official position of the incumbent, to include campaign literature and advertising and the maintaining of a campaign headquarters.

The Recall Committee provided solid evidence as proof of Mayor Moore’s employee meddling, his permit violations, his conflicts of interest, his ethics violations, his open meetings violations. Moore failed to address any of those issues in his campaign literature, his mailings, his newspaper ads, or his signs. He was so afraid of addressing the issues he didn’t even attend the candidate forum.

Voice your opinion. Let the Trustees know how you feel about the taxpayers paying for Moore’s campaign.

Ridiculous!

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