BOARD02497

• Board Meeting Date: 7/14/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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any public official in the year 1971 would state
that there is only one course of action open to
the government and that all other courses of
action are out unless they can be fully explored.
We feel that this concern is shared by a number
of environment and ecology groups. We feel right-
fully or wrongly that the alternatives have not
been explored. We would ask that these alter-
natives be explored if they are at all possible.
We feel also that any alternative must include
all of the factors that we mentioned earlier -
flood control in addition to the other concerns
of the City.

Now, the City also feels that it is unfair
to ask either the state or the federal govern-
ment to spend any more for this project than has
been originally approved. Herein comes the rub.
Like all environmentally related issues, somebody
has to pay the bill. An issue can be strained to
death without successful resolution unless some-
one comes forward with a dollar commitment say-
ing, 'We are prepared to pay the cost and have
the environment preserved.'

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The City Council of Littleton is prepared
to present that alternative and one which it
believes will meet the environmental concerns
and yet satisfy the criteria presented by the
Corps of Engineers and the State. Specifically,
let me go into that alternative and we would
ask your very serious consideration of it. The
first proposal, and it should be clearly pointed
out, is that the City's proposal deals only with
the few miles stretch of the river starting at
Columbine Valley going south to Interstate 470.
It is only these few miles section of the river
to this point that we are talking about. We are I
not talking about the balance of the six-mile
project. We hoped to make that very clear at the
outset.

Okay, the proposal is as follows. One, that
public agencies acquire all the flood plains as
defined by the Corps of Engineers as being within