HomeMy WebLinkAboutMULBERRY AND LEMAY CROSSING - PRELIMINARY - PUD - 36-96B - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - Citizen Communication (109) 28 October, 1998
Mr. Glen Colton
Current Planning
Planning and Zoning Board
City of Fort Collins
1212 Riverside Avenue
PO Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522
Dear Mr. Colton:
Please do resist , Glen, the very human temptation to scan
this letter instead of really reading it. I understand that you
are--especially at this time--busy, distracted, and outrageously
harassed--and about now, after three long years, you are probably
wondering why you took on this no-win, generally unappreciated
job in the first place.
But I am sure you will agree that the determination the
Board finally makes concerning the proposed establishment of a
Super Wal-Mart at the intersection of Mulberry and Lemay will
tell the City voters which way the wind really blows on the Board
as no other issue in the past decade could have done.
Like fool 's gold, it' s an idea, the glittering attractive-
ness of which is in direct proportion to its purblind stupidity,
and with all due respect I hope the voters of Fort Collins can
count on Zoning to stoutly face up to that fact.
Please consider: the land parcel in question is a stone's
throw away, not only from the lovely green meander of the Poudre
River, but from two (count 'em, two! ) multi-million-dollar,
costly-to-expand, bridges. Consider further that the proposed
site is only two stones ' throw away from an Albertson's, a Long ' s
Drug, as well as numerous small business enterprises, all of
which a Super Wal-Mart, like any self-respecting predator, would
suck into fiscal oblivion in two years flat .
Finally, please consider the nightmarish gridlock which
would inevitably ensue if the Board were to give Wal-Mart the
green light. Try driving either East or West on Mulberry, past
the site in question, at 5:00 on a Friday afternoon. Multiply
that traffic-jam by one full order of magnitude, and envision the
sprawling six-lane set-up the City would be forced to implement
sooner or later.
It 's all enough to make the City's symbolic and fabled
emblematic Canadian Logo-Goose shit a brick!
Cordially,
Robert Zoe ner
11 Stov r treet
(970-416-5969; no copies)
RHZ/rhz