[BoulderCouncilHotline] FW: Hogan Pancost meeting Oct 10

[Weaver, Sam]

CAC members and HOTLINE followers,

I find the multitude of emails like the one we received below compelling – why are we not hearing public testimony regarding Hogan Pancost at the start of the meeting on either Oct 10 or Oct 17?

If it were up to me, I would schedule the whole night Oct 10 for staff/applicant/organized-community testimony and Council questions, and all of Oct 17 for public testimony, followed by deliberations if we get there.

The sense of Council I got from our discussion Tuesday is that if we do not get completely through this annexation decision by Oct 17, that it would be OK to go to the new Council. If that is truly the case, then we need to make it as easy as possible for the public to weigh in on this very important discussion. Otherwise, it appears that we are trying to limit public input, exactly the opposite of what the Public Process Working Group recommended.

I am also deeply uncomfortable that we are giving the development group more time than the community groups, as well as the last word, during the structured presentation and discussions.

Thank you for considering my thoughts.

All the best,

Sam Weaver
Member of Boulder City Council
weavers at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:weavers at bouldercolorado.gov>
Phone: 303-416-6130

From: Ulrike Romatschke [mailto:romatschke at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 9:49 AM
To: sebna-private at googlegroups.com<mailto:sebna-private at googlegroups.com>
Cc: Council <council at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:council at bouldercolorado.gov>>; Ferro, Charles <FerroC at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:FerroC at bouldercolorado.gov>>; Guiler, Karl <GuilerK at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:GuilerK at bouldercolorado.gov>>
Subject: Hogan Pancost meeting Oct 10

Dear Members of the Boulder City Council,

When I moved to Boulder several years ago I felt like I was moving to paradise. Not just from an landscape/outdoor/environmental perspective but also regarding politics and appreciation of participation of the public in decision processes. After reading the agenda for the October 10 Hogan Pancost meeting (and the events that lead up to that agenda) I am not so sure anymore.

The residents of Boulder have been fighting the development of the Hogan Pancost property for almost 30 years, successfully collecting and providing evidence of the dangers to their properties and even lives if the development goes through. At the meeting on October 10 we, the residents, get a total of 20 minutes to present our concerns. 10 minutes for groundwater, and 5 minutes each for flooding and wetlands. 10 minutes to go through all the inaccurate and misleading statements in the groundwater report and all the scientifically questionable "results" of the groundwater model? 5 minutes to discuss the illegal filling of the wetlands? 5 minutes to point out the danger to our properties and lives due to increased flooding risk? And after these 5 minutes on flooding the developer gets another 5 minutes for yet another rebuttal with no possibility for us to respond?

Public hearing will not even start until late in the evening but sign up starts already at 5 making it even harder for people like me (a working mom with three small children) to make our voices heard. Yes, we are promised that we can sign up later, but with no clearly defined end time this promise is meaningless.

I kindly ask you to please reconsider this agenda.

Regards,
Ulrike Romatschke
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