Comment Gathering Web Site Launched

The Boulder West TSA neighborhood representatives have just launched a new and improved website for gathering your comments and updating you on the latest developments in the CCG process. This website can be reached at:

http://west-tsa-neighborhood-comments.blogspot.com/

If you're interested in learning more about the CCG, process, adding your name to our mailing list, contributing your insights, or commenting on the various ideas being considered, this is the place to go.

With a few exceptions (listed below) this blog contains older and often outdated information.

• Undesignated trails West of Sanitas


• Meeting for neighbors who live in the “central” neighborhoods of the West TSA


• June 10 Board of Trustees Meeting


• Notes from the Neighborhood Listening Session April 7th

Meeting for neighbors who live in the “central” neighborhoods of the West TSA

The Community Collaborative Group (CCG)* is now actively considering a broad range of suggestions for improving the way in which Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) manages the so-called "West Trail Study Area" (West TSA), which are comprised of OSMP properties in the area north of Eldorado Springs, south of Linden, and west of Broadway / Colorado 93.

Under consideration are suggestions about expanding and/or restricting various types of recreational access with the goals of reducing adverse impacts from visitors on Open Space neighbors, improving the visitor experience while reducing user conflicts and providing physically and environmentally sustainable trail systems. Some of the issues being addressed include the rules under which dogs are allowed access to Open Space properties, the accessibility of the area to mountain bikes, and strategies for handling parking issues and social trails.

If you live west of Broadway/north of Table Mesa/south of Canyon you are considered to be a “neighbor” in the central region of the West TSA. The neighborhood representative for the central region is Shelley Dunbar and she will be hosting an open forum to gather neighbor input on the proposals that will be put forth in the upcoming CCG meetings. If you are interested in voicing your ideas for “on the ground” actions that you would like to see in the West TSA, please join Shelley Dunbar at this neighborhood meeting.

Where: Chautauqua Park “Rocky Mountain Climber’s Club” room (lower level of the Community House)
When: Monday July 19th at 6:30 PM

Please come prepared to share your specific, well-thought out solutions to issues you have as a “neighbor” of Open Space! If you are unable to attend this meeting, you can email your ideas directly to the neighborhood rep at shelley.westtsa@gmail.com.

* To find out more about the Community Collaborative Group go to http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11843&Itemid=3763

Change in Time and Location of the July 7th CCG meeting

Change in Time and Location for the July 7th CCG meeting
Please note that the Wednesday July 7th CCG meeting will be held at the West Senior Center at Arapahoe and 9th street (not Cherryvale). We also have a new meeting time, starting at 5:30 and concluding at 9:30pm. Public participation is scheduled for the start of the meeting, so if you plan to speak please arrive by 5:30 PM.
Agenda for this meeting
The agenda is to finish the discussion of proposals for the Sanitas / Anemone Hill / Red Rocks Sub-area. It is important for the CCG to strive for tentative agreement on as many of the proposals as possible, so that the CCG can move on to the next sub-area.
· At Wednesday's meeting it is possible that the CCG will finish the Sanitas / Anemone Hill / Red Rocks Sub-area before the end of the meeting. If that is the case, the CCG will begin discussion of ideas and possibilities for the Western Mountain Parks / Flagstaff Sub-area, with the starting point being proposals already made by CCG members.