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City Council Meeting Minutes March 3, 2020 Page 3 of 12 Tamar Krantz, 691 West St, stated the ad hoc prairie dog group attended the Sustainability Advisory Board (SAB) meeting and the SAB supports adoption of this plan. She read a statement from the SAB urging adoption of the proposed plan. Taylor Jones, 1450 Albion Street, Denver, representative of Wild Earth Guardians, stated the group supports the City adopting a management plan to prevent conflict, reduce uncertainty, and preserve wildlife. Charlie Ealy, 822 Trail Ridge Drive, stated the Councilmembers ran supporting green principals and noted if people can’t access open space from their yards it would generate many more trips by car. Christopher Lindsey, 826 Trail Ridge Drive, stated he is allowed a ten-foot mowed strip between his home and open space and asked how he can maintain that without a gate to access that area to mow. It is a ½ mile walk around and would then cross more open space to get there. Kendall Myers, 362 S Jefferson Avenue, stated his disappointment how this gate issue has been handled and wanted to know what is the emergency; how can we maintain fire breaks if we can’t access through our back yards. Taking away gate access is ridiculous. Paul Stockebrand, 824 Trail Ridge, stated they have a gate that kids use to access the rec center, the skate park, the tennis courts, and other areas. Losing the gates is losing part of the community. He added the gate is an investment in my home. Kendra Stockebrand, 824 Trail Ridge, noted the gate in their neighborhood is heavily used but they have no desire to degrade the open space and work to avoid that. She noted many other social trails in open space aren’t being addressed. Shaun Howe, 845 Trail Ridge Drive, noted the gates were in place when they purchased their house. He stated areas of the neighborhood are more green belt than open space with no wildlife there. He supports careful consideration before implementing this and noted this is not in the spirit of the town. Kelda Neely 198 S. Cleveland Ave, pooled time with four other members in the audience. She stated they bought their homes here to access open space; not having gates discourages people from using the space. They are staunch supporters of open space taxes and understand the need to protect open space, but these access points are not in actual open space but in a mowed drainage. The differences between open spaces, easements, and green ways should be noted. Jeff Fantalis, 818 Trail Ridge Dr, president of HOA, pooled his time with one other member in the audience. He stated 70 houses have a mile of fence that has had 30 plus gates since 1992. He never got a good explanation as to why the new rules. Twice he