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I really want to thank you guys for setting this out here. I walk through this farm probably twice <br />a day every day since I primarily work from home. I really like that we're adding another trail <br />with the option A. I think that will be really useful for a lot of the community that live right here <br />and for expanding the ADA space which is definitely needed. As far as that Aquarius trail, I had <br />a friend that wiped out on his bike and had to go to get patched up afterwards and it is definitely <br />steep and having an alternative is excellent <br />I would like to strongly consider us proposing option B to you all if possible at all. I feel that the <br />connection from crossing S boulder road on the Harney-Lastoka trail, would be a lot closer to <br />connecting to this trail rather than needing to double back to empire to get around there. And <br />having a loop would just be really useful for a lot of the community for biking and walking dogs <br />and exercise and I understand it's right near the water treatment facility and the farm so there are <br />definitely challenges but I would push for option B if that is possible <br />So not really a question, I just am really excited about this and when I saw there was a new trail <br />coming in, even if it's just option A, that's fantastic so I just wanted to thank you guys <br />Trace Baker: <br />In preparation for this meeting I did go out and ride the existing trails and roads on the <br />perimeters off the property here and I did come encounter one visitor and she said that she had <br />read the plan and there was one note in it about how the lack of lighting had discouraged people <br />from visiting the property during darkness. This visitor wanted to strongly recommend against <br />adding lighting because she said that she really valued going out and looking at the stars and <br />listening to night sounds. So, I'll pass that on for her. Full disclosure I am a member of Boulder <br />County Parks & Open Space POSAC and am a volunteer ranger and I'm making this comment <br />as a private individual and not as a member of those two organizations. Thank you <br />Tim Schafer: <br />My name is Tim Schafer and I am on the Lafayette Open Space Advisory Committee and I <br />appreciate the opportunity to see this presentation. I'm sort of thumbing through the story map as <br />were going a long and this is great! I can't wait to dig in on the story map a little more its well <br />put together. Similarly, I haven't gotten through all of the plan but kind of looked at is as I could <br />and was just curious about any recommendations you all had for protections of the riparian zone <br />there. As I see in the report, it was identified that there were a number of important aquatic <br />species, some of those are state listed species that have been found in coal creek there and I <br />notice form the county's comprehensive plan was that shows up as zone I for Preble's Meadow <br />Jumping Mouse habitat and we just know that riparian zones are pretty important there and I see <br />that the trail alignment there is looking at a crossing there of coal creek and I'm just curious what <br />you all have come up with in terms of any protections of the riparian zone <br />For full disclosure I should say I'm also a wildlife biologist for BCPOS but not participating on <br />this team— I'm showing up as a member of LOSAC <br />Public Comments Received Through Web Form: <br />Up-to-date comments can be found at <br />https:Hbouldercountyopensp ace.or2/comments/mayhoffer/submitted <br />7 <br />