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<br />ITEMS ENCLOSED <br /> <br />COUNCIL ITEMS <br />COMMERCE CITY REPRESENTATIVE <br />AIRPORT <br />HAROLD KITE, MA~OR OF COMMERCE <br />CITY <br /> <br />ELLIOTT CUTLER <br /> <br />7/19/83 <br /> <br />Page -2- <br /> <br />Councilman Fauson moved, Councilwoman Morris <br /> <br />seconded that the items enclosed be accepted <br />and brought up under the proper head of <br />business. Question called for. All in <br />favor. Motion carried unanimously. <br /> <br />Mayor Harold Kite, Mayor of Commerce City <br />introduced Elliott Cutler, of-Washington, D.C. <br />their Legal Counsel, stating that he would <br />give the presentation for Commerce City on <br />the Stapleton Airport expansion issue to <br />be voted on by D.R.C.O.G. on July 20, 1983 <br /> <br />Mr. Cutler stated that Commerce City did not <br />anticipate that the vote of the Board of <br />Directors of DRCOG would side with the view <br />of Commerce City, but would rather be sub- <br />stantially in favor of the expansion on the <br />Rocky Mountain Arsenal property. He felt <br />that this would be only the beginning of <br />the controversy on the issue. They did not <br />dispute the basic premise of the metro-airport <br />study that was sponsored by DRCOG. The <br />questions before DRCOG that will persist <br />before the Denver region for the next several <br />months and even years are whether the cities <br />and counties of the metropolitan area have <br />the vision of what is really a unique oppor- <br />tunity. Whether the required cooperation <br />can be achieved to build the needed new <br />facilities in time to meet the projected <br />demand and where this massive new airport <br />should be built. The position of Commerce <br />City, Brighton and Adams City is quite simple <br />and straightforward. They would welcome a <br />new airport at a suitable site in Adams County <br /> <br />but the Rocky Mountain Arsenal which is located en- <br />tirely in Adams County is the wrong place for <br />an airport, and Adams County, Brighton, and <br />Commerce City oppose any use of the Arsenal <br />for airport expansion. Were quite confident <br />that they could prevent any such use. Are <br />~tted to taking whatever steps to do that. <br />They had not gone before the DRCOG Board to <br />ask that it endorse the Watkins-Bennett site <br />or any of the other potential airport locations <br />which have not been studied. Pr~fer the <br />