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lower leg of the second rainbow remained. Rainbows are fleeting, they can only be preselVed by a photograph. How you vote tonight will determine what happens to the rest of that View. I urge you to deny this annexation request and to please re-evaluate the comprehensive plan that includes this property. This is a community view. The opposition to this subdivision is not just a group of neighbors trying to protect the view from their homes. This is a town that appreciates its natural resources for ourselves; for our visitors, many of them international; and for those who will be here long after we are gone. Thank you. Jackson Sherwood, Pastor of Good Shepard Christian Center, 13380 Grove Way, Broomfield, Colorado Sherwood: I would like to speak in favor of the approval for the annexation consideration. We see it being a unified and orderly development of this area. It is my personal opinion and perspective that this land will be developed someway or other. I have seen other homes that Mr. Markel has built and other projects that he has done. Mr. Markel has done a remarkable job and I feel he could do a good job of unifying this in an orderly and beautiful way. Steve Smith, 1085 West Willow Street, Louisville, Colorado Smith: My property is one of those that faces directly west on McCaslin Blvd. and faces the property in question for development. I came before this Council last October when there was another group named Mountain Mesa Development that was working at developing this property in a fashion very similar to what Mr. Markel is talking about. At the time it had gone before the Planning Commission once in an attempt to change the proposed development. At that time, it came back to Council and was basically dropped at that point because of the resistance that evidently existed from the neighbors. Our biggest concern as has been expressed here, is to preselVe the nature of that Mesa as it exists today. What Mr. Markel talks about is the inevitability of development. He works on the premise that this property will be developed, that something will happen here and that it should happen in the direction that he sees most fit for that property. I think what is most important for us and the people who live in this area, the City of Louisville, is that it be developed in a fashion that works well for everyone. It's admirable that Mr. Markel see value in working with the neighbors. Up to this point we have heard no