Phyllis Hasbrouck of the West Waubesa Preservation Coalition asked me to forward this on to all bikies in the Dane County area. Please read the information and come to the Fitchburg City Hall on Wednesday, September 27th to hear the West Waubesa Preservation Coalition's proposal for an alternative to development in Fitchburg. Especially to residents of Fitchburg, a contact to your alderman regarding this development would be appreciated. If you know anybody who lives in fitchburg, please forward this to them. Visit www.westwaubesa.org to read about their alternative proposal for the land of the Northeast Neighborhood.
--- Phyllis Hasbrouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you ride the Capital Cities Trail by Lake Farm Park and the Lussier Heritage Center? The park you love is in danger. The city of Fitchburg has hired an engineering firm to study whether they should develop their northeast neighborhood, located one mile to the west. The draft plan is now complete, and will be made public on Sept. 27. > > A Fitchburg development may severely impact these > parks. > > Sources who have seen the plan say it contains > office parks between Hwy MM and Hwy 14, and a dense, mixed-use development of retail and residential between MM and Larsen Rds. > > How will this development one mile away affect Lake > Farm Park and the Capital Springs Centennial State Park? > > There are only 3 ways out of the NE Neighborhood > towards Madison. > > There's Hwy MM, and East Clayton Rd., which feeds > into MM, which then feeds into Hwy 14. Hwy 14 is already heavy at rush hours. Add thousands more cars and it will be stop and go! > > Many clever commuters will take the only other way > out: > > east on Meadowview and north past the parks and > Heritage Center. How lovely will that area be when it is filled with impatient commuters? How safe will the Capital Cities Bike Trail be at the road crossing > by the Lussier Heritage Center? The Fitchburg Planning Commission and Common > Council will vote on this plan for the Northeast Neighborhood before the end of this year. We need to let them hear now that we are opposed. Here are 3 > opportunities. > > Sat., Sept 9: Join our bus tour > > of Troy Gardens (an exciting example of an > alternative to sprawl) and > the wetlands of Dunn, site of the hatchery for the > Northern Pike of > Lake Waubesa (endangered by the proposed > development). The luxury > bus leaves at 10 a.m. sharp from the Fitchburg City > Hall, and returns > between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. The price is $8 to $12 > (sliding scale) > and includes a sack lunch. > > > > Wed., Sept. 27: Come to the Fitchburg City Hall! > 4-6:30 p.m. Come and hear the draft plan to > turn farmland to > sprawl-land, and register your opposition. > > > > 7-8 p.m. Come and hear Prof. Cal DeWitt and > Butch Powell, Board members of the West Waubesa Preservation Coalition, make preservations to the Committee of the Whole of Fitchburg as to why the Northeast Neighborhood should not be developed, and what kind of development would benefit all of Fitchburg. A huge audience will have a huge effect on the alders. Please come. > > To donate time, money or knowledge, contact the > West Waubesa Preservation Coalition at (608)223-9571 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can help us stop this sprawl development if you act now! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
