Item #1 made me do a double-take. It sounds anti-bat. Perhaps it could be worded in a different way?
George On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Frank Binney <[email protected]> wrote: > *Subject: *Urgent: Bracken Cave bat colony needs your help > > Dear Friends of Bracken Cave Reserve and BCI, > > I’m writing today to ask for urgent action to protect Bracken Cave > Preserve from imminent danger. Crescent Hills is a proposed 3800 home > subdivision along the Preserve’s southern boundary. > > This development is a threat to conservation, the local economy and public > health: > > > > 1. 10 million bats will fly directly over 10 thousand residents each > night, creating an unnecessary risk to pets and people from the contact > with sick or injured bats. > > 2. Security threats to the cave and reserve will dramatically > increase, as will the cost to guard against trespassers which could destroy > the colony with one careless or intentional act. > > 3. 3800 homes on 1500 acres are high density ¼ acre lots on top of > important aquifer recharge zone. > > 4. This is known Golden-cheecked Warbler habitat and a sensitive > karst area. > > *If you live locally*: > > *Please join us* as Citizens to Be Heard to speak or just bear witness. > On Wednesday, May 22nd at 6: pm City Council has a B Session that includes > “Citizens to be Heard”. This is an opportunity for individual citizens to > address the City Council. The meeting takes place at 100 Military Plaza, > San Antonio and starts at 6 p.m. > If you are coming, please notify the Mayor’s Office and your Council > representative and ask that they stay to hear the people. > If you are interested in speaking, instructions for sign-up are: Citizens > must register between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on the day of the meeting in order > to speak. The link to register online < > http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=3010357&msgid=377992&act=B3IY&c=431426&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sanantonio.gov%2Fyourcity%2Fmeetingappear.aspx> > becomes available on Wednesday at 8 a.m. at this website: ( > http://www.sanantonio.gov/yourcity/meetingappear.aspx). Alternatively, > between 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., citizens can register in person at the > Registration Desk on the afternoon of the meeting. Citizens are given 3 > minutes each to speak about their issue, and groups of 3 or more are given > a total of 9 minutes. You can yield your time, if you like, to someone who > may have a longer presentation. > *If you cannot attend* - Please contact the Mayor and your City Council > Representative < > http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=3010357&msgid=377992&act=B3IY&c=431426&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sanantonio.gov%2Fcouncil> > to voice your concerns. (http://www.sanantonio.gov/council < > http://www.sanantonio.gov/council> ) > > > > *Please write* - help us reach out to the San Antonio Planning Commission > and City Council with your letters and emails. Ask them to: > > Decrease density to 1-3 acres tracks which is compatible with surrounding > neighborhoods, or > > prohibit residential development within a certain distance of the cave. > (SA City Council created a 3 mile no-residential development zone around > the Toyota plant.) > > *Please forward this to others > * > > *If you do not live locally, and if you do:* BCI will be grateful for all > letters of support, expressing the importance of the Reserve, the cave and > the colony. We would also appreciate your suggestions and especially > contacts with anyone who may have influence in or on the City Council > and/or Mayor’s office. > BCI will soon have add special webpage with more information about and > regular updates on the situation and what more you can do to help save, > what a National Geographic photographer has called, “One of the world’s top > ten wildlife spectacles, and the only one in the United States.” > www.batcon.org/Bracken <http://www.batcon.org/Bracken> > Sincere thanks, > James > *James E. Eggers > **Director of Education > *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>> > (512) 327-9721 ext. 12 > <https://www.batcon.org/> > > *P.O. Box 162603, Austin, TX 78716-2603 > 500 Cap. of Texas Hwy. N., Austin, TX 78746-3302 * > > *(512) 327-9721 Fax(512) 327-9724* > *The content of this email is intended only for the use of the > above-named addressee and may contain information that is confidential, > proprietary, and/or legally privileged. Please notify the sender if you > received this email in error. > * > > > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message > >
