{"id":805417,"date":"2020-03-18T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380666"},"modified":"2020-03-18T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:19:53","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-i-would-like-to-live-on-the-fiester-preserve-parcel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-i-would-like-to-live-on-the-fiester-preserve-parcel\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: I would like to live on the Fiester Preserve parcel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019d love to live on the Fiester parcel. No, not in a tent on the bleak scrap of land it\u2019s become, but in a luxury senior community close to services I\u2019ll need. Younger workforce neighbors? A blessing.<\/p>\n

You want me to move to Denver, instead?<\/p>\n

Sincere conservation pleas by insular Bill\u2019s Ranch bystanders may mask feelings of \u201cnot in my backyard!\u201d Indeed, a buffer between them and the County Commons is desirable. But without trees, that land provides little visual or sound screening. Instead of waiting for saplings to mature, astute \u201cRanchers\u201d might imagine a creatively designed and landscaped cushion of beauty, even conserving spring-blooming pasqueflowers. If done right, I project rising Bill\u2019s Ranch property values.<\/p>\n

The parties should settle, achieving a principled and pragmatic land swap: Colorado Open Lands gets a larger, natural, appropriate parcel. And residents get perfectly sited senior and workforce housing.<\/p>\n

That compromise would not establish legally controlling precedent that conservation easements aren\u2019t worth protecting. The singular facts here won\u2019t be duplicated elsewhere. We\u2019d all get to hug trees in an area with real conservation value, where vehicles on the soon-to-be expanded highway wouldn\u2019t disrupt our solitude.<\/p>\n

I believe that establishing the conservation easement in 1998 was unwise. Some reasonably disagree. But should our government never be able to move beyond any decision when citizens\u2019 needs \u2014 and environmental conditions \u2014 have significantly changed? Our laws appropriately make it hard to remove such an easement. Here, it\u2019s worth it.<\/p>\n

The parcel is a sliver of mostly scrub-covered flatland, surrounded by a busy highway, public service and medical facilities, the well-ordered Peak One Circle neighborhood, and the idiosyncratic potpourri of Bill\u2019s Ranch shacks, cabins and villas. At the south end is Miner\u2019s Creek trailhead, leading to the Ranchers\u2019 true next door natural treasure: the vast White River National Forest.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019d love to live on the Fiester parcel. No, not in a tent on the bleak scrap of land it\u2019s become, but in a luxury senior community close to services I\u2019ll need. Younger workforce neighbors? A blessing. You want me to move to Denver, instead? Sincere conservation pleas by insular Bill\u2019s Ranch bystanders may mask […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 01:01:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}