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Started by Don Robinson
Fri, 10 Nov 1995 00:00
Alexander Dawson has a Proposal You Should See
Author: Don Robinson
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 00:00
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This is posted for a friend. Please direct responses to him and not to me. His address is shown below. Thanks. ************************************************************************ Alexander Dawson has a Proposal You Should See A proposal put forth by the Alexander Dawson Foundation (ADF) comes in front of the Boulder County Land Use Board (LUB) on Wednesday, November 15, sometime after 1:30 p.m. If you are a parent of children at Alexander Dawson School (ADS) or may send children to ADS in the future, attending this meeting should be a high priority. If you are a Boulder County taxpayer concerned with educational quality or possible legal liabilities this proposal may introduce, you should also attend. If you can't attend but would like to convey concerns or questions, I would be happy to carry your letter to the LUB meeting on Wednesday. If so, please state which of the above groups you fall into. Requesting that the LUB table consideration of the proposal to allow adequate review by all concerned couldn't hurt. To prepare for the LUB meeting, standard procedures regarding communications about this proposal have been followed. However, the parties that will be most affected by it have been left out of the process altogether--namely, the ADS students and their parents. Since these parents pay private tuition dollars to send their children to ADS, they are also arguably the most interested in the outcome of this process. This proposal is about neither a residential development nor a standard commercial development though it contains elements of both. It's about a private school with no oversight by the State Board of Education. ADS is rooted in this county and hopefully provides fruits to us. Schools can have very long respectable histories, they can be embarrassing failures, or languish somewhere in between. You should ask yourself which type you support, and take appropriate measures. This proposal needs to be evaluated as a special case. It has potential impacts for far too many people to be handled following just the standard procedures mentioned above. Its impacts, both short- and long-term, need to be understood fully by all affected parties before enactment. Discussion encouraged, but please email or better yet fax me any letters you wish passed on to the board, since I don't get this newsgroup and this post is being performed by a friend. Respectfully and sincerely, Mark S. Wroblewski, 10020 Phillips Road, Lafayette CO 80026 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Wroblewski markwrob@btc.adaptec.com Senior ASIC Engineer (303) 516-4730 fax 581-1088 Adaptec Boulder Technology Center Disclaimer: Adaptec knows I have 6150 Lookout Road opinions, I dispense them for Boulder, CO 80026 USA free, and they're worth every penny. **************************************************************************** -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Don Robinson (303) 440-7997 x128 Internet: donr@deico.com Oasix Inc./DEI, Boulder, Colorado UUCP: ...uunet!deico!donr * I'd rather be roddin',brewin',skiin',shootin',huntin',offroadin',campin'... *
Re: Alexander Dawson has a Proposal You Should See
Author: Don Robinson
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:00
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A reader of this newsgroup item asks a reasonable question: Thad Smith (thads@csn.net) wrote: :> [Long post, telling us that this proposal is important, omitted] :> :> So what IS the proposal? Not many people are going to be motivated :> to attend if they have no idea what it is? :> :> Thad So here I give a summary of the proposal, and general areas of concern with it: The proposal being put forward by the Alexander Dawson Foundation (ADF) regards several development projects at the Alexander Dawson School (ADS) site, located west of HWY 287, south of Lookout Road, west of Erie in eastern Boulder County. The proposal seeks approval from Boulder County to construct a large gymnasium and new athletic fields refurbish the existing gymnasium, creating a dedicated performing arts center build additions to several existing buildings in the "core campus" construct an elementary school outside of the "core campus" In addition, the proposal requests that the student limit at the school be raised from 300 to 450 with the addition of the elementary school. While growth at the school is not a bad thing per se (IMHO), I and others who have had a chance to see the proposal believe some important concerns regarding the proposal have not been adequately addressed by the ADF. They include safety for foot and pedestrian traffic adequate space for elementary and middle school facilities including indoor and outdoor areas location of borders between ADS and Boulder County Open Space, and the possibility of Legal Liability for the County (read, its taxpayers) arising from student traffic THROUGH COUNTY OPEN SPACE AREAS between the upper and lower campuses at ADS the elimination of future expansion sites at ADS, meaning that the ADF is painting ADS into a corner as far as future buildings are concerned I could go on a great length about these issues, but I suggest interested parties contact the ADF and/or the Boulder County Land Use Board for more details on the proposal. Remember to ask the Land Use Board to table considering the proposal if you need more time to digest the information in the proposal. Thanks for your attention, Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Wroblewski markwrob@btc.adaptec.com Senior ASIC Engineer (303) 516-4730 fax 581-1088 Adaptec Boulder Technology Center Disclaimer: Adaptec knows I have 6150 Lookout Road opinions, I dispense them for Boulder, CO 80026 USA free, and they're worth every penny. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Don Robinson (303) 440-7997 x128 Internet: donr@deico.com Oasix Inc./DEI, Boulder, Colorado UUCP: ...uunet!deico!donr * I'd rather be roddin',brewin',skiin',shootin',huntin',offroadin',campin'... *
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