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rgold
Aug 1, 2011, 3:48 AM
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rangerrob wrote: Sonds to me like there will be some quality weekend houses for rent within walking distance of the cliffs! How many here have seen the eyesore that that old mine is?? How could a development look worse?
Whoa Rob, this isn't a few weekend houses, it is 7,000 houses packed together as well as facilities and a college campus of some kind. This will push the city practically right up to the canyons. You're going to have 20,000 or so people who are now in "walking distance of the cliffs" as you put it. It doesn't really take any imagination to conjure up the problems this will cause, graffiti, garbage dumping, defecation, crime, not to mention things like the increased demand for water. Not to mention that a whole bunch of Las Vegas developments are currently in various stages of failure, with some left bulldozed but unfinished because of a lack of buyers.
It is true that the current gypsum mine appears as a white scar on the hillside, but that will be nothing compared to a small city up there.
As for the idea that viewsheds don't matter to wilderness areas---I can't believe you really believe this--it is in any case moot, because the developers themselves, Gypsum Resources LLC, have devoted an entire section of their proposal to an analysis of viewshed impact, complete with fancy GIS mapping to illustrate what will be visible from where. In other words, they have (I think hypocritically) made the viewshed issue a critical one in their own documentation, and therefore made the issue an appropriate one to argue about even for those who really think that pushing the city to the very brink of wild lands is of no consequence.
I characterized the Gypsum Resources document as hypocritical because their analysis is based on what will be visible from roadways below the level of the development. Motorists will be spared jarring views, but hikers and climbers up in the canyons and walls will of course see the whole mess, as well as having to deal with the tsunami of urban crap that will inundate the area if that thing is ever built.
(This post was edited by rgold on Aug 1, 2011, 4:23 AM)
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Post edited by rgold
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