Tomorrow, 3 items on the City Council agenda (5A, B and C), if passed, will in essence finish the work begun with the Scenic Corridor petition. The actual language of the petition cannot come before Council until April. If tomorrow's ordinances are passed, then the petition item for April will be deleted as a matter of procedure.
The Franklin Mountains Wilderness Coalition, which sponsored the petition I wrote and the petition drive that I spearheaded, sent out this notice:
"On Tuesday, 5 March, City Council will decide whether to
transfer 658 acres of City owned land for inclusion in the Franklin Mountains
State Park (FMSP). Please plan to attend and contact Mayor Cook and
all City Council members to express your support for our State Park.
Contact information is at the City website.
"Transferring 658 acres of City
land to the FMSP (owned/managed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
[TPWD]) unquestionably benefits our park and preserves some of the
Transmountain Scenic Corridor. Many El Pasoans demonstrated their support
for conservation of this City-owned land when they signed the Franklin
Mountains Wilderness Coalition (FMWC) petition, first circulated in August
2010. Please encourage City officials to approve this transfer.
"The land transfer is agenda item 5C.
You can read the agenda and the detailed attachment on the city website:
You may sign-up to speak on any agenda item by contacting
the City Clerk at cityclerk@elpasotexas.gov."
The notice does not include the fact that, along with the preservation of 658 acres of land, additional land making up the arroyos will be preserved by smart code re-zoning in 5B. In addition, the entire process means that a vastly better Northwest Master Plan has been created using smart code. City Development will be adding GI/LID features - a new tool in their tool box because of the petitioners efforts.
I plan to say a few words to Council following the presentation by City Planner Carlos Gallinar.
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