A recent letter (Herald, May 9) was most certainly written by a former advertising person. First off, the Animas Valley proposed RV park will be built on a former gravel pit, not ranch lands.
Having lived in the north valley for 30 plus years, I can attest to the fact that the property in question has never flooded. When it comes to putting nitrates in the water, has the writer talked to the Dalton Ranch golf course groundskeepers?
The writer asks, “What do we get out of it?” A lot of tax dollars going to employee housing and child care is what. The writer must have forgotten that last November, La Plata County voted to change the distribution of the Transient Occupancy Tax (aka the lodgers tax) to 70% earmarked for employee housing and child care. The TOT is what RV owners pay when they rent space.
This is the same group of malcontents who fought the construction of a cellphone tower next door on Sandco’s property saying it would cause property values to drop.
Finally, unlike many out of state developers who will propose a project and make county approval contingent on actually purchasing the property, Roberts has purchased the property on Trimble Lane knowing that the zoning laws would allow the construction of an RV park.
Dennis Pierce
Durango
