Susan Webel and her horse

The issues Webel raises about HCAs, and her lack of access to such land, is a red herring, and this argument merely plays into the hands of developers. Webel is simply exaggerating when she claims that land is being closed to her and her horse. With tens of thousand of acres available for her to play on, not just county land, but also city and federal lands, she can walk and hike and ride as much as she likes, in fact, she physically could never access all of the open public lands in the county if she spent every day of the year doing so. So what is her real agenda?

And the land wasn't bought just for your recreation missy. The vast majority of tax payers, surveys have shown, want Open Space to slow growth. If you acknowledged that this was one of the purpose of open space, then maybe you wouldn't seem like such a complainer. But its hard when you fail to face reality of why Open Space was created, and it is doubtful that your type ever supported the open space programs during its inception, that would be 1967. All of you who don't vote for open space taxes end up supporting to some extent, development of the land.

Remember, Open Space was never intended as a recreation program, it is merely a side benefit of the program, and environmental values also have to be considered. You didn't have access to the land before it was bought, so speaking of lost access is just "bs". So if you want the land to have houses on it, then vote against the tax. If you want to live in a Highlands Ranch type community, with no trails anywhere, then support Webel's argument.