10/21/2024
I’m not usually one to post controversial issues but today I am going to stand up for MY HOME and OUR COMMUNITY.
Please read this post in its entirety and if you feel called to do so please sign the petition. You DO NOT have to be a resident to sign.
Here is the link to the petition AGAINST putting a skii resort in the beautiful, wild and rugged Ruby Mountains. https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ruby-mountain-re-zoning-could-allow-for-commercial?
These are my thoughts on the matter and if you have different thoughts I respect those but will strongly disagree that this will be a good thing for our community.
📣A call to action
Public lands are dwindling with open space zoning declining rapidly at a rate of 6,000 acres a day. That amounts to roughly 2 million acres a year.
Our community is now threatened to become another statistic with the zoning request of 3,197 acres to change from open zoning to agricultural-residential zoning. Worse is that 2,296 of these acres are nestled IN the beautiful Ruby mountains which is the backyard of the Spring Creek, Lamoille and Elko community.
These are our wildly rugged beautiful mountains that called us to live here. These mountains persuaded us to put roots down, raise our children, and work to help our neighbors. The rubies are my home. They are special to so many and have been threatened countless times by people trying to change them. The thing that makes them so special is the rugged beauty of open space. I call for you to fight for our community. To fight for the rubies. To fight for our way of life, our western culture, and our neighbors who will be directly affected by a zoning change.
I strongly oppose this for so many reasons including wildlife displacement, water, soil quality, taxes, noise, excessive lights, traffic, roads, and a completely inadequate healthcare infrastructure in this community to handle an influx of people.
We are a family that skis and snowboards. However I do not want it in my backyard (see photo below of proposed land).
In addition to my concerns we should all be concerned by the fact that according to the California Businessman that now owns this land , this terrain “ skews expert and rugged... there's a ton of cliffs, there's a ton of very steep terrain".
This location will not stay a small resort if the only runs are “expert level”. With the exception of few people in this area that can ski these types of runs, most people here will be beginners and families. We are a family oriented community and should be very worried what our future holds with this development.
Preserve the Rubies. Preserve our water, our roads, our safety and our community.
Sincerely,
-A Spring Creek homeowner on the list of 30 closest residents
-A Spring Creek small Business owner
-A Flight Nurse serving our community
-A mother raising her children in this community
