The board felt it was best to find out where rest of the town stood. As such, Schrichte and his ilk of 'smart growth' proponents are rallying the troops. Door to door. Woody Beardsley, Sprawl Action Center coordinator for CoPIRG, says that Erie is 'as good an example as any of the sprawl problem going on along the whole Front Range. In addition to CoPIRG, Schrichte claims to have town sentiment on his side.
All developers can offer is a lot of houses and pie in the sky.
Like any political campaign, A.G.R.E.E.'s doesn't come without a price. Schrichte says that his group could use monetary support. These developers are going to drop some major dollars. It's been a long, hard two years for Jeff Keller, president of Asphalt Paving Company. He and a team of consultants, engineers and scientists have been working around the clock, spending boatloads of cash in an effort to convince the Jefferson County commissioners to approve a proposal to mine asphalt aggregate from a little valley south of Eldorado Canyon State Park.