19-0917_NUVIS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING_F1a_Correspondence_29/17/2019
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Subject: FW: Agenda Item Fla CSJC City Council September 17, 2019
From: Roger Butow
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Subject: Agenda Item Fla CSJC City Council September 17, 2019
Honorable Mayor Maryott & Distinguished Council members:
I attended the 1 st of 2 workshops hosted by the City a while back. I was blown away that such a simple gesture,
such a minor act of reparation for a just, worthy and long overdue purpose, could be met with citizen's disdain.
Crass promotional commerce like "glamping" on sacred land? This is a form of social injustice, a denial of
ethnic rights that should be remedied. Justice delayed is justice denied.
My preference as stated was that the Native American's merit the entire parcel, not a token portion. They know
how to be non -abusive eco -stewards. The Village proper should be surrounded by indigenous, drought tolerant
plantings, thus re-creating high value ESHA habitat. The fauna will repopulate what the former owners plowed
under.
Couldn't that natural habitat/environs around the village be used as credited mitigation for other land use
projects in the City? Maybe require future developers of modest -to -monolithic sized projects pay earmarked
fees to whittle down the self-imposed debt incurred originally by the City voters?
Grade the land slightly concave. What rain or onsite watering using recycled supplies takes place will be
retained, percolate downward if settling depressions and swales are created, lessen erosion and recharge the
area's groundwater. Eventually any excess will drain sub -surface into the lower San Juan Basin, modestly
recharging the City's wells.
The Village should seek LEED certification, a designed green installation. They could do onsite reclamation,
thus avoid wasting precious imported and delivered supplies of both potable and reclaimed water used at the
facility. The plants contiguous with the Village could be watered using this so-called "greywater. "
Tall, native shrubs and trees in a modest perimeter around the Village would also act as light screens so that
nocturnal fauna feel safe in their nesting, foraging and migration corridors at night. They'd act as windbreaks
too.
Couldn't solar panels be cleverly disguised/shielded from sight? If there are carports so that shade for visitors is
created, use the roofs of them, they're great energy collection devices. These panels with attendant batteries
could power lighting + heat & vent.
This doesn't require rocket science, the technologies are existent, not science fiction. This would be a showcase
learning center, an example of collaboration. Blending, melding the cultural history, the old ways with the new,
plus significantly reduce maintenance/utility costs.
If designed properly, food and herbs grown there could be on display, used for both NA rituals but also periodic
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feasts for visitors. This would be a great educational and promotional opportunity, an attraction that allows non-
NA's to experience what "Living off the land" actually looks and tastes like.
Roger E. Butow
Executive Director
roact-butownclean-water-now.org
Clean Water Now (Est. 1998)
wwiv.c Ica n -water -n ow.or
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