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Volume 7, Issue 34 - Feature #756

Vallecito (Pine River) Dam...

Here is that Durango Herald News article re: <A HREF="http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/05/news050826_3.htm">Vallecito?s future resembles past</a> that appeared August 26, 2005, written by Lisa Meerts-Brandsma | Herald Staff Writer -- "Lifestyle needs competed with economic needs Thursday night as residents and county planners discussed whether to drop allowable building densities on an acre of land from two units to one in the Vallecito District Land Use Plan..... 'What can the valley sustain?' asked Hamilton Wright, who lives in Vallecito. He said that Vallecito has only one road leading in and out of the area. During the Missionary Ridge Fire, bumper-to-bumper traffic on County Road 501 slowed the evacuation. He fears continued growth in Vallecito will aggravate the problem....."<BR><BR> This NW Okie is PROUD to be considered a <b>Vallecito Hippie</b>! !

NW Okie - 2005-08-29 16:57:31

Thanks for the lovely story on Vallecito. The Friday morning front page of the Durango Herald did not state the situation correctly for me -- things will not stay the same but the doors (floodgates?) are in the process of being pried open. Virginia's comment about Custer's development bringing in a higher class of people has irritated some locals to the point where they are now saying "not one dime will go to Virginia's Steakhouse..." The support of locals across ALL seasons is, I think, key to the restaurant's success. I saw a couple of bald eagles along the lake Thursday. Don't we live in interesting times?

Marilyn McCord - 2005-08-27 15:47:07

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