ROYAL GORGE IS GOOD AT COLORING BETWEEN THE LINES- ALL THE LINES

It's pretty clear by now that Royal Gorge LLC (RG) doesn't play well with others.  Remember last summer when they whined and said they tried to get along, (Kirk Syme's tiff in the Sierra Sun that 'nobody liked them',  where he dissed even groups such as MAPF and DSAA who actually seemed to like them)? Remember how RG tried to identify "stakeholder" groups that they could manipulate into signing a Memorandum of Understanding so that it would be okey-dokey to pave Donner Summit?  Too bad for RG that a large majority of those identified groups politely declined to be used as shills for what, if it is approved by Supervisor Kranz and his fellow supervisors, will be one of the largest, if not the largest development at the crest of the Sierra Nevada.

Lately though, RG has shown that even if they can't play well with others, they can color between the lines--absolutely all the lines.  If you look at this overlay of their proposed development on an aerial google earth photo (www.SaveOurSummit.org/development.html#subdivision_map), you'll see that they are coloring in every bit of even marginally developable land on "Lake Camp" and "Ski Camp."  They brag they're saving so much open space, but most of the open space was not only unbuildable, but located on lands not even close to their proposed development.  In "Lake Camp" the one flat area they're not filling is a wetland/fen, an environmental treasure that besides nurturing rare plants, would grow more lawsuits than an Iowa cornfield grows corn in July if RG even sneezed at it.

If you look at the actually buildable land in "Lake Camp" and "Ski Camp," then using RG's figures in the specific plan (don't give them an open space pass for private land between buildings, or the two artificial lakes that will destroy real open space, or the bottom of Serene Lakes, which they've included) they're actually building on 86% of the buildable land in "Lake Camp" and "Ski Camp".  

Heck, RG doesn't have to worry about coloring within the lines.  Remember when you were a kid, and you had that project where you colored a piece of paper all over, and then covered your scribbles with a thick layer of black crayola?  And then you scratched out some of the black to reveal the colors beneath?  That's what Royal Gorge Cross Country Ski Resort will be like when all  RG's development  is done.  What was once a beautiful snowy, white dream of a ski resort will be covered in layers of buildings and roads, and if you try to scratch down to see what was once there, you'll find no beautiful white snow, and no beautiful colors.  Only a small number of green trees, as  so many will be cut down for roads, and parking lots, and artificial lakes, and buildings.  The only  true green yielded from this development will be the hard, cold cash RG and their investors anticipate from the destruction of an iconic cross country resort.  Fade to black....