Keep Up The Fight - Michael Graham, Portland

Dear Senator Westlund,

I want to thank you for your steadfast efforts on behalf of SB 30, a measure to protect the precious Metolius basin from rapacious development by landowners who have cowed the Jefferson County into submission and whose only interest is in creating obscene profits for themselves and their cronies.

The proposed development of no less than 3000 homes on on the 3500 acres of the Colson property and over 300 units on the 640 acres on the Dutch/Pacific property are simply outrageous. The destruction of wildlife habitat, the creation of colossal traffic overloading of the roads, the additional pollution created by so many new residences in the now pristine area are mind-boggling. All for a pitiful modest inflow of tax dollars to the county.

Please keep up the fight to get the others on the Senate Committee on Education and General Government to understand the harmful effects obstruction of this bill will cause and get an uncompromised bill out to the floor for a vote which I believe will pass.

The Metolius basin is a unique and precious asset to the state and the country...we cannot let it be destroyed by greedy, unthinking and uncaring so-called "developers".

Michael H. Graham, MD
Portland