Get An Uncompromised Bill To The Floor - Michael Graham, Portland

Dear Senator Kruse,

This message is to implore you to stand up to the opponents of Senate Bill 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.

For the last 30 years we have seen the Metolius Basin community slowly grow and the growth has been relatively well managed and it's effects on the basin have been minimal.

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. This pristine basin would be overwhelmed and it's unique character, a precious possession of ALL THE STATE AND, INDEED, THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, would be forever lost. All for a pitiful modest inflow of tax dollars to the county.

Please, as Vice Chair, work 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