[sac-forum] Re: Flatiron and vicinity

Isn’t the Flatiron site in the future Douglas Ranch development?  If so, we
will lose the site completely.

 

Personally, I consider it already lost.  For a 1-hour drive, the light dome
is huge.

 

Matt

 

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From: sac-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sac-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Dan Gruber
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 2:02 PM
To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sac-forum] Flatiron and vicinity

 

The CSC lied yesterday and said viewing at Flatiron would be okay until
midnight. I was there from 4.15 – 4.45 pm and it was completely overcast. I
left when nobody showed up to commiserate with.

 

More interesting were the signs posted all over the place indicating that a
developer wants to amend the local general plan to develop up to 85,000
homes (plus other stuff) on about 25,000 acres running roughly from 335th
Ave. to 370th Ave. and from I – 10 north to the canal. This would bring
development to about 5 miles south of the site. Combined with relentless
development west of the White Tanks (see today’s AZ Republic), this doesn’t
bode well. I wonder how many more years we have for reasonably dark skies at
Flatiron?

 

Happy holidays,

 

Dan

 

PS. If anybody has the week off from work and would like to try observing
later in the week, please let me know.

 

Dan Gruber

HYPERLINK "mailto:dgruber@xxxxxxxxxxxx"dgruber@xxxxxxxxxxxx

home  (480) 951 - 6877

 


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