City Council June 1, 2021 Addendum #1 Comments Received Since Packet Published

City Council
              June 1, 2021

            Addendum #1
Comments Received Since Packet Published

From:              Rita Vali
To:                "Mark Cathcart"; City Council
Cc:                Robyn Rathweg
Subject:           Louisville Underpass Conceptual Designs
Date:              Tuesday, June 1, 2021 10:16:34 AM
Attachments:       image001.png

Hello,
I am of the artists who is completing the tile murals art installation at the McCaslin Blvd Underpass at
Harper Lake.
It’s always been a goal of mine to add art to pedestrian tunnels as a way to enhance our community.
We are very pleased with the tile murals we are installing in the prescribed areas inside this tunnel.
However, when we were designing our art installation, we were limited to where and what to install
based on the existing tunnel structural features like flagstone veneer, textured concrete at the
entrances and existing signage.

When new tunnels are being designed in Louisville, artwork should be part of the conceptual design.
 This would allow for artwork which best fits the given site. The artwork could be comprehensive,
have a larger impact and be integrated into the tunnel. Scope, size, and cost could be optimized if
artwork considered early on.
I’ve seen tunnels (one in Boulder) where the concrete is textured, stamped and colored and the
artwork covers the entire tunnel giving people a big interactive art experience while traveling
through the tunnel. The scale of the art could be grand and the final artwork would be an integral
part of each tunnel.

I hope if these tunnel projects move forward, that thoughtfully designed artwork is planned from the
onset. I love Louisville, and would love to see more public art in our city and byways as it so enriches
our community and city.

Rita Vali – ceramic artist
@ritavaliceramic
www.ritavali.com

From: Mark Cathcart 
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2021 4:51 PM
To: 'The Designosaur' ; gfields@fieldscapes.com; rvali@comcast.net;
worldofrobyn.rcr@gmail.com
Subject: FW: Underpasses, FYI

Visual Artists!!

Louisville city council is proposing a bond issue to build six more underpasses in Louisville. On

Tuesday 6/1 at a meeting starting at 6pm, The Director of Public Works, Kurt Kowar will be walking
the council through the locations and looking for discussion and input on how to prioritize etc. There
are no decisions to be made on Tuesday, it’s just a discussion.

As the chair of the Louisville Cultural Council(LCC) public-art subcommittee propose to speak. I will
ask Director Kowar, and the council, to include public art as part of each underpass design process.
This would be much more effective and also make putting the art in underpasses much easier to
fund. Heck, if you are spending a proposed $50m to build six underpasses, add $120-150k to add art
is small beer.

You all have experience in this field, I don’t. If you feel it would be worth joining the meeting and
speaking, the public input section will be before Director Kowar speaks, so earlier rather than later. If
you know other artists or Louisville residents that would be interested, please feel free to let them
know. Each person can speak for a maximum of 3-minurtes.

Copied below is the email I sent to LCC 2021 Chair, Leah Franks.

Meeting Agenda > https://www.louisvilleco.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/31373
Director Kowar Presentation > https://www.louisvilleco.gov/home/showdocument?
id=31371&t=637578000003910542

++Mark.
https://ctproduced.com
https://markcathcart.com/about/

From: Mark Cathcart 
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2021 4:34 PM
To: 'leah.franks@gmail.com' 
Subject: Underpasses, FYI

The city is in the middle of discussing building six new underpasses. I only know about this because I
subscribe and read the city council meetings and agendas.

This Tuesday the director of public works is going to present on SUBJECT: DISCUSSION/DIRECTION –
UNDERPASS CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS

This is to let you know that I plan to speak, and to encourage the city council and director Kowar to
include art as part of the design, not an after-thought that the LCC has to scramble to get permission
to do, and then find funding. Doing it that way is also suboptimal in terms of what art can be
included.

++Mark.
https://ctproduced.com
https://markcathcart.com/about/

From:              sherry sommer
To:                City Council
Subject:           Appreciate the Pride Flags
Date:              Tuesday, June 1, 2021 11:46:13 AM

Dear Members of City Council,

I appreciate the way you’ve chosen to recognize Pride Month.

The groupings of small flags make a point in an understated way which really suits Louisville. They’re also very
cheerful.

Flags (of any kind) can be very polarizing symbols; I had not before realized how much presentation impacts the
effect.

I hope you consider having similar displays for other commemorations in future.

Sherry Sommer

From:           Sophie Dunbar
Subject:        Boulder Valley GA Plane Issues
Date:           Tuesday, June 1, 2021 2:53:10 PM

Hello and good afternoon,
I am one of your constituents and I have lived in the Boulder Valley area of Colorado for
decades. I am writing to you because of what appears to be unchecked and unregulated growth
with flight schools and touring planes at the Boulder Municipal Airport (BDU) and the Rocky
Mountain Metropolitan Airport (RMMA), and the following:
1. The interactions between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Paul Anslow,
Director of the RMMA in addition to the virtual biased silence over the matter with Boulder's
airport manager Dennis Godfrey.
2. The blatant disregard of flight schools and pilots to times and days and the flight elevation
they fly over homes, schools, and parks as they grow their businesses as they see fit at the cost
and risk of thousands of homeowners.
3. Leaded gas/noise pollution.
  
There are deep, widespread, several city-wise concerns. We need help from officials such as
yourself as our local airport managers/officials struggle to or do not want to effort mitigations
or homeowner protections.
In accordance to FAA procedures for mitigations, a formal Roundtable group has been formed
and has been meeting regularly, composed of city officials from Superior, Louisville, Boulder
county commissioners and more.
Paul Anslow, the manager of RMMA made his stance clear when he stated and denied that
there is no noise issue in the area in one of the meetings. This is patently false.
In a “hot mic” moment, Mr. Anslow said that he was sick of putting up with “shit” from
members of the Roundtable. Newsflash- this is not how we want to spend our time either but
we aren't the ones jamming the skies with chronic engine noise and pollution 14 hours
day/7days a week. A recording of the April 2021 meeting, including Mr. Anslow’s
presentation and “hot mic” moment, can be found here: https://www.jeffco.us/4235/CNR-
Meetings.
Boulders airport manager Denis Godfrey + city officials simply barely or don't participate in
any discussions nor have they offered any acknowledgement of the concerns.
Clearly there is an industry of denial, insult, and bias for itself and homeowners are suffering
ALL across the Boulder valley in cities and counties.
Current impacts and growing issues are:
1. Leaded gas fumes over high-density homes, parks, schools and businesses. Boulder alone
sees up to 100 + laps of low-flying GA's in NE Boulder a day. They start at 6 AM and go until
well up to 9PM. That is a lot of leaded gas and a lot of noise, and for Boulder city, WELL
beyond their 8-5 PM touch-and-go training noise abatement.
2. Safety: these planes are both training and touring over schools, dense homes, businesses
and parks over and over and in are indeed flying well below 1,000 feet- as low as 500 feet
over dense populations for touch-and-go training. Touring planes tour over the heart of
Boulder ripping up the skies merely 800-1,000 feet above ground level. How is this even
legal!?
3. Noise: Boulder city has a "voluntary noise abatement" of which no one in the flight industry
is observing; from the local businesses to the RMMA overflow. It includes "limited to no
flying over sensitive areas in town" to "no touch-and-goes after 5pm or before 8AM". This is
increasingly getting ignored and the City and Boulder airport manager Dennis Godfrey are
doing little to nothing to mitigate this. If they are, there is no evidence of any such effort. In

fact the typical response is "there is nothing we can do" as the issue grows.Touch-and-goes
now start at 6AM, and go until 9PM almost DAILY. Pilots are also expanding training flights
to be over "red sensitive" coded areas the city laid out.
4. Pollution. Here we are trying to fund billions in the State of CO towards EV cars and
reduce emissions and yet the skies are tripling what ground transport is producing.
As we all know by now, Colorado is on the map for being famous for having some of the
worst air in the country. Having dozens of GA planes spending 13 hours in the sky to lap and
loop absolutely impacts air quality. Nearly daily we have unhealthy ozone between Denver to
Fort Collins. This is not "traffic" as many folks have shifted to home offices. How can GA
planes not be considered a huge contributor to pollution?

Since I have moved here I have had no issue with planes or the airport until recent years and
this is a direct result of flight schools and touring planes. There are days we literally can't and
don't catch a break from buzzing engines- now sometimes 4-6 at one time- this is more brutal
and yet less regulated than a commercial airport.

We have screenshots of the skies virtually looking like a ball of yarn all day long in Boulder
Valley. I will include a screenshot example of ONE MOMENT in time of what is happening
and it's only 9AM on a Sat. We have already had a solid 3 hours of flight training over our
homes. The Boulder Valley has been covered with leaded gas and noise pollution by
flight schools since 6 AM. We need help. Please reach out if you have any questions or need
more data, there is abundant evidence of how bombarded we are by flight schools 15 hours a
day 7 days a week.

Legal and factual references:

With the amount of leaded gas planes crammed over Boulder Valley, Colorado and
particularly the GA industry should be ashamed of this map. Only 1 unleaded gas station in
the whole state seen here.
http://flyunleaded.com/mapusairports.html?fbclid=
IwAR0XXKm14nArLSS94gxTMF6Y36PHWGnZdfS-T9H8mTzoXSafJlRcv8yp0zs

Here's a great article on leaded gas concerns from GA crafts and one muni getting shut down
over rampant exposure.
https://sanjosespotlight.com/silicon-valley-advocates-of-reid-hillview-airport-closure-face-
opposition/?fbclid=IwAR0nmkp99X0g8-NiJEgQtEjgBgPGLYtSN0J3eYFBKsLPV2tF-
wWatYJjH0E

Here's a court case that won the right to regulate (ban even) stage 2 GA planes.
https://archive.naplesnews.com/news/state/stage-2-jets-not-expected-to-return-to-naples-
during-marco-airport-shutdown-ep-313153816-341496961.html/

Here's an airport that is actually trying to mitigate plane travel and noise and how they go
about it. (as we can see the adage from the industry and airport managers "there's nothing we
can do" is 100% not true)
https://airport.westchestergov.com/about-us/environmental-management-system/noise-faqs?
fbclid=IwAR1v6pQT5r07g0lhEBSbGMUN_2XU2zJAgxP19vwtFPDkqlZNOWR1RykA8So

Here's an April 2021 case in which the local sheriff filed criminal charges on a pilot low
flying in Sag Harbor.

https://www.27east.com/east-hampton-press/police-confirm-theyll-press-charges-against-
pilot-who-buzzed-sag-harbor-1770331/?fbclid=IwAR13zMPka2gHZrk4GLaMVl-
UoHyxxX0jVzZduF-AihhZHKQ1mZe9Yy9-5Nc

2 screenshots of a single moment in time attached in email.  
1. 24 GA flight school planes lapping and looping in a 20 mile radius at one time and many
more on the ground cuing up to join them. This is far more insanity than DIA. Homeowners
are getting hammered in this area.
2. 19 planes by 9AM already at one time just in the Boulder Valley.