The City Council has voted to reject the current transmission line proposal in light of our formal opposition. We remain in communication with local offices to ensure the project does not move forward in any alternative capacity.
July 23, 2017
Final supporters
DON'T LET XCEL CONTINUE TO INDUSTRIALIZE OUR AREA
(Petition is open to all residents 18 or older of the City of Aurora and Arapahoe County, Colorado)
To the Aurora City Council and County Commissioners:
We call on the Aurora City Council and Arapahoe County Commissioners, our elected representatives, to reject all proposed routing of Xcel’s Pawnee to Daniels Park ultra-high-voltage long-distance transmission lines because:
- Xcel had a substation project twice rejected (2011 and 2015) by the City of Thornton. Xcel came back in 2016 with a beautiful community conscious, covered, walled landscaped substation with all lines leading in buried. We ask for the same consideration. See more here.
- Little (if any) of the power will feed our homes or businesses.
- Little consideration has been considered for alternative routes and placement of the new substation.
- Xcel gave inflated numbers to the County Planning Commission regarding the cost of burying the new lines. According to their own website. We do not dispute it is more expensive, but should be considered for parts of the project where areas are already congested with multiple lines (Toll Gate).
- Only Xcel has done EMF readings in the area. Neighbors in the area have done their own readings that have been very high. We ask that a third party, at Xcel's expense, be hired to do an unbiased reading along the easement and in our neighborhoods. This is a matter of public safety, even the state has set limits on the amount of EMF we should be subjected to.
If the project is to go forward, we demand the following:
- The new substation be built with the same community focus as the new Thornton Substation (see #1 above).
- The existing substation be re-landscaped and a wall added. If possible we ask that it be covered as well.
- All residents along the easement receive beautification funds in the amount of $500. This is the same amount each affected resident is receiving in Parker.
- All affected HOAs should receive $10,000 in funds to plant additional greenery to make the neighborhood more attractive to new home owners, or to soften the view of the towers.
- Toll Gate HOA or it's associated metro district, should receive $50,000 to mitigate and improve the affected areas.
- Xcel should be required to extend, at their expense, the existing trail system all along the existing easement in the City of Aurora and Arapahoe County where possible.
- Xcel commits to beautifying and adding trees to the existing easement.
Updates
May 15, 2017
I am currently organizing the technical documentation to challenge the cost estimates provided by Xcel to the planning commission. Counsel is being consulted to ensure our request for an alternative routing study is formally submitted at the next municipal hearing.
Reached 100 supporters
May 15, 2017
32 Comments
Please force accelerate to bury these lines and put up an aesthetically pleasing substation if they must put one up at all. The home owners in Tollgate crossing were never notified (because apparently you only get notified if you live within 500 ft - ridiculous) and while I moved here knowing of the 2 close by, having a third and additional towers is unfair at best - perhaps xcel could put this somewhere else less impactful to the community already living with their gigantic eye sore.
Xcel doesn't care about the people who live in Aurora or the communities where they install there infrastructure. All they care about are profits. Please do more than signing this petition. Please write your elected representatives: Tell them how disappointed you are that they're not doing more to force Xcel to take measures to protect residents from unknown effects of EMF, protect our property values, and reduce the eyesore these industrial elements create.
Initial mailings indicated alternative locations for Xcel's mega substation (further north and east of proposed site) and away from current residential housing development. Their current plans are directly within the Tollgate Housing community
These power lines were set when there wasn't any residential development. Their high voltage is hazardous to residents in the certain radious. Please get rid of them and bury the lines under ground.
Please use alternate routes, please relandscape, beautify, create trails,and make attractive any new substation. Additionally please have Xcel donate funds to the Tollgate H o A. Lastly bury lines!
Stop The Power Lines
It's another eye sore not to mention right next to the school?!!!
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The City Council has voted to reject the current transmission line proposal in light of our formal opposition. We remain in communication with local offices to ensure the project does not move forward in any alternative capacity.
July 23, 2017
Final supporters
DON'T LET XCEL CONTINUE TO INDUSTRIALIZE OUR AREA
(Petition is open to all residents 18 or older of the City of Aurora and Arapahoe County, Colorado)
To the Aurora City Council and County Commissioners:
We call on the Aurora City Council and Arapahoe County Commissioners, our elected representatives, to reject all proposed routing of Xcel’s Pawnee to Daniels Park ultra-high-voltage long-distance transmission lines because:
- Xcel had a substation project twice rejected (2011 and 2015) by the City of Thornton. Xcel came back in 2016 with a beautiful community conscious, covered, walled landscaped substation with all lines leading in buried. We ask for the same consideration. See more here.
- Little (if any) of the power will feed our homes or businesses.
- Little consideration has been considered for alternative routes and placement of the new substation.
- Xcel gave inflated numbers to the County Planning Commission regarding the cost of burying the new lines. According to their own website. We do not dispute it is more expensive, but should be considered for parts of the project where areas are already congested with multiple lines (Toll Gate).
- Only Xcel has done EMF readings in the area. Neighbors in the area have done their own readings that have been very high. We ask that a third party, at Xcel's expense, be hired to do an unbiased reading along the easement and in our neighborhoods. This is a matter of public safety, even the state has set limits on the amount of EMF we should be subjected to.
If the project is to go forward, we demand the following:
- The new substation be built with the same community focus as the new Thornton Substation (see #1 above).
- The existing substation be re-landscaped and a wall added. If possible we ask that it be covered as well.
- All residents along the easement receive beautification funds in the amount of $500. This is the same amount each affected resident is receiving in Parker.
- All affected HOAs should receive $10,000 in funds to plant additional greenery to make the neighborhood more attractive to new home owners, or to soften the view of the towers.
- Toll Gate HOA or it's associated metro district, should receive $50,000 to mitigate and improve the affected areas.
- Xcel should be required to extend, at their expense, the existing trail system all along the existing easement in the City of Aurora and Arapahoe County where possible.
- Xcel commits to beautifying and adding trees to the existing easement.
Updates
May 15, 2017
I am currently organizing the technical documentation to challenge the cost estimates provided by Xcel to the planning commission. Counsel is being consulted to ensure our request for an alternative routing study is formally submitted at the next municipal hearing.
Reached 100 supporters
May 15, 2017
32 Comments
We have an elementary school right there and a brand new middle school going in next to this new station....I am sincerely concerned for our children's health!
Please force accelerate to bury these lines and put up an aesthetically pleasing substation if they must put one up at all. The home owners in Tollgate crossing were never notified (because apparently you only get notified if you live within 500 ft - ridiculous) and while I moved here knowing of the 2 close by, having a third and additional towers is unfair at best - perhaps xcel could put this somewhere else less impactful to the community already living with their gigantic eye sore.
Xcel doesn't care about the people who live in Aurora or the communities where they install there infrastructure. All they care about are profits. Please do more than signing this petition. Please write your elected representatives: Tell them how disappointed you are that they're not doing more to force Xcel to take measures to protect residents from unknown effects of EMF, protect our property values, and reduce the eyesore these industrial elements create.
Initial mailings indicated alternative locations for Xcel's mega substation (further north and east of proposed site) and away from current residential housing development. Their current plans are directly within the Tollgate Housing community
These power lines were set when there wasn't any residential development. Their high voltage is hazardous to residents in the certain radious. Please get rid of them and bury the lines under ground.
Please use alternate routes, please relandscape, beautify, create trails,and make attractive any new substation. Additionally please have Xcel donate funds to the Tollgate H o A. Lastly bury lines!
Stop The Power Lines
It's another eye sore not to mention right next to the school?!!!
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We have an elementary school right there and a brand new middle school going in next to this new station....I am sincerely concerned for our children's health!