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Residents and trail users urge Littleton to halt paving of Jackass Gulch/Mineral Spur; dispute over grant claims
Summary
Multiple residents urged City Council during public comment to stop converting the Mineral Spur/Jackass Gulch recreational trail into a 16-foot concrete roadway, raising legal, planning and open-space funding concerns and offering alternatives including preserving crusher-fine surfacing and installing parallel routes.
Several residents, runners and neighborhood property owners addressed Littleton City Council during public comment, urging the council to reconsider plans to replace the crusher-fine “spur” trail in Jackass Gulch with a 16-foot-wide concrete surface and to preserve the trail’s recreational value.
Mark Flink, a Southbridge resident and daily user of nearby trails, told council the city used misleading claims in grant applications to obtain federal, state and Arapahoe County open-space funds for the paving component. He said the city’s application to the Colorado Department of Transportation characterized the project as an implementation of the transportation master plan and claimed it would serve “hundreds of residential dwellings within the 1 mile travel shed of the light rail station.” Flink said the TMP’s authors used a 1/2-mile walkshed standard and…
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