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--- comments_on_mwc_master_plan [2022/09/17 05:03] – sigridundset
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 ====== Comments on MWC Draft Master Plan ======
+{{ :mw:mp_public_written_comments.pdf |Public Written comments}}
 {{ :mw:building_plans.pdf |"What's next - a McDonald's at the Flume?"}}
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 {{ :mw:4-kh-mt_washington_master_plan_and_proposed_lizzie_station_redacted.pdf |}}
-{{ :mw:0024_220831151525_001_redacted.pdf |}}
+{{ :mw:0024_220831151525_001_redacted.pdf |"No to a resort on the sacred mountain."}}
 {{ :mw:alpine_sleeper_car_proposal.pdf |"Can we not put the health of our natural world and the wild experiences still found atop New England ahead of the almighty dollar and the accommodation of ever-increasing numbers of visitors to a severely limited, fragile resource?"}}
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 features, how about they clean up the environmental disaster they have already caused."}}
-{{ :mw:cog_railway_hotel_proposal.pdf |}}
+{{ :mw:cog_railway_hotel_proposal.pdf |"The Mount Washington summit has only grown more crowded and commercialized since that (1978) trip. Adding a hotel a short way down-slope will only make this worse and
+further threaten the Mount's fragile ecology. For the sake of future generations, please reject this misguided proposal in its entirety."}}
+{{ :mw:cog_railway_proposal_redacted.pdf |With our climate
+changing and risks to our precious resources increasing, it is more
+important than ever to diminish the human stress on the fragile
+mountain ecology. Building infrastructure to accommodate guests
+on the Cog above the treeline will only add to the risks and
+degradation of Mt. Washington's unique environment.}}
-{{ :mw:cog_railway_proposal_redacted.pdf |}}
+{{ :mw:save_the_top.pdf |We need to think of for generations not just what income
+we can generate from it. Compared to other areas, what we are doing is a disgrace.}}
 {{ :mw:comment_letter_re_draft_mount_washington_master_plan.pdf |}}
-{{ :mw:comment_letter_re_mt_washington_draft_master_plan_-_standing_trees_-_august_2022.pdf |}}
+{{ :mw:comment_letter_re_mt_washington_draft_master_plan_-_standing_trees_-_august_2022.pdf |A close read of the statute makes it clear that the goals of the Master Plan are not co-
+equal, and that the business “success” of the “Summit Partners” is not mandated. The most
+important obligation of the Mount Washington Commission is “(d) Protection of the
+summit as to its unique flora and other natural resources.” }}
 {{ :mw:comment_on_mwc_draft_masterplan_lizzie_station_project.pdf |}}