Public Comments

i think its positively ridiculous to put a congressman from no where near where i live in south jeffco and who has done nothing since getting elected in 1997. request is for redrawing the district map honestly for just once in my 62 yrs of life. if this lady is Denver's rep then why in hell is she also in south jeffco where she has probably never visited. Since she only needs the deeply blue city of denver to get re elected yr after yr? this is as dishonest as it gets and needs to be remedied. let her rep Denver and allow someone who actually has been to s jeffco once or so rep us. this lady 100% dosent care about s jeffco. She was put down here by very dishonest politicians who love to spend others money and say anything to get elected and then not do a thing and who never ever puts their money where their mouth is.

My name is Erin Keck and I am the Executive Director of the Alamosa County Chamber of Commerce. I'm writing to you today on the absolute importance of keeping the San Luis Valley intact during this process. Ours is a community of interest for many reasons. The name itself clearly suggests that we identify as a region. There are dozens (and dozens) of entities, business, non-profits, and other organizations that are structured to serve the SLV Specifically. We are marketed at the state level as a region for tourism. We share struggles, primary industry, and other needs/pressing issues. I could go on and on. The SLV works together in a way unlike any other community I have ever experienced. Anything that divides us at the state level would suggest a massive misunderstanding for the way our area operates and functions. We truly are one large community, and I urge you to consider the importance of keeping our region intact.

Commissioners Please review the following attachment conserning the mapping of the Colorado Congressional Districts and especially South-Central Colorado

I urge you to keep Larimer and Boulder Counties together as one congressional district. These two counties have many common interests. Larimer and Boulder Counties have a high level of high tech and pharmaceutical employment jobs. These counties share many of the same cultural and revenue generating sectors. They both have a strong tourism industry, and they both have strong educational sectors in CSU and CU, with all the attendant research and high tech spin offs. They also share the same health system, University of Colorado Health. Larimer and Boulder Counties would have a population approximately 722,000 people, the desired number for a Congressional district. Districts should also be as compact as possible, which describes Larimer and Boulder Counties because they are contiguous with no intervening geographical dividing line. Larimer County is already a competitive county, another important characteristic of a Congressional District. Adding Weld to Larimer County as a Congressional District will cease to make it competitive

Routt's shared interests center around sustainability- both in water conservation and healthy forest management for wildfire prevention, and in moving to carbon neutral. As a resort community, we are united in both welcoming and managing tourism, short-term housing, and long-term affordable housing. I believe that the 8th Senate District needs to be split in two- as Routt's interests are more in common with Jackson and Grand than they are with Moffat, Rio Blanco, and Garfield. For similar reasons, I believe the 3rd Congressional district should be split as well. We have *nothing* in common with Pueblo. Routt's interests are more in common with resort communities in Gunnison, Eagle, Vail, Aspen, than with Alamosa or Pueblo. Geographically, we share more common interests with Larimer County - in terms of sustainability, conservation, and housing.

Dear Sir or Madam: My name is Ann Atkinson. My husband, Daniel Isaman, and I live in the Travois neighborhood in unincorporated Arapahoe County, just south of E-470 and just west of Gartrell Road. Our neighborhood is in the Cherry Creek School District and South Metro Fire District. We transact most of our daily business (shopping, banking, eating in restaurants, etc.) in and around the southern Aurora area, and our children both graduated from Grandview High School in the Cherry Creek School District. Our interests are, therefore, most aligned with the greater Aurora community. We have lived in this house for over 30 years, and have found ourselves, at times, in the same Congressional district as Fort Collins, Greeley, and Sterling, communities with whom we have no association or common interest. We have also, at times, been lumped in with Douglas County districts, which is also a community with whom we have little in common. When we were lumped in with those districts with whom we had nothing in common, we felt forgotten by those who supposedly represented us. By contrast, the current 6th Congressional District keeps us with the community in which we actually live and transact business, and with the rest of the school district that our children attended. As you consider the new Congressional district map, we ask that you include us in a district that includes the entire City of Aurora as well as the areas of unincorporated Arapahoe County which are south and southeast of Aurora. Very truly yours, Ann J. Atkinson (submitted by email 6/4/21)

My opinion is that the mountain areas of Routt, Jackson, Eagle, Pitkin, Lake, and Gunnison counties should be grouped into the new district as their environments, issues and interests are more similar.

I live in Granby and would like to see Grand County included with other mountain resort communities. Currently we are lumped in with the front range and our economy is much different, our environment is much different and our water situation is different.

Thanks for the opportunity to comment on the Congressional redistricting process. This is a chance to reset the CD boundaries to help ensure that communities of common interest have reliable and consistent representation in Congress. As a resident of Steamboat Springs, it occurs to me that ski town communities, which generally have common cultures, values, economic interests and political leanings, have historically been combined with more conservative rural ranching communities, a system that generally serves neither communities of interest very well. As such, I would like to propose that the West Slope ski town communities be included in a single CD (Routt, Grand, Eagle, Pitkin, Gunnison, Summit, Lake and Chaffee counties), while creating a CD that is largely comprised of the more conservative and less populated ranching/agricultural communities in the far western and southern parts of the state, (those counties from Moffat south to La Plata and then east to Huerfano or Pueblo). Cheers, Eric Washburn

Thank goodness for the CO Supreme Court: the bill that was working its way through the Colorado General Assembly was unconstitutional: the legislative branch had no authority to tell the voter-approved, independent commissions what to do. 1) group mountain towns like Steamboat, together with other mountain communities with similar interests -- to enable infrastructure development and commonality of a shared future vision 2) adhere to the federal Voting Rights Act 3) agriculture and rural issues are really important, as well as tourism and environmental sustainability 4) ensure multiple sources of future energy (Craig/Hayden will be going offline); why can't leading edge energy replace them? 5) make sure affordable housing is part of the equation and that rental units (short- mid- long term) pay their fair share of taxes to support future development of affordable housing 6) let the people decide 7) ensure there is voting/voter integrity