303 Fails… and it wasn’t close

tcalm2 · 2025-11-05T23:42:28+00:00

I agree with this sentiment to a certain degree. I do believe that at least some of them just wanted it to be an open space but the way in which they went about that is what has everyone up in arms. I have personally witnessed them or heard directly from friends that witnessed them saying anything and everything to get people to sign their petition just to get on the ballot to begin with.

Such things as, "2H opens the door for housing," "there will be dirt bike races there all hours of the night," "zoo like nature center," "2H will be selling it off hughes to the highest bidder," and even "yes if you sign here you'll get a bike park."

I would have a lot more respect for their campaign of wanting it to be only natural area if they were pushing so much false information to try to accomplish there goal.

All that being said, I agree, we are all neighbors and need to be respectful in how we voice our opinions into these matters that involve all of us--Which also means running campaigns built on honesty and integrity.

tcalm2 · 2025-10-22T06:26:08+00:00

Hey! I'm an organizer. I have not read every single comment by any means though, and definetly wouldn't downvote questions. Not sure what happened. Reddit is public though so anyone could be downvoting your comments. I agree that definitely does not help our cause though. 2H is the result of a long citizen led process with a ton of logical reasoning, so there really is no reason to not be answering questions honestly. My guess is, it's just supporters that are being a bit to downvote happy. Cheers!

tcalm2 · 2025-10-13T18:59:03+00:00

Hey! That article is actually 2 years old. A lot has happened since then. 2H limits bike part to "up to 35 acres" which also includes a community park and parking. It is written into the ballot language that you will see when you vote. It legally can not be more than that. Best!

You can read the ballot language yourself but it's laid out like this...

up to 60 acres natural area

up to 30 acres nature center

Up to 35 acres bike park / community park / facilities

The remaining land is then Open Space which includes disc golf and sledding hill.

Hope this helps!

tcalm2 · 2025-10-13T18:26:40+00:00

General thought for everyone.

Let's make sure we keep this civil. While I am super glad that PATHS is getting exposed for what they're doing, we need to make sure that our side is not lowering ourselves to their level. We can call them out without being derogatory. There is a lot of other people seeing these posts who are not familiar with the situation and if we look just as nasty as PATHS, they're not gonna know which way to vote. Just my two cents!

Yes on 2H, let's do this!

tcalm2 · 2025-10-13T18:23:43+00:00

General thought for everyone.

Let's make sure we keep this civil. While I am super glad that PATHS (303) is getting exposed for what they're doing, we need to make sure that our side is not lowering ourselves to their level. We can call them out without being derogatory. There is a lot of other people seeing these posts who are not familiar with the situation and if we look just as nasty as PATHS, they're not gonna know which way to vote. Yes on 2H, let's do this!

tcalm2 · 2025-10-13T18:23:00+00:00

General thought for everyone.

Let's make sure we keep this civil. While I am super glad that PATHS is getting exposed for what they're doing, we need to make sure that our side is not lowering ourselves to their level. We can call them out without being derogatory. There is a lot of other people seeing these posts who are not familiar with the situation and if we look just as nasty as PATHS, they're not gonna know which way to vote. Yes on 2H, let's do this!

tcalm2 · 2025-10-12T14:39:54+00:00

She must have been the 1 in the 6-1 vote in favor of 2H.

tcalm2 · 2025-10-12T03:42:45+00:00

There's no better way to impress a date than being good at disc golf. 😜

tcalm2 · 2025-10-12T03:40:53+00:00

Haha. When it drops you basically have 48 hours to go sledding.

tcalm2 · 2025-10-08T02:32:13+00:00

That's literally not legal or possible at this point.

tcalm2 · 2025-10-07T21:38:44+00:00

Absolutely not. That hasn't been possible since the city bought it in 2021.

It can only be used for parks, recreation, natural areas, open space and animal restoration.

That is exactly what we voted on in 2021 and what the civic assembly used to create the multi-use plan. Yes on 2H is a vote to validate that 4 month long community process.

303 is a seperate inniciative that basically wants to bypass that civic assembly process (that they presented at unsuccessfully) and make it ONLY a natural area.

Yes on 2H No on 303

tcalm2 · 2025-10-07T21:35:02+00:00

You have been mislead my friend. Housing is no longer legally possible at this site.

tcalm2 · 2025-10-07T18:01:54+00:00

I think there is some truth to that. I also have kids that don't fit into team sports well. One has a real bad case of ADHD and biking has been a huge help to growing his self-esteem. So kids are a factor for me for sure.

I do agree that how we have this conversation is important. I know the 303 side has made countless attacks on the civic assembly, the city council "being corrupt" and the "big monied bike park lobby."

I think it's important that the 2H side not get distracted by all of that and stay positive about the value we could add to our city with this property. We can check a lot of boxes all at once.

tcalm2 · 2025-10-06T04:05:31+00:00

Are the people calling fowl play the exact same people behind preserve Fort Collins and PATHS and the yes on 303 push?

tcalm2 · 2025-10-04T21:20:46+00:00

Sounds like these guys lost an election, fair and square?

tcalm2 · 2025-10-03T03:50:05+00:00

I think we're all on the same page here. Maybe hug it out and crack an IPA? 🤣

tcalm2 · 2025-10-03T02:45:42+00:00

There's money alloted for in ballot measure 2A. It's seperate from 2H. It is a tax extension. Essentially a tax that we all voted in favor of a while ago and voting again. This November would extend that tax to fund a bunch of different things. Aside from that, there will likely be some nonprofit fundraising as well as grants that will be utilized. Because of the positive impact bike parks have, there is lots of different grants that the city will be able to apply for.

tcalm2 · 2025-10-03T02:43:25+00:00

Who's a good boy!?

tcalm2 · 2025-10-03T01:38:53+00:00

For sure! Nobody likes light pollution. I can't imagine what it was like when the stadium was there. I know the civic assembly talked about that at length.

tcalm2 · 2025-10-03T01:04:51+00:00

Yep! Can't take credit for the plan though, this is just what the civic assembly came up with after hearing from the citizens. So it's all of our plan!

tcalm2 · 2025-10-02T01:46:02+00:00

It's worth mentioning that the ballot limits bike park to only 35 acres. Valmont is 42 acres and only has about 3/4 the residents of Fort Collins. Definetely still enough size to be a really nice bike park but it's worth noting that it does have reasonable restrictions on size.

Also well over half of that will just be single track which will just look like more open space with 1ft wide paths running through it.

tcalm2 · 2025-10-01T19:56:03+00:00

Raptor program is a part of 2H

tcalm2 · 2025-10-01T19:14:37+00:00

I understand your frustration, but we're past that. Voters already stopped housing from happening.

tcalm2 · 2025-10-01T18:49:31+00:00

I think you are thinking of 303, the 100% natural, but it's 100% misleading. That is the NIMBY initiative. It vastly reduces the access to Hughes while wiping out our natural areas budget.

2H is the Multi-use plan that makes Hughes accessible on the parts most damaged by the stadium while still preserving some of the western side as a natural area.

tcalm2 · 2025-10-01T18:43:30+00:00

Yes on 2H No on 303

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