7A - Handouts - Update and potential stay-of-demolition of 607 Forest Ave (HIS2008-00234) Hewat, James
From: jacqueline.johnson@colorado.edu
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:58 PM
To: Hewat, James
Subject: A viewer has a question about your event
User has a question about the event you have posted titled Landmarks Board Meeting which is scheduled for U4
February 2009.
Their question is:
Hello, just contacting you to again ask the Landmark Board to continue the stay on consideration of the
demolition of 6U7 Forest Ave.
A new very large residence on this site will not fit with the character of the neighborhood, and it would be a
shame to add another such out of proportion property to that area.
Once Boulder's history (in the shape of historic buildings) has been destroyed, it cannot be rebuilt. Boulder and
it's citizens will be the poorer for this. I hope the board will continue to take into consideration the wishes of the
neighborhood.
Thank you, Jacque Johnson
i
Bonnell, Juliet
From: Hewat, James
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 1:07 PM
To: Bonnell, Juliet
Subject: FW: 607 Forest
From: Kay Bingham [rnailt
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:29 PM
To: Hewat, James; Plass, Tim; Kornblum, Nancy; Podmajersky, Lisa; Meschuk, Chris; lomay@nilenet.com; Spitzer, John
Subject: 607 Forest
To the Landmarks Board:
Once again, we write you to ask you to uphold the stay of demolition for the 607 Forest property for the
full 180 days. Lifting the stay will set a precedent and weaken the process.
My concerns for protecting the environmental significance of the property such as the open features and
soil permeability of this prominent corner lot have not yet been answered. If the Goodson's can tell me
more about the depth of the foundation and the height and placement of the proposed new home with
respect to the site, I will rest my case for the environmental significance.
Kay and Larry Bingham
3235 6th.
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Brownlee Guyer
Fy,"'" was the county's
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_ 1970, Brownlee Guyer
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Avenue house he
bought in 1943.
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lhe territory he walked and i~"4'
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(!rove so often while servin • ~ ` ' ~ '
as Boulder Cnunly's lone ~ r
game warden from 1938 to ' ~ ~ ~b,;' ~
197Q. ~t 1 ~ ,
"11+ese (lays, he relies on ~ ~ ~ .
friends to drive him. But he's ~
never slopped Liking clock ~
of how the land and wildlife
even Uvau h a' saa~(r nrd ca ru»r Canxra
are do1nR, R
Car window. Guyer doesn't
sn much judge what ho secs ntnre than three deca(ics, he in the out-of-doors."
as simply observes, but Ix• was a fixUtrc around lhr Bul even after stepping
secrns to long for days pall coun(y, puttering ghoul in away from his work with
One sunny day in late his beloved Mndr}'I' what was Then called tJte
Febntary, a friend drove. hint "Browrdee Guyer is one Garrte, fish and Farks
north of Boulder nn 11.5. 3fi, of the truest and finest signs I>cparfinent, Cuycr contin•
Then cast nn Nelson Road, that good okl Boul(ler sell ucd to educate kids and offer
where, pheasants used In his insi hts and ex rience
burst from the Innq grass. hues among us," says writer g f>r
and fly fisher Gordon to up-and•cominq stale
"When 1 came here, !here 1ti ickstrom. "He chased me wildlife conservation of&-
wcre wnnder(ul pheasants tees.
all over. t'd see Ihcm when ! down the niKhls and days of
lung ago when I was the E~or the past t}trce years,
talked to people wltn lived rather and he the ame in (act, the Colorado I)OW
nut nn the flats," he says. ~ ~ ~ R
warden. We'd still he poach- has invited him to speak to
"But I haven't seen a phcas- its new rccntits. Guyer has a •
ant in y(•ars..., ll's all hour ntg goer arresting today if we
eOidd. ;in5t lhC slgttt Of lhank•ymt IMter from a class
es, now." Brnwttlce makes me feel he spoke [n in January.
Mynne who hunted "1 fell I}rcrn how to coofr
pheasants in Boulder County good'.
- which were scarce, but "Brownie." as he was crate with law enforcement,
knower, Iefl the 'ab in 197q to and In keep in touch with the
still present, into the milt- t ncwspapc•r," he says, recalE
f98(k -may share Guyer s run a small "fix-il" shop in iug Iris lung, close rclation•
regret over their disapl>earv Nederland amt leach Indus- ship with editors at llu•
ante. Naw you have to jour trial at is al Ihr. then-new Camera. "1 never see a
• ney much farther into "lhr• Nexanelcr Dawson School. (lamed thing about a wildlife
flats" of caster n Colorado or "I've really enjoyed work- cnnscrvalinn officer in the
to the Sand Hills of in}( with the people of Camera any rnnre."
Nebraska to God the birds. linuldcr County, cspc'<ially i to enjoyed leading cdu-
Iful it was dcvelnpmcnl, not with the youngsters," 11C told calional programs in Inca!
hunlinR, Utat drove the hirds the Uaily Camera after schools, and says he particu- .
eastward. announcing his rctirrment lady liked to talk about
Guycr's long history three decades aqn. If l heavers. He woukt arrive al
working with wildlife. had it to do over again, I school with a'bc•aver
hunters and Gshcrs uniquely would do the same thing. ( stump," a hide and tail, acrd
suits him In recall Bnulelor would rrcumdtend my type
Cunnly's natural past. For of work to anyone inlereste(I YIPaSC See GAME nn 7C
Ga e warden hel ed ~ eese
p.g .
Continued from 8C •
show students a `wonderful
beaver film:".
"I still think the beaver is ~ : _ ~ -
the greatest conservationist ~ ~ ~ ;
we've got on Earth. He , r;
knows how to preserve (the '
environment) in a way the •r ' ±
white man has never ~a ~~y i:•-~•
learned,' he says. ~ ~ ' '
Guyer has myriad tales
from his days in the field. He
recalls, for example, the time
he noticed that then-
President Dwight D.
Eisenhower neglected to
sign his Colorado fish and
game license, technically an
offense. He called the White _
House seeking anafter-the-
fact John Hancock, but the
secretary hung up an him: careen tiie pr,o~
"She told me I was just an
autograph hound," he says. Brownlee Gaye[ OfteO traveled in his beloved Model T dur-
So he went to longtime ing his 32 years as Boulder C:ounry's ]one game warden.
~ ~ Boulder U.S. Rep. Dan
Brotzman, who managed to
get the president's signature to have been caught," he flock of geese," he says.
-albeit in the wrong place. says -but mostly, people And he believes, with
Guyer still keeps the license returned the respect he some bemusement, that he
in one of two thick scrap- showed them. and a friend may be partly
books he keeps from his "I'm still friends with the responsible for the county's
years of service. worst poacher I ever knew," now-thriving goose popula-
Guyer clearly has deep he says with a smile. He tion.
respect for nature, but the won't reveal the now-rehabil- "We went down to Denver
ethic regarding wildlife was hated hunter's name, but City Park and got baby
considerably different dur- says, "He lives just down the geese," and introduced them
ing his hitch. street" to the ponds around Boulder
For example, he keeps a Guyer sees no conflict County, he says.
newspaper clipping about between hunting and conser- Deep into retirement,
his response to a bear cub vation, noting that for people Guyer mostly spends his
` that wandered into town: He and wildlife to coexist -and days in the house at 607
shot it, noting that any dam- for the health of the whole Forest Ave, that he and lus
age the animal might have ecosystem -population wife bought from Bill Arnold
caused would be the liability control is sometimes neces- in 1943 - for a whopping
of the state fish and game ~•y Deer are thriving, he $2,500. But he still goes to
department. Today, rangers observes, and elk are doing McDonald's for coffee with
give bears more than one so well that some are return- friends and takes rides out in
strike. They don't resort to ing to the plains habitat the country.
lethal control unless they where they lived before "I don't Ii~e to do too
deem that an individual bear European settlers arrived. much any more," he says.
has become too bold within Iie also wonders at the "But I always tell people I
city limits. preponderance of Canada had the best job in the _
Guyer had a few close geese who stay in die area world."
shaves with angry poachers year-round. Contact senior editor Clay
over the years - "I flunk "When I first got here, it Evans at (303) 473-1352 or
they were just embarrassed was very unusual to see a evanseUdailyeamera.com.