A small but important victory. This small parcel owned by the city was slated to become a low income housing project. This made no sense at all on so many levels except the money one. The 3.5 acres is an open field where flowers thrive, a prairie dog colony lives has no businesses close by save the gas station and mini mart. It is also one of the first things seen as you drive into town from the Grand Canyon on the north end of town. What a sight that would have been, a high rise apartment complex stuck on a small lot with residential homes surrounding it. We Flagites greatly value our open space. The project was fought by several groups but none the less approved by the city council. Then a week after approval, it was surprisingly taken off the list of development projects. So the flowers, prairie dogs, butterflies, bees, and bugs won after all.
Worth the fight. Well done. Selective colour works really well for your message. No idea how you preserve the green and yellow for those plants only as there must be a whole lot of green/yellows all over this one!
@yrhenwr These were taller than the rest - I liked how they stood up and out from the rest. The selective coloring took me a long time since I haven't learned how to use my wacom tablet yet. I need to take the time to learn how, someday....
Thank goodness for that! Strange that they should back track like that though.... I wonder why? Never the less so glad nature won this time round..... We have the same problems here... our grandkids won't know what grass is by the time we have finished building all over it :( :( Nice use of s.c.
@jaybutterfield Thank you, I am enjoying playing in Photoshop. Update on the land, just found out that the city council rejected a citizen petition to make this "open space" so down the road we could have more issues. I guess that I need to win the lottery and but it out right to save it.
@stephanies Open space is sadly a disappearing commodity. If we use it up, where will be go? Just found out that the citizen petition to make this parcel open space and thus saved permanently was rejected by the city council. Short sighted politicians.
August 21st, 2017
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