NEW TAOS COUNTY OHV ORDINANCE
whether you like it or not
so says the Sheriff
(OHV, Off Highway Vehicles, ATVs, Dirt bikes etc .....)
After hours just to make contact with a few of the commissioners today,
giving me the run around about some fictitious "committee" working on an OHV ordinance?
When it is only the Sheriff ....and he's "moving ahead with it" whether you like it or not.
The Sheriff who respectfully upon my request sent me the ordinance he wrote
so i could read it and kindly said for me to xyz, because "it has already gone to legal"
but oh wait...they don't have an attorney now?
and sending it to legal somehow makes this piece of crap ordinance
legal and as good as god? ...
God?, could we have an environMental impact statement on this?
If you know before I do and this comes up on their agenda, to get passed ...
Paleeeze let me know...
This is what OHV riding is really about, https://pinebarrensundersiege.com/blog/
After reading the proposed Taos County OHV Ordinance that has been sent to your legal department,
as well as researching other Ordinances in other states ~
Am informing you that the ordinance does not include comprehensive consideration for private neighbor hood roads, private property, cultural, agricultural, livestock, beekeeping, noise, nature, migratory corridors, time limitations and acequia criteria, to name a few of the gaping holes in it.
[ "private" means that the neighbors maintain the dirt road for all the neighbors and families...the county government does not. OHVs further destroy these roads, making financial impacts on maintaining our dirt roads and vehicle maintenance]
What the Sheriff's ordinance does say does say is that OHVs can ride anywhere in the County.
Am aware that some of you may be very pro OHV riding on any and all
private and county roads...and wherever and whenever the rider(s) want to.
However am inviting you to consider that OHV use is already available
in designated areas ~ and the impacts open OHV riding will have on
our neighborhoods, many of which are culturally rich, agri-livestock,
and inter-dependent with of our natural ecosystem, having migratory elk, deer, and bird populations as well as the impact on tourism and property values ....
If you are not informed about national issues in both urban and rural
areas that have opened the door for OHV use ~ am encouraging you
to consider that if OHVers do this there, they will most likely do more of it here
with the way the current ordinance is written.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/03/20/video-shows-atv-riders-bikers-popping-wheelies-on-bay-bridge/
Please listen to what Colorado has to say about opening up for OHV riders....
And finally, please inform yourself about the impacts of OHV on our forests, rivers and natural habitats
Children are riding and racing unsupervised, without legal gear, underage, on private and county roads, nearly missed crashing onto a car 3 days ago....and law enforcement has done nothing other than do a drive by.
If you approve the proposed ordinance, if a child dies or is injured, am letting you know that this is not doing your due diligence.
If the county Sheriff's department can not handle what is already on their plate.....
why would you open the door for more accidents, that not if, but will happen.
I encourage you to fully inform all of Taos County via radio, and newspaper, so that there can be a full public hearing on this issue.
Thank you for your service to Taos County
yours truely
So dear Taos Water and Mother Earth Protectors, what will you do ?
Maybe I'll get me a solar powered horse.
~ BearSense
