If activists had anything to say about it, the Boulder City Council would have withdrawn from the Rocky Mountain Greenway Project during its April 13 meeting. But activists didn't get a say in the matter, at least not then. The latest decision on the project was presented as an update, not a discussion item, because as Carl Castillo, the city's chief policy advisor, explained, "The one thing we don't want...is for this to become a public hearing item."
That quote comes from an email that the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, a longtime human and environmental rights organization based in Boulder, obtained through a records request. A thread of emails among Boulder City staff members discussing if and how they should allow the public to speak at the meeting culminates with that comment from Castillo.