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Dear Mayor Adler, Austin City Council, and City Management,

In support of the stakeholders of the Emma Long Motorcycle Park, I respectfully request your aid in ensuring that the stakeholders receive an unbiased hearing in the defense of their continuing right to use their park.

For three years, the stakeholders at Emma Long Motorcycle Park have been victims of unjustifiable and capricious persecution by the management of the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve. The BCP management has used misleading arguments and has willfully misinterpreted City Ordinances in its campaign to close trails and riding areas that the stakeholders built and have maintained for 45 years. Ultimately BCP closed 34% of the riding areas in the heart of the Park.

Details of the BCP’s persistent and unabashedly illegitimate attempts to exclude stakeholders from the Park can be found on two reports at www.felmp.org

Most frustrating is that the BCP management seems to think that it need not obey the law when targeting a group —like motorcyclists—that it perceives to be undesirable. The stakeholders are citizens too, and citizens’ rights should not be trampled upon because their chosen mode of recreation. It is a slippery slope if City Officials overlook this entitled attitude by City Staff to fabricate the facts.

Moreover, the stakeholders have demonstrated that, even using the BCP’s own data and justifications, there would be no case for excluding them from the Park.

Emma Long Park is owned by the City of Austin and is co-managed by the BCP and PARD. Please give the stakeholders equal time in front of an independent impartial panel to allow them to have their case decided in a fair manner, on the basis of facts, rather than misleading testimony and narrow prejudice.

Thank you