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Adding a few more points for consideration that all come from spoon's initial post and seem to have been missed or ignored by some...

- Not being able to use the road you live on for an entire day is definitely an inconvenience. The organizer said 2 way traffic will be eliminated moving forward, which means once riders pass a house, the road can open there for the rest of the day. That changes things since rwgps shows many routes use the same road a couple of times.
Also, many people could go about their mornings without issue if they live on a road that is utilized later in one of the distances.

- Steamboat Springs is 13,000 people. The entire county which this is ridden is is only 25,000 people. The county has 11 people per square mile. 11. Per square mile.

- The ride generated $4.5MM of taxable spending in Steamboat Springs which supports small businesses and local employment. That spending resulted in $378,000 in taxes. $3,780 in taxes went to the county, $10,960 in taxes went to the state, and $363,258 in taxes went to Steamboat Springs, which is the county seat and largest town in the county.

- When people mention the city benefitted and the county didnt, yeah the money tracks with that claim. But at the same time, there is little else in the county besides Steamboat Springs. Thats the only place with an actual grocery store, a Walmart, and there are barely even any other playgrounds in the entire county.
With that said, if the county could financially benefit more, maybe that would help reduce frustration. But how much is actually needed?

- Anyone can call in and report a rider for doing things they dislike.



At 11 people per square mile, how many people is this actually hurting? I hope both sides can meet in the middle and make this work. SBT GRVL sure seems like they are proactively trying to address concerns.

ETA- The claim that this race is unsafe for the citizens and producers of Routt County is...a touch on the dramatic side. Some rancher made that claim. The rancher also called it 'one of the worst example of nonrepresentational government.'
What on Earth?!?! How is this an example of nonrepresentational government? People are elected or hired to run governments. Those people are tasked with making decisions so that not everything has to be a direct vote by all the people. I welcome a scenario where the rancher would feel like he is properly represented. This is a county with only 25,000 people and over half live in one town(city). The county has 11 people per square mile and if you look at land outside of Steamboat Springs, there are fewer than 5 people per square mile. Fewer than 5 per square mile.
Yeah- money is going to go to the place(s) where people exist. Its going to be spent in the place with 1300 people per sq mi and not the pace with 5 people per sq mi. Further, the areas with 5 people per sq mi should not have an overly influential impact on decision making. If they did, then that would actually be non-representational in nature.