Owners and developers of the property just to the south of Keystone, which is currently undeveloped, are requesting a Zoning Condition, which would release the restriction currently attached to the property and allow for the construction of apartments. Any residential zoning in that area would be disastrous to our Park. Apartments or houses would mean cats! Pet cats will enter the refuge & kill birds, lizards, & mammals. We could forever lose our shore birds, wading birds, many duck species & all our ground nesting birds. Apartments would also mean children! As much as we appreciate children & their curiosity, we do not want that curiosity to extend to the Keystone archeological site. We cannot allow this internationally recognized site to be threatened. And apartments would mean traffic! The consequence of traffic from an apartment complex coupled with the visitor traffic at Keystone could make for a disastrous increase in the number of cars accessing Doniphan. Keystone is one of El Paso's treasures. Please help protect & preserve Keystone by signing our petition. Let City leaders know you oppose this zoning change.
