Comments on: Snow Park Slides Over To Eagle Island

By: Long time resident

Long time resident — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:02:18 +0000

We bought our place in the late 1980’s, in a subdivision that was built over 30 years ago, long before Eagle leased the land from Ada County, and, I’m guessing, probably before you were born. This was when Eagle had a stop sign and a squirrel crossing at the intersection of Eagle Road and State Street, before they had to re-route the highway around the center of the city of Eagle. This was also before when the Ada County land, which includes the Ada-Eagle Sports Complex property, was purchased with landfill monies to be a landfill buffer and not to be developed. What kind of home work would that be, Glenn? Hindsight? Foresight? The Eagle Island State Park appears to be a good place for the snow terrain park to reside. Or Mr Neptune can purchase land himself and not use public lands or taxpayer money for his business venture.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 01:13:34 +0000

The sports complex in Eagle is a much better spot for this type of recreation. Eagle Island is too small and doesn’t have the elevation drop available at the existing bike park.

The bike park was already allocated and zoned for recreational use (water hungry baseball and softball fields were on the original plan). So parking and the limited lighting required were planned for anyway. I live next to the Bike/sports complex and couldn’t be more excited to see more family recreational opportunities developed in our area. Anyone who is against this park for simple NIMBY rational should have done their homework before moving in… it has always been a multi use sports and recreational designated area.

The park needs to be moved permanently to the Eagle bike park and let the fun begin!

By: Joan

Joan — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:41:14 +0000

The Eagle Island State Park sounds like a more appropriate fit for the proposed snow terrain park to be located, rather than the Ada-Eagle Sports Complex. The Eagle Island State Park location would ameliorate many of the current issues that the Ada-Eagle Sports Complex location has. Eagle Island State Park is a much more appropriate location and would alleviate the problems with the neighbors, noise and lighting. And there is a water source, rather than using precious water from the aquifer. All of which have been plaguing issues with the proposed snow terrain park at the Ada-Eagle Sports Complex location. Additionally, the conflict about the interpretation of the lease terms between Ada County and the City of Eagle would go away.
Now that Ryan Neptune has successfully gotten a pilot snow terrain park established at the Eagle Island State Park, do we need a second snow terrain park at the Ada-Eagle Sports Complex and within the Eagle City Limits with all of its inherent problems?
We can applaud for Ryan Neptune in selecting a more appropriate and less controversial location for his snow terrain venture. The City of Eagle should embrace the Eagle Island State Park as the “new permanent” location for their proposed snow terrain park.

EDITOR NOTE–Joan, well said and we would certainly agree with your summation.

By: Flyhead

Flyhead — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:56:09 +0000

It seems pretty sensible to me that the restrooms be heated for this effort. Who wants to play helicopter when trying to hover over the disgusting stuff in the portapotty.

I think this is a pretty good idea and will provide a recreation opportunity here in the valley. I hope the price to use this is reasonable enough for it to be attractive. Mr. Neptune seems to know what he is doing.

By: Grumpy ole guy

Grumpy ole guy — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 01:00:27 +0000

And, as we all know road traffic and parking will all take care of themselves.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 14:56:23 +0000

Good place for it. Let’s hope this works out and they forget the bike park area.