Train Mountain Railroad
PO Box 438
Chiloquin, OR 97624
Phone: 541-783-3030
1/11/2014

On Tuesday February 25 at 6:00pm the Klamath County Planning Commission and the Board of County Commissioners will hold a hearing that will determine the future of Train Mountain.

We need to send Lots of Supporting EMails.

We need to fill the room with Supporters.

There will be an Open House Meet starting Saturday Feb 22 and ending with the Hearing Tuesday Evening. The meet will be Free and open to members and non-members. A current liability release will need to be signed.

Train Mountain has requested that the county create a new Train Park Zone that :
1) Allows a Track Connected Community to house volunteers on 2+ acre lots on 129 acres on the west side of TM.
2) Allows a Train Park Support area on 39 acres around Central Station. This lets us build track, run the store, improve Blue Caboose, develop the museum, etc. as permitted uses instead of non-conforming, grandfathered, or conditional uses.

There are 2.3 million non profits in the US…. 1.6 million registered with IRS. The top 7% have budgets of $100,000 a year or more. 94% of non-profits with annual revenues below $200,000 are run exclusively by volunteers. Train Mountain is just like all the other non-profits. It only has enough money to be run by volunteers. We have to have a track connected community to attract and retain the volunteers needed to run Train Mountain. This is critical to TMs future.

more info at :http://www.tmrr.org/Resources/special/OpenHouseMeet.pdf
WE REALLY NEED YOUR HELP ON THIS :

SEND EMAILS
Please send an email supporting the Train Mountain Application. The email should go to Mark Gallagher, Planning Director... mgallagher@co.klamath.or.us Sample Text is :

"Dear Mr. Gallagher,

I am writing to support Train Mountain's application to allow a Train Connected Residential Community for volunteer workers and to allow the activities necessary to support the Train Park.

Sincerely,

Richard Elgenson"

If you have volunteered at TM, talk about that. If you think about having a place at TM and building a life that includes working on TM, talk about that. And talk about why Train Mountain is important to you.

Oregon land use law allows a County to approve residential development on Resource Lands (TM is Forestry) outside a designated Urban Growth Area (like Chiloquin) to house Workers for an established Economic Activity. Here we are creating housing for Volunteer Workers that will help Train Mountain.

ATTEND THE HEARING -- We need to fill the room with supporters. The proposal will be heard by the Klamath County Planning Commission and Klamath County Commissioners on Tuesday Feb 25th at 6:00pm in the Klamath County Government Center,
 305 Main Street, Klamath Falls, Oregon. Sometimes only the back door of the buiding is open in the evenings.

We are working on a Gazette to explain more details.

This is fully supported by the Train Mountain Board of Directors

Tom Watson, Chuck Barnes, Dennis Ward, John Cooper, Jerry Crane, Jim Armstrong and

"A personal note…. I very seldom ask you to interrupt your life and do something critical for Train Mountain. We really need to get more volunteers to live at Train Mountain if it is going to survive. We have to get this. Please send an email now. It is a numbers game. Have your spouse, and everyone you know voice their support for Train Mountain. If you post to a list of people that might help, ask them to send supporting emails. PLEASE make a special effort and come to the hearing. We need to make a strong showing. This is as important as getting rid of the IRS liens. WE NEED YOU!

John Black"