On the bright side, there's less chance of public money in Douglas County getting embezzled to religious schools. Hey, I went to such a school myself, and its education was certainly formative for me, but my parents paid out-of-pocket for that distinction even as their property taxes helped subsidize public education, because that's a social commitment, after all-- to all society, not just your family or religious community.

Guys, fracking has such eye-bleedingly awful outcomes on hapless communities as famously documented by healthcare practitioners on the US East Coast that there's simply no economic argument sufficient for doing this to a community. It's monstrous. I hope you simply neglected to think this through rather than that you're utter sociopaths. What else can I say? That's just how it is.

You seem to have ignored the reasonable arguments pointing out how the green roof initiative generates economic value for a building's owner. What makes you this ideologically opposed?