Dear Editor:

We all agree Ouray needs more housing and rapidly. Silvershield Terrace will provide 30 more condo units, but at a potentially disastrous cost of causing earthfall. Classic creation of a landslide is marked by the following activities: excavating a 300-plus-foot swath into a steep, crumbly slope; removing 6,000 cubic yards of sediment at the toe of the 29-degree slope; and exhuming a hillside riddled with precipitously dipping rock, mineral veins and geologic faults. All of these occ...