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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2665385, member: 716"] The trouble is with the design. [ATTACH=full]137871[/ATTACH] You can see that the trail comes in from the west and they plunked the Amp's roof on top of it; it pretty much goes through the middle of the venue. So I can kind of see why the promoter wouldn't want people there on show days. But the county didn't have to place it here (there were two other options for orienting the building to accommodate the older trail), and in theory at least the county could've negotiated with SMG to keep the trail open. I don't have the document handy and don't exactly remember where the other two alternatives placed the building. And there was very limited public participation because this was rushed through. But for my money (and a couple critics echoed this at the time), the Amp should've been built closer to the center of that shot, still on the lake, but much closer to parking and the Expo Center, with room for the trail. [/QUOTE]