VA Master Plan: Limited Opportunities for Comment

Here is our chance to ask for the bike path through VA (and the National Cemetery), and to point out how many homeless and low income vets rely on bike access, how the 405 widening and the Wilshire corridor produce massive obstacles for cyclists, how much UCLA students and faculty do depend on such a bicycle connection, and how Brentwood and Westwood could grow together with a proper bike path. But this Masterplan uses a language which does not include the words bike or bicycle.
Written comments may be submitted through www.regulations.gov by 19 February: Now there is a sharp deadline!
One month to comment on a plan which will determine the land use at this site is very short. Two weeks into the comment period, all is quiet in Los Angeles. Very quiet.
Century City Patch reprints the announcement, Brentwood News has some good language on their site, the Federal Register has the announcement of the draft with a bit of explanation. More Google can not find. So everybody else is going to miss the deadline, especially when you want to study the Cranston Act, locate the 2001 Master Plan which was never adopted, but which is an essential background document, and study the 1998 Veteran Program Enhancement Act. One month to comment, and 14 days later all is quiet. Dear Eric.Shinseki@va.gov, dear John.Gingrich@va.gov, I think we need an extension of this deadline. Are you sure your people have contacted the usual suspects to invite them to comment? There is a lot of community around the VA, and they do want to be involved !
And by the way, can we have access to the 2001 plan? A well informed community is a good community and happy to give its considered input. But not by the 19th of February.
And while we are at it, the modality to submit comment includes the good old hand-delivery (thanks!) somewhere in DC, whereas the electronic submission at http://www.regulations.gov is entirely unclear without a more specific link. Now there is a nice opportunity for a legal challenge right there. If you want to give it a try, for best results use this: VA-2011-VACO-0001-0019. And may I also add that circulating a password protected PDF document makes it really difficult (yeah: impossible) to copy and paste for purposes of commenting - perhaps we need to work with scissor and paste here?
Grade? Well, not a good beginning!
The Master Plan pdf is password protected at the VA site. http://www.scribd.com/doc/48127448 has that inconvenience removed.