His landscape design for the capitol was pedestrian-oriented?EUR??,,????'??+walkways, American elms for shade, bluegrass terraces with Colorado blue spruce and flowering trees.

Denver Post columnist Susan Barnes-Gelt writes that Schuetze design is being undermined by too much pavement. She notes that in the mid-1930s, Colorado legislators started parking their cars in the circle close to the legislative building. Fifty years later, in 1987, a memo from landscape architect Phillip Flores called to “Restrict access and parking around base of State Capitol Building to ceremonial and emergency vehicles only.”

Gelt writes that state officials apparently have no interest in securing the ?EUR??,,????'??elegance and human scale?EUR??,,????'?? of Schuetze’s plan. A new parking structure is already in place with plans for even more parking. Such a plan, she asserts, would result in removing grass, mature trees and public right-of-way totaling nearly 5,000 sq. ft.