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<br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Wed., Dec. 20, 1972, Denver. Colo. Rocky Mountain News-7 <br /> <br />land use bill due in 1973 Legislature <br /> <br />K"ontlnu..drrom Pa/i:..5) <br />He said the la",'makl.'r5 wanted to see what <br />!hI.' LUC would come up with "hoping they would <br />~ommend creation 01 such an agency this <br />sl.'SSim." <br />"A land use plan Is only as 1l00d as you can <br />enforce it," he said. "Our feeling is that the <br />time is ripe for such an ag{'ney." <br />Although S<:hieffelin has been critical or the <br />LUC tor dt"lays in adopting its interim land use <br />plan, he said the commission has been "very <br />valuable" in sew'ral areas. <br />One Is the vast amount of data the staff has <br />calIeeted regarding land \1.."(' in Colorado and <br />the other is the "Senate Bill 35 aPllroach to <br />bnd use control." <br />!bat approach, he said, Is to SE't into law re- <br />quirements which are to be adopted and en- <br />forced at the localle\'el. <br />Regarding the proposed state regulatory <br />agpncy. he said he doesn't know v"ihether en- <br />fOM'emcnt would be at the local or state le\'el. <br />He also said the interim plan of the LUe <br />....'OIl!d be useful in determining guidelines for <br />t!1E'iragE'ncyldE'a. <br />'llw Lue has cstabllllhPd nine primE' areas <br />or critical state concem and 16 secondary <br />aff'3S of slut.e....ide COf\f'em. <br /> <br />Schleffelin said the nine major areas seem- <br />ed to be "catchall" areas .....hich would be dif- <br />ticult to regulate. 1l1e secondary areas, how- <br />e\'er, seem to be more precise \'l'rsions or the <br />major areas and may be more easily regulat- <br />ed, he said. <br />Undl'r the proposed LUe interim plan, <br />major areas or stale concern include such <br />things as displ'rsal or growth, creation or new <br />oommunities, locations and charactl'rlstics of <br />highway-transit corridors, and statewide densi- <br />ty standards. A fe...... of thE' major areas, such as <br />control of annexntions and expansion of erea. <br />tion of spec-ial taxation districb;, could be cOn- <br />trolled rather easily .....ith new legislation.. <br />Some of the secondary areas are de\'el~ <br />ment in hazard areas, rt"gional planning, fund- <br />ing at state al,T('ncies and mineral reserveS. <br />Hermingham indicated that work on the <br />regulatory agency proposal .....rm.t get into ruu <br />swin.': until after the 1913 Legislature convenes <br />Jan. 3. <br />The LUe SpE'nt much of th<, aftl'rnoon mak- <br />ing fiJlal rc\'islOf\ll in its interim plan, hoping to <br />get a toIJJ2:h version to (".av. Love 8.5 soon as <br />possible and a tinal version with a map supple- <br />ment to the Legisl:lture by mid-January. <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />--.' I <br /> <br />~~\\ <br />