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<br />L <br /> <br /> <br />i <br />A SEel <br /> <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />nON <br /> <br />ON THE <br /> <br />ENVIRONMENT <br /> <br />OF <br /> <br />THE <br />I <br /> <br />ENVIRONMENT CR1sIS LOOMS <br /> <br />I <br />Time R:unning 01 <br /> <br />B)' DICK PROl)TY <br />Denver Post Stafl Wriler <br />"Time is running out on us. I have Ill! <br />feeling the next dttOlde will pretty en <br />tell what kind of a place we're goin to <br />live in here in Colorado," <br />That's an appraisal of the DIl do <br />scene from a 17th Street environme Iii! <br />named Bruce Rockwell. <br />Like many observers and th' s. <br />Rockwell waxes and wanes with pE'ss s- <br />tic and optimistic views about the ()o- <br />Qday world we live in and the way \Ire e <br />inil. <br />But there's one thing be's certain <br />j"People are going to be coming to ~. <br />f do by the thousands. We'U grow at 8..1 c. <br />, celerating rate whether we want to. , <br />no~~w this growth is going to OCCUr ~ <br />Y C'Oncerns Rockwell, p~sident of Co d" <br />do XationaI Bank. He's almost afraid.' <br />"establishment" won't "be able to ~ <br />with it. ' <br />"We'reconrrontl!d with trt'mendausnt" <br />challenges. and the rale at which ~s <br />3re changing is itself a fador. We're rim <br />using the old methods, of go~etnrnent~lo <br />cope with mass transit, housmg, ~fa' <br />tion, land use, urban sprawl," Roct.t 11 <br />said, _..,( <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />"So very little is really being done. I <br />despair at getting at the problem without <br />changing fundamental slructurt'll of gov- <br />ernment and imposing a (new, authori- <br />tarian) level of government OV/>f local <br />agencies-if not the state government." <br />Need for governmental changes is <br />e\.ideneed in froeral land-use legislation <br />that asserts state and local governments <br />aren't doing the job and in the national in- <br />terest the federal govem~nt m\J6t step <br />into the gap, he said. <br />One of the factors jeopardiz.ing Colora- <br />do's fulLae, RockweU believes, is the State <br />Constitution that forbids borrowing by the <br />state, So far leaden ba"en-t realiy tried <br />to correct the shortcomings, be feels, <br />"We're absolutely kidding ollT6elves In <br />Colorado if we think we can keep up on <br />our pressing needs on a pay.as.you.go <br />basis, There's no way to do it," Rockwell, <br />a native of Denv/>r and an East High <br />graduate, said emphatically, <br />Schools, transportation, jobs, recreation <br />clean air and water obligations aNl com: <br />pounding in complexity and in scale that <br />annual revenues can't possibly meet and <br />still get the jobs oone, he said, <br />Rockwell cited Auraria as an example, <br />The development ol the education com- <br />plex in Deilver will eventually cost $150 <br /> <br />-?~ <br />'?'t9 <br />