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BANKER TELLS NEEDS , Colorado Growth Assured: From poge 33. Iplanned-in the final, long-range "} feel there should be an au- vitality is a prerequisite to a" job. He's a lounder of Down- analysis _ extension of water thority abo\"e the water board pro.~perous businesS environ-' town Den\'er Improvemenl As-' and its use is going to put out invested wilh this wponsi. menl. Rockwell believes. Thus sociation and has headed the of productioo one of the few bilily. a Front Range agency school integration, in the final now-defunct South Platte Area sourct's of new wealth in the for waler development and use. analysis, is a mjor factor in the Red{'\'e]oprnent Council. state - agricultural land. The "Water-it's our one real han- health of tomorrow's Denver, BOGGED EFFORTS St:EX soil. with water. produces new dIe on land use. The Blue Line Lakewood, Aurora, Westminster Directing the bank that is the wealth with each harvest. Once policy of the 1950s (when and the entire urban area. predominant institution in the fields become a shopping cenler Denver said it wouldn't provide "We have aU the evidence $.1M million Colorado National or trailer park. the land is an water service outside an area necessary to see whal happen~' Bankshares Inc. operation.' he expehse, or merdy recirculmes mapped with a. blue line) when we permit natural growth' sees efforts \0 solve problems money. showed that WIthout water of minority populations to be' bog down in old governmental Now president.elect of Denver there. wasn't any de\'elopmenl," come major populations in any concepts. provincialism and in- Chamber of Commerce. ~ock. he said. area and the whites flow to tbt! Ability to fmance sufficiently. well sa).s the Denver \\'ater "Untillhe state or some over. suburbs. The only way to ROl'kwen sees water as the Board has done "a remarkable all agency assumes fund amen- reverse the trend is to Integrate "key, the fundamental elerrl(:nt job" In acqUlring and bringing tal control onr the source and the schools." of rontro1!ing gro\\"h. We have waler to Denver. supply of water, its use and "Denver has alIthe problems all the water, we're going to QL'ESTIO~ I)OSED applica~ion, in my judgment, Detroit, Los Angeles, Chicago ha\'e and we ve got to make "Bu! should this body ha\'e unrestricted urban sprawl along had 25 years ago" Rockwell some basic decisions on how the aUlhoril}' to determine the the Eastern Slope will con- said. "We can ~ what has and where it's"going to be used {'haracter and courS(> of growth tinue," he ~aKt happened there and know that and ~y whom. of ~~ whole Front Range ~e qualny o~ the community it can happen here. But we're He s very concerned that un. area? envm:mment, Its health and doing very little. We hawn't .....;JIll ,Io!!t the battle, yet. But we must have the authority and. the money to do what has to be' done. . . and this, to a large degree, depends on public atti- . :tudes." He cites Park Hill. where his children attended school. as "Ii..... ing proof that blacks and white can !i\'e and work together in harmony:' It is a ~itive atti- tude that can and should be ex- panded through the metro area, he said. :RF.Fl'SI;";G TO LK\It~? In Colorado is refusing to learn and profit by the experience of othtr elties and stnles. This. plus ploMing without authority to implemt'nt the pia ns, delegating authority ~ 6'S;> withOut TlKiney to get the jobs dont', is a wa~te and erodt'S confidence in government. ""'ayors and county commis- sioners can't or won't provide the leadership and guidance the situation dt>mandg, The state must, or the f~etal govern. ment will," Rockwell said. He told the legislali\'f: com- mittee, that if the lawmakers are going to accomplish any. thing, lhe}O're going 10 have to lake some unprecedented posi. lions and act. I "Tht're's no time for pussy. footing," he said.