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Commission By CAROL ~k'lIVRROt:GH the future, extension of de\'elop- Denver Post Staff Writer ment rtgulation 10 home rule Nine major land use policies cities and location of highway were approved Tuesday by the and transit corridors. Colorado Land Cse Commission The commission also ap- (Lee), but other significant proved policies 10 be applied to areas concerning agriculIure, those nine areas. m i n t n g . recreation. regional Howe\'er. it look no \'ote on planning and water were post. suggested methods IG 1mple- poned until next year. men! those policies-lea\'ing The commission will meet those suggestions 10 be "addi- again at 1 p.m. Tuesday to tional informlltion" to be pre- polish its final draft on the senled 10 the legislature. 1Jine-point interim land use Additionally, it approved the plan. which it will submit 10 the listing of 15 other areas of "ad- legislature in January, ditianal COf1cem" bul decided However, it decided to cut off not 10 adopt policies for those ) Its deliberations at thet point areas at this time. Work on and 10 consider other portions that will begin in January, ac- of its long-range plan next cor din g to commission year. members, meening that phase Chairman John Crowley told of the program will be included The Post Tucsday afternoon in the December 1973 plan, that the commission had com- One of the areas of "addi. pleted about 70 per cent of its Uonal" concern not yet studied work on the "interim plan" to by the commission concerns be sub m i t t e d before next state water policies and laws, a month, but added that work topic which a state legislative beyond tbat point will be leader recently said would be "amplified considerably," 'I'Ire considered this year by the leg- LUC must submit a final land islature. use plan for the state next State Sen, Joe Schieffelin, R. December. \\'heat Ridge, new Senate ma- In recent meetings, the com. jority leader, said In a speech mission's WCll'k consisted of that a bill to regulate the exten- sorting out the nine areas it sion of water lines might be in- belie\'ed to be of the most jrn. troduced In January. mediate and critical concern, He also predicted that a Those areas include control of "standards" amendments on the population density, annexation construction of roads might be control, control over formation introduced. Bot h measures of municipalities. control O\'er probably will be requested by formation of new communities, the LUC, he said. restriction on fonnation end ex- An earlier draft of the land pansion of certain types of dis- use plan rerommended that the trict.!, location of government conunlssion go even beyond the facilities to serve dispersed slep suggested by Sen. SctueIfe- population. growth dispersal in .Iln. 040;')