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, Land use bills being written by both parties RJ! mCIIMm J, SC1LXEIDF:R Rodcy Me>utllin NflPn Writ~t Major land use legislation is still being written by a select group of state officials and lawmakers of both parties in the Colorado Legislature. TI1ey're drafting what has been hilled as a tough, sv.eeping measlU"e affecting e\'eljo'one In the state. HouS{' Speak{,T John Fuhr, R-Aumra, saId f'riday that the bipartisan coalition of party lead!;'" from the House and Senate was still strong. There appeared to be no tndicatiOOll that the coalition will cnunble, he said. HOll~e minority whip Rep. Richard Lamm, !).Denver, agreed that work on th6 bill was continuing .....ith no partisan snags. Neitht'r l>arty It>ader could say precisely when lhe bill will be ready fOl' introduction. Other sources indicated it will be at least 10 days and probably longer. WOIHi.I"n O~ TI"~ )1F:ASrnt:s 'I'hot<e genf.'raJIy identilled as \.\"Orking on the legislation aJ.~ Fuhr. Ulmm. Sen. John Berm- in~ham. R-IRnver, Senate majority leader Joe SchieUdin, R...I..akewood, aides of Gov. Love and t\\"O members of the Land Use Commission (We) staff, Data collected by the LUC staIt And a few LUC :recommendations, are part of the mate- rial on whiCh the legislation Is based. The LUC itself,/lOW('\'t'r, hag!x-en left out 01 the d:ratting: und tJ1e commission's future Is in doubt Schieffelin has said the legislation .....111 1n~ elude a new 'State regulator).. agency to review local planninR dedsilms. and h& has DaUy !lIntel! it won't lK' the LUC. Fuhr said ag:re('m('nt has been reached on the bnsir philosophy bl>hind the bill. The work now involv('s turning these concepts Into hard legislation that (lan withstand C(lUrt battles U the bill becomes law. Lamm said he and Bermlof!:ham are head- Ing a subr\lmmittee v.hich is dolni' most of the dralting....,orI.:. :0;0 O:oiF: IIE.Un- TO T.\LK No one di~Uy involved .....1th the drafting will release details of the legislation. Each saya he won't until it's ready for introduction. But it's e~[lCCted to embody the general planning outlines set forth by Love in a concep- tual map ~howing what the state could look like by the year 1990. It includes gI'e('nbelts around urban areas, strict state control of annexations and the crea. lion or expansion of ser\i('e districts and state rt'guJation of areas heretofore controlled by pri. vate enterprise, 0rlC'e introduced. the bill will go through the usuallegislati\'e steps of public hearings belore standing committees, Illast yenr's legislative session 1s any 1ndJ. cation, intense opposition to the upcoming bill \\ill be forthcoming from the- real estate indus. u,-, t -~ v , c ~ '> 0 , - -.- c ',' ~ -. 0472