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<br />:SLEEPER' BILL IN PACKAGE <br /> <br />Land-Use Victory lBitter-Swe <br /> <br />*THE DENVER POST ThtltS.,Apri12 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />B~' BOB EWEGE~ nWeant changes in population also emphasized local control of Ing some 20 appropriations bills' <br />Dener Post Staff Wriler growth." land-use matters. in his fist-and brought the <br />Supporters of new land-use It defines the po~'ers local Debate in lhe House ~ver HB Senate to heel.. to Str~g said. ~ <br />legislation won a bitter-s\\-eet gO\'ernments can use In control- 1041 Wednesday was hitter as Shoemaker IS chairman of the: <br />victory Wednesday in the Colo- ling development. regulating Democrats attacked it as a Senate Appropriations Commit/! <br />rado Legislature with final pas- tlJ(' creation of roads, protecting "do-nothing bill" tee, and legislators who wantl <br />gage of a much-altered and wildlife, preserving historical S en, Joe Shoemaker, R- their ov.n bdls fundf'd are wary, <br />hotly controversial land-use bill. and archaeological areas and Denver, was the favorite target of incurring his wrath. ! <br />But while Ie ig!af'e ears still other matters, of both Democratic and Repub- O~E L~DlVlDUAL <br />were rin' from l:hree hours Its more-popular companion lican land-use ad\'ocates for the "When one individual is able <br />of heat::g rhetoric on the bill; HB 1041, incr:ease~ state majQr surgery ~hOemaker per. 10 wiel~ such pow~r as to bring, <br />primary land-use bill in the assistance - both finanCial and formed on Ib~ bill. tbe I~gtslature"to Its kn~s, you <br />House another a' r but rUle- techmcal - to local govern- GOOD OUTUE1GlIS BAD are dismayed, Strang said. <br />noti~ed lan~-d~~ mealsure ~ents in land-use planning. ";"d One key H~eRepu~lican~u- Whilepemacrats said the lal~ <br />sneaked through the barricades II allows the state Land Use thor of Ihe original bill, l.bke est version was too weak, Strang <br />and dashed to Ihe waiting arms ~!'lllli~ion ~o force local of- Strang, R-Carbondale. said be called it. "strong - but in a <br />of Gov. John Vanderhoof. flclals to act In some cases. reluctantly supported the mea. way I find personally repug_ <br />. MOST 1\IPORTA.."\T sure "after spending Ihree nant." ( <br />REI:'IiFORC~ EACH OTIIER In concert with a~Je"".~':,<'C hours dissecting my ego" and Strang said the Senate's verI. <br />The t~YO bills, both expected bills enacted by the-legislature, determining thal the good left sion exercises state authority <br />to be Signed by the g<lverrlOr. the two bills are the most im. in the bill outweighed the bad. o\'er local governments in a <br />reinforce each olher. portam package of land-use leg. Then Strang had a few words clumsy, heavy-handed way. t: <br />The "sleeper" bill, tagged HB islaHon since Senate Bill 35, to say about an anonrmous hBut I reluctanlly support tt <br />103~, broadens. clarifies and regulating subdivisions, was senator who strongly resembled as the only remaining mecha- <br />strength('ns the powers of to.....ns signed on May 5, 1972. Shoemaker: nisrn to express state inter- <br />and CQunties 10 control aclivi. That law, and the Colorado "One individual came out of e515," Strang said. <br />ties "which may result in sig. Land Use Acts of 1970 and 1971, tbe West like Lochinvar-bold. Democrats attacked the bill <br /> <br />0453 <br />