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<br />Land use legislation <br />due in '73 session <br /> <br />i <br /> <br />n,l' mOI,UU) J. Sfll:<lTIUt;J: <br />Rodty MOuntain N~ Wrirer <br />A state lawmaker Tuesday told the <br />Colorado Land Use Commission (LUC) <br />that legislation defining critical land-use <br />problems and creating an agency to <br />regulate them, wil1 be introduced in <br />1973. <br />Passage ot such legislation w'UUld remon' <br />resPonsibility from the LUG, a p!annillO!' body <br />P.1th some enforcement flO',\-'ers which 10 date <br />has been the state government's main answpr <br />10 land dt-I'elopment problems. Such action by <br />Lhe lawmakl"rs would be a clear ~ontidence- <br />\'(Ite on the we. whkh hU.!l bet>n criticized by <br />some legislators Cor toot-dragging in hailing <br />abuses by developers. <br />Sen. John Bt-rmingharn. R-Dt.-nw'r. a lead- <br />ing environmental lawmaker, told the commis- <br />sion that he used to Oppose such slale\l,ide <br />regulatory or planning agencies but he has <br />changed his mind. <br />"The !('mper of the public, the long and <br />shon ot it, is moving a lot raster than state I;:OV- <br />emment," he said. ''There should be an agen. <br />cy created this session with reji[umtory powers <br />o\'er areas of statt'\\.ide concem." <br />Benningham said the overwhelming rej.!-c_ <br />tion of the 1916 Winter Olympics in NlWember <br />was c1t>ar e\.idcnce of the way the public is <br />thinkinl: in ColorBrIo. 'fhEoy want cootroJs o~'er <br />some of the state's problem areas and "the <br />public wants it now," he liaid. <br />Bermingham's announcement came in the <br />midst of an We ml!'('tinJ:: at the Stat~e at <br />which commisliioners wrre ploughing through <br />what appeared to be the ncar-final drait of an <br />interim plan for land US(' pIilnnlng In Coloraoo. <br />Privately, some lawmakers have bNon criti. <br />cal of tho LVe lor not takinR' a slron~ hold on <br />some of the. stttte's rnOfiI critical problems, One <br />of which is land de\'elopment. <br />But the Lue has adoplal significant pro- <br />grams aJrl"'a,*'-Primarily model subdivision <br />rl"'guJatlon.<; ~uired to be met in aU counties. <br />This .rear ~nat(> Bill 35, product of Lt.:C staff <br />and commission work, WlI'(! more POIVi'm to <br />COWlty commissiOflt'rs in tht>ir d(~alingll with <br />subdivision. <br />Bermingham gaid he, Rep. Richard L.1mm, <br />[).Dem'er, and 5('\-eral oUler Pt'rson.!l met Tues- <br />day \\.ith Senate majority Il'ader Joe SchiE'fte- <br />lin, R-LakewOOd, to discuss the pro[iOSed regu- <br />latory ag',,"cJ", <br />SChiettelin, oontaclecl at home. said their aI'_ <br />tlOllS in this area Were "irw;lil'alive of the fa.ct <br />that \.1;~'T(' not optimistic Uwy ((he I.UC, want <br />to berorne a reguJtory agenry." <br />((uQI'ludl'd on Pal:P 7) <br /> <br />j <br />, <br />! <br />I <br />i1 <br />! <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />; <br />I <br />~ <br /> <br />,'1 <br />\)~r <br />