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<br />AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
<br />V anderhoof to Propose
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<br />By BOR E\\EGE~ day at the \'oyager Inn. the Frunt Range and (Denver) aIs will be ke}'ed to strengthen-
<br />DeD\'er Post Staff Wriler "1 can assure you Ihe gover- metropolitan area and not lay' ing the I:!: existing regional
<br />Gov. John Vanderhoof will nor woo't recommend a bill down decrees sv.eeping all planning bodies established last
<br />propose land-use legisJation to such as SB 377 to the legisla- across Ihe state, including year by then-Gov. John Love.
<br />the 1914 legislature 10 provide ture next winter," Bermingham, areas where growth isn't really "Increasingly, }'ou "'ill hear
<br />financial and technical assis- told the agriculture group, a problem." about these (regions) as a)
<br />lance to local gO\lemments-but S8 3i7 was a comprehensive f'VRTHER GROWTH mechanism to cope with prob-
<br />won't propose the kind of Jand-use bill built around a Further growth in the region lems," he said.
<br />strong state commission which strong state C'ommission which is inevitable, Bermingham said, :-;0 TIITRD LEVEL
<br />I aroused heavy opposition in would have had broad authority and a top priority will be to eS- "The reglons won't be a third
<br />the lasl legislative session. the to regulate subdivisions, zoning tablish a stale planning unit "to level of government _ they'll
<br />I governor's top envirofUllental and boundary changes, includ- look ahead and let peoople know only haw the power to do what:
<br />!Iide,' John Bermingham, pre.. ing annexa lion, The stale com. where the prOblems will the local governments want,
<br />licled Wednesday. mission was the most con- occur." them 10 do," he said, "Local
<br />m.""...GE Sl':S..liION Iroversial element in that bill. Such a state agency, howe\'- government wants to do the job
<br />Bermingham addressed the Vanderhoof's proposals will er, wouldn't ha\'e the broad but is now asking for more
<br />'Oth annual convention of the emphasize action in the heavily pOwers that would have been tools,"
<br />Ilorado Slate Grange Wednes- populated Front Range region. granted to the proposed com. John Stencil, president of the,
<br />, Bermingham said, and "will try mission In the defunct sa 3i7. Roc k y :'\.Iountain Farmers'
<br />to meet specific ProblE'ms in Bermingham said the propos.. Union (RMFU), and Jack Orr,
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<br />former president of the Colora-
<br />do Cattlemen's Association, also
<br />spoke at the grange panel.
<br />Stencil repeated his organiza-
<br />tion's suppotl [or land-u5e plan.
<br />ning, but warned that the
<br />problem of compensating farm-i
<br />rs who lose land value if theYI
<br />re rezoned into open spaCe
<br />lasslfications mUSt be conSid-i
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<br />:'olAV BE BE.'\EFIClAL i
<br />Such open spa~s may bej
<br />~ficial to S~t}., he said'l
<br />:and the nation ma)' need their
<br />~gricultural production _ butl
<br />the cost of preserving them
<br />should oot fall wholh' upon thel
<br />landowner. .
<br />He proposed foonation of ai
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<br />Conservation Trust Fund WhichlsUllS largely from society's ac-Ican't afford to let land prIcell
<br />OOIlld buy such land. or )ease lions in building nearby, or drop,"
<br />development rights to it. Such a locating major free\\"ays in the Orr said he was pleased with
<br />:und could be financed by all~'Jcinity. II, wouldn't apply .Io'th~ general approach Ihat Ber.
<br />capital gains tax: on land when mcreases 10 \'alue resultmg mmgham outllfle~ because "we
<br />'I changes use, he said. Ifrom impro\"ements actually want assistance (to local gov.
<br />Such a tax: wouldn't awly to made, he aid. ernment), not control."
<br />arm land which is sold andl Orr echoed Stencil's concern, Control should be kepi at the
<br />emains in farming. Rul if it is!saylng, "The only thing that local level because county com-
<br />...orth $200 an acre as fannlandjkept us (cattlemen) in business missioners can be defeated at
<br />but is sold to land developersj for the last 20 years was the the polls if they go against the
<br />or $1,000 an acre - the'appreciation in the value of our people'S will, "but )'OU can't get
<br />'unearned Increment" could be land." rid of somec>ne in a bureau-
<br />lartlallv taxed 10 finance pre. "We're betwet'n the rock and cralie system at the ballot
<br />rvalioo of other open space, the hard place, The land values box," he said.
<br />\1' said. are $(I high due to outside influ- He said the cattlemen would
<br />Such a tax would reflect the, en~s that )'ou can't afford to Oppose any regional plan which
<br />act that the increase in ,,'aluei buy it for agriculture. But we wtluld create a "super-eounIY"
<br />f tbe land, what Stencil calledl'a re mortgaged so heavily con~pt tbat would destroy th~
<br />he "unearned increment," re- (against its ,,'alue) that we tradllWnal counly go\'ernment,
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