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A\s()_, <br /> of "to <br /> State Representative e.•.'"'�"'•. Member: <br /> ro\cLARRY LISTON y6, • '=o\ Local Government <br /> Colorado State Capitol ,. Committee <br /> • • <br /> 200 East Colfax Avenue.Loom 307 # ;, �.1 ontiNitthbirPublic Health Care&Human <br /> ML SINE <br /> Denver,Colorado'3203 m+ .�� NmNNE t w 1,0 <br /> Services Committee <br /> Office:303-866-2937 ��\©®;'4; <br /> E-mail:larry.liston.house@state.co.us ,,,6 ,.' e <br /> � .r.o****. EpIL•••%�c <br /> REPR�g <br /> ...MM <br /> D <br /> COLORADO RECEIVE <br /> HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NQ4 28 2.011 <br /> State Capitol <br /> Denver10N OF RECLAMA1'i©N <br /> 80203 D U1G AND <br /> SAfr <br /> To Whom It May Concern: <br /> As a state representative from El Paso County, I write in support of Transit Mix's application to <br /> open a quarry on the privately owned Hitch Rack Ranch in southwestern El Paso County. <br /> In the short term, Transit Mix has offered to confer on the Pikes Peak region several major <br /> benefits if permitted a quarry on Hitch Rack Ranch: (1) Transit Mix will close Pikeview Quarry <br /> ahead of schedule, allowing its reclamation to be blended with the revegetation of the Waldo <br /> Canyon burn scar; (2) Transit Mix will close Black Canyon quarry ahead of schedule; (3) Transit <br /> Mix will repurpose Pikeview and Black Canyon properties for public use; and (4) Transit Mix <br /> will close its N. Nevada Ave. and Costilla St. batch plants, which have become inconvenient to <br /> the dense neighborhoods that have grown up around them. <br /> In the longer term, a quarry on Hitch Rack Ranch is critical to our region's prosperity. Transit <br /> Mix currently provides approximately 25% of the aggregate and 40% of the concrete purchased <br /> in Colorado Springs. If it were denied permits for Hitch Rack Ranch and forced to haul <br /> aggregate from outside the county, aggregate and concrete prices would rise. Those increases, in <br /> turn, would generate increases in a wide range of costs, from home prices, which already have <br /> spiked in Colorado Springs, to public infrastructure, which already is strained statewide. A <br /> Transit Mix quarry at Hitch Rack Ranch would serve the taxpayer and the consumer by keeping <br /> aggregate and concrete costs low. <br /> Although there will always be opposition to quarry operations, most of the Pikes Peak region <br /> stands behind Transit Mix's proposal. For the community as a whole, its benefits outweigh its <br /> costs by enormous orders of magnitude. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> IPPP <br /> RarP 41. <br /> State Representative Larry Liston <br />