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22222 Government Springs Road <br />Montrose, CO 81401-8511 <br />Nov. 5, 1995 <br />(303)240-4972 <br />The Honorable Roy Romer <br />Govemor, State of Colorado <br />136 State Capitol Building <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Dear Governor Romer; <br />III IIIIIIIIIIIII III <br />p0o~~3~Q break the chains validating human suffering and <br />misery as prerequisites for economic expansion. <br />I wouldn't bother you with this except that I believe that the herein described situation is a significant contributing factor <br />engendering our problems recognized as exponentially increasing violence wfthin our sociaVeconomic structures. <br />Several months ago United Companies of Grand Junction misrepresented their plan(s), and ep?ned a gravel pit cum <br />asphalt plant, right in the middle of a residential area, just north of Colona, on the East side of US Highway 550. <br />My frustration, cynicism, disgust, apathetic resignation concerning this development are sever, but they doesn't even hold <br />a candle to those same maladies being experienced by Colorado residents living immediately adjacent to this facility, as <br />above. <br />Now United Companies of Grand Junction is requesting that it be allowed to expand their 27 acre 70,000 toNyear plant to <br />80 acre 200,000 tons/year, and increase the daily VERY LARGE, HEAVY truck utilization of a crowded, rather narrow, <br />along this section of, US Highway 550, to 140 of these trucks per day. This situation is now expected to continue well <br />into the Twenty First Century whereas it had been originally projected to exist for about 10 years. <br />We have Louisiana Pacific fouling the air and scenery around Olathe. Now we also have United fouling the air and, <br />formerly, spectacular scenic corridor and residential segment along US Highway 550. <br />I know you are dedicated to bringing Colorado into the Twenty First Century as a powerhouse in economic and domestic <br />respects. But when a significant number of the people of this great state become so adversely impacted by dastardly <br />expansionary development at, and in virtually ALL residentiaVscenic areas of Colorado, those people are now and will be <br />tending toward violence. This is especially true when your various governmental organs either ignore the RIGHTS of our <br />cRizenry, or they turn a blind eye to the true human misery and suffering our fellow citizens are now enduring. <br />I recently coined the acronym ~ s (As in gobs of..... whatever?) for_OOD _LD _OYS. I intend this <br />acronym to de;.IC1 LccI:eCLumch; Cinmer Ficorl °o!. cs as ccmp!etely cond:.'c^1e to !mpl~merling public apathy, cynicism. <br />and frustration toward levels that result in, on the average, a more and more violent sociaUeconomic climate. <br />There was a time when there were honorable, compassionate persons formulating public policy conducive to true <br />betterment of us all. Now, it seems that, (I know you have heard this many times, now here it is again), blind greed <br />supplants even minimal consideration of the social/environmental impacts -with the sick philosophy of 'The end justHies <br />the means". <br />This gravel pit cum asphalt plant is subject to public comment until 5:00 pm, Thursday, Nov. 10, 1994, With <br />comments directed to your Division of Minerals and Geology. <br />V ry truly y r , <br />,~'U Gtr <br />eeome L. Shain <br />c.c. State of Colorado, Division of Minerals and Geology. <br />