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lLl <br /> ."' ovcoi <br /> State Representative �� ..........°P <br /> PAUL LUNDEEN A� S `•. Member: <br /> Education Committee <br /> Colorado State Capitol • • ) Judiciary Committee <br /> 200 East Colfax Avenue,Room 307 <br /> Denver,Colorado 80203 o �� ,IN r m <br /> Office:303-866-2924 0 . <br /> ' ®" <br /> E-mail:pauLlundeeppouse@state.co.us <br /> state.co.us � 1816 <br /> yam REPB�g <br /> NwN <br /> COLORADO <br /> V/ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RECEIVED <br /> k State Capitol RECEIVED <br /> �/ <br /> V \ Denver <br /> 80203 NOV 2 8 2017 <br /> MAN OF R,�ECLAINAT1014 <br /> MlNJN aANQ SAFETY <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 /> State Representative Paul Lundeen <br />