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.•'' o v c O i <br /> State Representative a��••" '"'.°hyo Member: <br /> DAN NORDBERG • a� 4 o Business Aftairs&Labor <br /> Colorado State Capitol _• 2 Committee <br /> 200 East Colfax Avenue,Room 307 ,, ini 'a-:-= '; Transportation&Energy <br /> Denver,Colorado 80203x: `��� <br /> (� Committee <br /> Office:303-866-2965 :Q®��� <br /> E-mail:dan.nordberg houseastate co.us <br /> 1676 • �� <br /> oA'•.••s•.+�s+ <br /> COLORADO RECEIVED <br /> HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES <br /> State Capitol NOV 2 8 2011 <br /> Denver <br /> 80203 DIVISION OF RECLAMATION <br /> MINING AND 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 Dan Nordberg <br />