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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 />~~Ft^EI>!F_~ <br />NOV 0 ~ 1994 <br />;l'a(~s~nn ai ;~Ainerals R Geoiogv <br />p0~~~o~ 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 within our sociaUeconomic structures. <br />Several months ago United Companies of Grand Junction misrepresented their plan(s), and opened 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 facilRy, as <br />above. <br />Now Unted 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, HEAW 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 R had been originally projected to exist for about 10 years. <br />We have Louisiana Pac'rfic 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 residentiaUscenic 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 />citizenry, or they turn a blind eye to the true human misery and suffering our fellow citizens are now enduring. <br />! rec~.nt!y ccined th? ~rr_+n~m ~±~~'s inc in eohc of .... tl~hatever?) for GOOD OLD BOYS. I intend this <br />acronym to depict Locker/Lunch/Dinner Room Politics as completely conducive to implementing public apathy, cynicism, <br />and frustration toward levels that result in, on the average, a more and more violent sociaVeconomic climate. <br />There was a time when there were honorable, compassionate persons formulating public policy conducive to true <br />betterment of us all. Now, ft seems that, (I know you have heard this many times, now here d is again), blind greed <br />supplants even minimal consideration of the social/environmental impacts -with the sick philosophy of 'The end justifies <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 />ery truly yo s, <br />r <br />Jerome L. Shain- ~ '~' <br />c.c. State of Colorado, Division of Minerals and Geology. <br />