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Carol Harding
From: Myrna Folsom [myrna_f 2000@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:27 AM
To: Carol Harding
Subject: MUD
To: Board of County Commissioners of Weld County
Dear Commissioners: What follows is a copy of a letter that I have submitted to the Daily Times-Call in
response to an editorial published on January 5. I hope this does not reduce my chances of being
appointed to a Focus Group or other citizens' committee related to the MUD Scope Area Update study.
John Folsom
7050 Loma Linda Ct.
Longmont CO 80504
303 833 2992
January 5, 2005
To the Editor:
Referring to the recent Times-Call editorial, indeed, the City should be looking to the east. It is
unfortunate that the City did not take the necessary steps, years ago, when it had the opportunity to
control development in this portion of Weld County's MUD district. These steps would have included
this area in the City's Comprehensive Plan for future urban growth, rather than relegating it to a vague
St. Vrain Valley Planning Area designation, and including all of this area in the City's Coordinated
Planning Agreement intergovernmental growth area with Weld County. Indeed, the City at one time
averred that it had no interest in developing to I-25 at Del Camino, unlike Fort Collins, Loveland, Erie,
Thornton and Westminster, which have had the foresight to assure their control of growth to the east of
their core boundaries to the interstate.
Now, Weld County government, for whatever unclear reasons, is actively pursuing urban
development in the area, under County rather than municipal control. It is now trying to justify this by a
$500,000 study under the guise of achieving coordination between the interested local governments.
This alleged goal is contradicted by the County radically increasing the size of the MUD district,
approving scattered urban developments throughout the MUD district and competing with
municipalities for approval of urban development contiguous to those municipalities.
City officials: the horse has been stolen; you left the barn door open all of these years. There will
be a public meeting held in February for input into the County's MUD district study. I hope to see some
City officials there armed with proof of the negative effects to all, if the County continues its policy of
permitting chaotic urban growth .
John Folsom
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