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Esther Gesick
From: Myrna Folsom [myrna_f2000@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday,August 17, 2006 8:04 AM
To: Esther Gesick
Cc: ben ready
Subject: county urban density development
To: Weld Board of County Commissioners
Dear Commissioners:
The Carter and Burgess report pointed out some of the negative consequences of your program of
supporting scattered urban density developments in unincorporated Weld County. Among them is that
these developments would be a financial burden on all county taxpayers as these developments would
not produce sufficient revenue to offset the cost of required services from the county and nearby
municipalities. You apparently disagree with this valid appraisal despite extensive evidence of its truth
from other sources. There follows a few of the many confirmations of this:
From Environment Colorado:
Sprawling development does not generate enough tax revenue to cover the costs it incurs on local
municipalities to provide new infrastructure and public services.
Sprawling and leapfrog developments tend to be dispersed across the land requiring longer public roads
and water and sewer lines to provide service and higher costs to police fire departments and schools..
From research by Colorado State University:
Dispersed rural residential development costs county governments and schools $1.65 in service
expenditures for every$1.00 of revenue generated.
From DRCOG:
Found that sprawling development would cost the Denver-area governments $4.3 billion more in
infrastructure costs than compact smart growth.
It is obvious from your response to the Carter and Burgess study that you have dug in your heals and
will disregard any evidence critical of your policy of permitting scattered urban density developments
throughout the unincorporated county. Possibly, that is why you don't require fiscal impact reports on
proposed developments which would reveal the truth of their negative effects on all Weld County
residents.
John Folsom
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