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Carol Harding
From: Myrna Folsom [myrna_f 2000@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 11:44 AM
To: Carol Harding
Cc: Monica Mika
Subject: MUD development
To: The Board of Weld County Commissior ers
Dear Commissioners:
The Board's continuous support of scattered urban developments throughout the MUD, and in
the future the maxi-MUD, area shows a lack of regard for sensible planning and for the welfare of Weld
residents. One of the major aspects of this lack of regard is the failure of the County to provide adequate
services to support these developments, putting that burden on other entities such as municipalities and
special districts.
With regard to supporting private property rights, 22-1-120A suggests that private property
rights should include the ability to utilize land, but does not suggest that this utilization should be for
that use that would permit the property owner to maximize his profit from that land from urban
development, mostly through sale of that land to developers, at the expense of sacrificing protection of
community health, safety and welfare.
26-1-60 states that "Due to the expense and limited available funding" obtained from "levying
property taxes and user fees", there should be an increase in efficiency in providing services. These
developments scattered through the existing and expanded MUD do not and will not lend themselves to
reducing costs or improving the efficiency of providing services.
However, now, in addition to the County's egregious support of the above policy, it is showing
that it opposes the harmonious planned, urbanization of land under the auspices of municipalities as
provided for in the Municipal Annexation Act. For instance, its support of a private waste treatment
plant and development of properties using this plant under the County MUD rather than through
municipal annexation, in competition with a municipality, reveals a County agenda that lacks
consideration for local government cooperation as recommended by statute. Especially, since this
municipality is actively moving forward to provide waste treatment for the subject land.
County government is now spending a half million dollars of taxpayer money to rationalize the
irrational; the contention that urban growth, scattered across a large area and in competition with
concentrated, planned growth in municipalities is for the benefit of the health, welfare and safety of
Weld County citizens.
John Folsom
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