Appropriate zoning needed

Industrial and or industrial/office zoning with conditional use permits is not compatible with Eagle Rim and Las Colonias Parks, adjacent neighborhoods nor the birds and animals along the flood plain of the Colorado River.

Appropriate zoning ensures compatibility of uses in communities. Neighborhoods must always have the protection of compatible zoning. Each land parcel must go through the zoning process and a new owner does not automatically get what he demands. There is no “grandfathering in” of old zoning by the city when an area is annexed. Public hearings are held to determine the zoning.

I have lived for 28 years on Orchard Mesa and I received an official notice in January of 2007 from the city regarding the proposed request from Brady Trucking of Utah to place industrial zoning near my home. I respect property rights, but when someone willfully seeks to do something at the hurt and expense of my neighbors, my family and others, then I must act to seek a solution that is fair and reasonable for protection of our basic rights.

Those who have lived in an area for many years deserve far more consideration than those seeking financial profit by operating a business that would be far better suited in a different location.

In the past, performance standards of the old rendering plant were not adhered to and regulation was difficult. The performance standards of industrial zoning cannot be met. It is the nature of a trucking business that operates 24/7 to be excessively noisy for neighborhoods and parks. How can the noise of diesel trucks be reduced to meet performance standard criteria?

PENNY HEUSCHER
Grand Junction

Government mandates suggest fascism

Where in our Constitution is the section that authorizes the federal government to force me to purchase and install a product that is hazardous to me and my family’s health?

This product that we must begin to use in our homes and businesses in the near future is the fluorescent light bulb. We will no longer have a choice.

These bulbs contain mercury and when they break the mercury is released into the air and it can cause brain, liver and kidney damage. Go to any place that sells these bulbs and read the warning label on the back. The label gives the EPA as the source for this warning.

This section in the Constitution must be the same one that authorizes the government to tell employers how much they must pay their employees known as “minimum wage.” This, my friends, is fascism.

You may own the company, but the government tells you how to run it. Wake up, people. We must start doing something to stop the daily intrusion in to our lives.

PATRICIA BEAUCHAMP
Grand Junction

Country Jam seems to get preferential treatment

What a concept: Country Jam comes to town again, and hundreds of under-age drinkers are busted (again) and snuggled in the Blotter section of The Daily Sentinel. Yet, all of us look forward to next year.

Country Jam is a good thing! (Lot’s of money or what?)

Well, just what local venue wouldn’t have been closed down for the same complaint? Rum Bay? Boomers? The Mesa Theatre? Who are the “bad guys?” I’m not sure.

And what about “woodsies” on the desert? Maybe corporate sponsors could take advantage of these goodies.

As a thoughtful consideration, which of the local festivals, i.e. Wells Fargo Arts and Jazz, Cinco de Mayo, Colorado Wine Fest, Palisade Peach Festival and Octoberfest, would come through on an equal footing with the Country Jam? How many drunks, altercations, cops, under-age boozers and the like would it take?

Something really smells rotten.No local organization would ever be forgiven the transgressions on local laws that Country Jam has been allowed.

DENNIS WOODRICH
Grand Junction

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