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PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULED TO REVIEW CODE REVISION SUGGESTIONS
The Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing to begin prioritizing suggested changes to the land use code on Monday, October 10, 2005, at 6:00 PM in the Commissioner’s Hearing room on the Third Floor of the Boulder County Courthouse. At the hearing, County staff will give a presentation regarding the Land Use Code Update Project and the prioritization of issues identified for inclusion in the Code update. The Board of County Commissioners will take public testimony regarding the priority in which issues should be addressed. Individual testimony will be limited to three minutes. Members of organized groups who wish to make a group presentation may pool time to make a group presentation. County staff is preparing materials for the Commissioners consideration at the hearing. The materials will be posted on the website (http://www.co.boulder.co.us/lu/code) by October 1, 2005. More than 230 discrete amendments have been suggested by county, staff, boards, departments, residents and the commissioners in each of the code’s eighteen sections.

TWO-THIRDS OF COUNTY LAND CONTROLLED BY GOVERNMENTS
A source of pride, and concern. No one who’s lived in Boulder County for very long would be surprised to learn that 66 percent of all land in the county is owned or controlled by federal, state and local governments. The numbers were generated by the City of Longmont at the request of Mayor Julia Pirnack. Protecting that amount of the total land in the county is a source of pride for many residents and government officials. On the other hand, some are expressing concern, and blame the lack of private land ownership for high home prices in many county communities. Boulder County owns 89,303 acres, the City of Boulder owns 43,018 acres and the federal government manages 171,278 acres. Of the total of 474,320 acres in the county, government controls 311,370 acres.