Bill Summary for Bill Number SB06-053

Date: 03/07/2006

Final
BILL SUMMARY for SB06-053

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Votes: View-->	Action Taken:
Refer the bill to the Committee of the Whole. The	PASS

01:49 PM -- Senate Bill 06-053

Representative Lindstrom, bill sponsor, provided an explanation of the provisions of SB 06-053 that expand the size of a residential lot for the purposes of weed removal by the county.

01:51 PM

Rob Coney, Adams County Planning Director, spoke in support of the bill explaining that under current law, counties only remove weeds from residential lots that are one acre or less. He further explained that there are pieces of land in more populated rural subdivisions that are bigger than one acre that should have the same right to weed removal as urban subdivisions.

01:52 PM

Pat Ratliff, Colorado Counties, Inc., spoke in support of the bill. She explained that the current one acre trigger for the county to perform weed removal is 25 to 30 years old and that the lots on which newer homes are built are larger in size than those built when the current acreage specification was put into the law.

01:55 PM

Representative Lindstrom provided closing comments on the bill.


BILL:	SB06-053
TIME:	01:55:58 PM
MOVED:	Lindstrom
MOTION:	Refer the bill to the Committee of the Whole. The motion carried on a 10-0-1 roll call vote.
SECONDED:	Berens
		VOTE
	Berens	Yes
	Cerbo	Yes
	Curry	Excused
	Decker	Yes
	Massey	Yes
	Merrifield	Yes
	Soper	Yes
	Stafford	Yes
	Stengel	Yes
	Lindstrom	Yes
	Hodge	Yes
Final YES: 10 NO: 0 EXC: 1 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS