To: Ron Stewart, Jana Mendez, and Paul Danish

Dear Boulder County Commissioners:

I and my wife are property owners of vacant land in Boulder County. We are opposed to the adoption of Docket DC-98-08 for the following reasons:

1) The county did not notify landowners of this proposed change in regulation in time to do something about it. In fact we learned of this through a mailing from another landowner before the county informed us.

2) The county does not have the right to unreasonably interfere with our ability to build.

3) Attempts to date to regulate building by various slopes have been shown to be totally arbitrary and not based on scientific fact. The regulations in Docket DC-98-08 are not based on scientific fact.

4) We feel there is another agenda present here than the protection of the environment and concern for hazards. The designers of this Docket will be indirectly forcing landowners with slopes over 20% to sell their land at the county's price. Taxpayers money will of course be used to do this with the proposed taxing district in mountain areas. So in essence mountain landowners might be paying to have their own land bought from them so the county can do with it as they wish.

We oppose this regulation and request that you not adopt it. We oppose any proposal forming a new taxing district in mountain areas to raise funds to purchase developing rights or any property. We are also opposed to any creation of zoning areas concerning slope regulations.

Respectfully,

Barclay Totten and

Elaine Alarcon-Totten