Front Range Toll Road and HB 1007
You have a duty to vote against HB-1007. Here’s why:
Colorado Constitution Article II Sec. 3 "...that of acquiring, possessing and protecting property..."
Sec. 25 "That no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
Article V Sec. 25 " The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws...; for...laying out, opening, altering or working roads or highways; regulating county or township affairs; granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay down railroad track; granting to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever."
Article XIV corporations> Sec. 8 " The right of eminent domain shall never be abridged, nor so construed as to prevent the General Assembly from taking the property and franchises of incorporated companies and subjecting them to public use, the same as the property of individuals; and the police powers of the State shall never be abridged, or so construed as to permit corporations to conduct their business in such manner as to infringe the equal rights of individuals, or the general well-being of the State."
Sec. 12. The General Assembly shall pass no law for the benefit of railroad or other corporation, or any individual, or association of individuals, retrospective in its operation, or which imposes on the people of any county or municipal subdivision of the State, a new liability in respect to transactions or considerations already past.
My review of HB-1007 deems it necessary to quash completely, and the honoring of pre-existing laws - protecting the rights of property owners - be enforced posthaste.
Today, the General Assembly has a duty to re-new its promise to honor Colorado's State Constitution by absolute assurance: No "private property owner should be deprived of (their) life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
Private property owners in the State of Colorado should never be subjected to un-solicited action(s) that:
a) Cloud title.
b) Diminish land value.
c) Create liabilities.
d) Infringe the equal rights.
e) Disallow owners right to use property in present, or future ways they desire.
In addition to violation to the Constitution of the State of Colorado, there appears an economic crime generated not by any doings of property owner or act of God. Economic crime in that properties have been devaluated by un-solicited actions of others. In this particular case, said un-solicited actions by Front Range Toll Road Company can be directly tied to 20% devaluation of properties laying in proximate to said roads area.
It is the duty of General Assembly to:
a) Bring the Front Range Toll Road Company before this body.
b) Demand their immediate removal of any writings or activities that in any way obstruct property owners rights by encumbered usage, cloud, or devaluation.
c) Demand there be a real dollar conversion of the 20% property devaluation, and full compensations - determined by a formula which includes past and present activity time frames - be made to each property owner within three months after today, April 9, 2008
Thank you,
Roni Bell Sylvester
P.O. Box 155
La Salle, CO 80645
970-284-6874