-The Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Club is in favor of
the following bills with a few small revisions. We
would like a conservationist as well as a farmer on
the board and committees and would like agricultural
land preserved,not just prime agricultural land slated
for agricultural production. Nevertheless these are
the best bills to prevent Urban Sprawl and have a
chance for passage in several years.

Charlie Winterwood
Chapter chair

> HF2178 and SF2088 are the 2002 remake of the
> Comprehensive Land Use
> Management legislation that has been in the
> legislature the past three years.
>
> SF 2088 is sponsored by Republican Senators Andy
> McKean and Mary Lundby and
> Democratic Senators Bill Fink and Johnie Hammond.
> The bill was assigned to
> the Senate Local Government Committee and a
> sub-committee of David Miller,
> Jeff Angelo and Gene Fraise.
>
> An identical bill in the House, HF 2178, is
> sponsored by Republican
> Representatives Danny Carroll, Clarence Hoffman,
> Betty Grundberg, Scott
> Raecker, Dave Heaton, Jodi Tymeson, Barbara Finch,
> Dan Boddicker, Steve
> Sukup, David Johnson, Willard Jenkins and Democratic
> Representatives Ed
> Fallon, John Connors, Becky Reynolds, Geri Huser,
> Mark Tremmel, Bill
> Witt, Mark Kuhn, Bill Dotzler, Steve Richardson,
> Frank Chiodo, Jack
> Hatch, Pam Jochum, Dick Myers and Jane Greimann.
>
> The first hurdle is for the bill to be voted out of
> either the House
> Local Government Committee or Senate Local
> Government Committee by
> February 22nd.  That is the deadline (or
> “funnel”) for all bills to be
> voted out of a House or Senate committee.


Senate Standing Committee Membership


Local Government


*       David Miller (R, District 47), Chair
*       Jeff Angelo (R, District 44), Vice Chair
*       Steven Hansen (D, District 1), Ranking Member
*       Merlin Bartz (R, District 10)
*       Dennis Black (D, District 29)
*       Eugene Fraise (D, District 50)
*       Mary Lou Freeman (R, District 5)
*       E. Thurman Gaskill (R, District 8)
*       Wally Horn (D, District 27)
*       Hubert Houser (R, District 43)
*       Matt McCoy (D, District 34)
*       Larry McKibben (R, District 32)
*       Mark Zieman (R, District 16)


>
> 1000 Friends of Iowa is supportive of both bills.
>
> LaVon Griffieon
> 1000 Friends of Iowa



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