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30. AGENDA 21 DEFEATED IN LA PLATA COUNTY, COLORADO

A 400 page La Plata County, Colorado “comprehensive plan” that took two years, $750,000 and 137
public meetings to produce was abolished because of its restrictions on land use and zoning. “"I'm for
planning, but I'm not for the ideological, political, social engineering that went into this document,"
Commissioner Steven Kallaher said in December, 2011. Earlier, of community concerns, he said,
"Someone who owns hundreds of acres in the county doesn't want someone living in the city who rides
a solar-powered bicycle to tell them what to do."”
http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.2/fearful-of-AGENDA-21-an-alleged-united-nations-plot-activists-
derail-land-use-planning

“With only 50,000 people in La Plata County, one wonders why La Plata County paid the non-profit
land use planning agency in Tucson, The Sonoran Institute, a total $750,000 for the 400 page
comprehensive plan. Why didn’t La Plata County Officials use their own planners to develop a
plan?...So what did the Sonoran Institute and the plan suggest? Well, of course – “smart growth,” two
words that nobody in the county wants to hear.”
http://smartgrowthusa.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/durango-colorado-la-plata-county-
comprehensive-plan/
But La Plata County still hasn’t dropped its membership in the International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives.
http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=11454
This is the Comprehensive Plan that was cancelled:
http://www.laplatacountyplan.com/updates/LPC%20CP%20april%207a%20draft%20v8.pdf

31. AGENDA 21 OUTLAWED IN TENNESSEE

“Lawmakers in Tennessee passed [House Joint Resolution 587] on March 15, 2012 condemning
United Nations AGENDA 21 as a “destructive and insidious” environmental plan to advance a
communist AGENDA under the guise of community planning. The state House of Representatives
voted 72-23 in favor of House Joint Resolution 587, which denounces the non-binding U.N. AGENDA
21 plan adopted by the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. The United Nations claims that Sustainable Development principles alleviate poverty
and combat global warming.

Resolution 587 describes Sustainable Development as a plan for “socialist/communist redistribution
of wealth” through energy conservation policies, zoning restrictions, and forced abortions…. Local
governments are bribed with federal grants to de-develop counties and bring them into compliance
with zoning rules devised by the “visioning” consensus plans of the International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), the implementation arm of U.N. AGENDA 21. These “visioning”
plans are sold to the community as the consensus [after many contrived “Delphi Technique” meetings
were held]. In reality, they are the wishes of a few informed individuals representing the interests of
the United Nations.

The local population has no knowledge or understanding of the ramifications of such plans.
Taxpayers are not given the opportunity to vote on the “fundamental transformation”
of their counties : ordinances, zoning laws, bike paths, walkways, greenbelts, conservation areas,
high-density areas, and urban boundary zones, all part of the Sustainable Development buzzwords
and goals. Once the new zoning has passed, the citizens cannot reverse the damaging effects of the
decisions already made.”
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/45312
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/HJR0587.pdf