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Show Candidates to debate Land Use Bill The controversial issue of Utah's land use bill will be debated in Cedar City, Saturday, June 29, by one of its most knowledgeable proponents and one of its most vociferous opponents. op-ponents. Lynn Hilton, candidate for Congress in Utah's Second District, who voted for the bill in the Utah Legislature, will speak for the proposition: "Resolved: That Utahns vote 'Yes on the Utah Land Use Bill (Senate Bill 23) in November." Austin Belnap, also a congressional candidate, will speak against it. Both are Republicans. The debate will be held at 8 a.m. Saturday in the student center small ballroom on the Southern Utah State College campus. The debate is the lasLof four between the two candidates. The Salt Lake County Republican convention last week voted down a recommendation by a platform committee that county Republicans reject the land use bill in its present form. Hilton says the bill is actively supported by 28 of Utah's 29 county commissions and is badly needed to help prevent pollution of city water supplies by human sewage in areas where watersheds water-sheds cross county lines. Purpose of the bill is to create a com-i com-i mission to study areas of greater i than local concerns and make recommendations to a future legislature. Belnap opposes the bill on the i grounds it will lead to a federal land grab and that it is part of a conspiracy to destroy private property rights. |
