A Mesa County District Court Judge has ruled in favor of the Las Colonias Development Corporation (LCDC) declaring that it is not subject to the Colorado Open Records Act. The ruling came after local citizen and soon-to-be-seated Grand Junction City Council Member Dennis Simpson filed a suit claiming the LCDC was effectively a part of the city and should be compelled to provide documents, specifically the leases it has with the two tenants of the Las Colonias Business Park. In the ruling, Judge Gretchen Larson issued a judgement stating the Court does not find that the development corporation is âeffectively an instrumentalityâ of the city of Grand Junction. She noted the city does not fund the development corporation and founded it was not performing a traditional city function.