WSP10139

• File Number: 8059
• Description: Section D General Studies-State Water Plan
• State: CO
• Date: 12/1/1973
• Author: COLandUseCommission
• Title: Land Use Planning-A Report by the Colorado Land Use Commission-A Land Use Program for Colorado-Summary Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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· The land-use program delivery system should have new powers; and
it shoultl bring together existing agencies with their present powers.

The Commission recommends a three-tier organization for land-use programs.11 At
the top is the State land Use Agency, cooperating with existing State agencies
and having broatler land-use responsibilities than ar.c now held by a single government
entity. At the next level are the five regional agencies, which for the most part coincide
with the botindaries of two or more of tile present Planning Management Districts
(PMOs), with which the regional agencies will work closely. At the loca\ level are county
and municipal governments, which may request technical assistance from the regional
.or State agencies, as appropriate. The State should be prepared to provide funding
assistance for local-level planning agencies.

The State Land Use A!;cncy will have four broad areas of responsibility:

. (l) Regulation and guidance by means of a permit program and comprehensive

planning.

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(2) Positive inducements. to guide tandouse.ctevetopment,'IlCitUlfng coordination
of State capital improvement projects \vith .regional and local development,
coordi".ationcif federally aided projects through strengthened A-95 review, .
land acquisition and exchange through the Special Land.Agency to provide
land for open space, acquisition of key sites to provide land for hOl!.~ing,.
. . flexible tax policies, and inducements for location growth donteis.

(3)

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,ying land-use regulation to environm.ental protection and pollution
abatement through formal working relationships with those agencies
responsible for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act.

(4)

Tying land-use regulation to natural resource regulation through formal
working arrangements with the State Department of Natural Resources and
Agriculture and their counterpart federal agencies (e.g., Forest Service, Bureau
of Land Management, pepartments of Agriculture and InteriorL.m. ._.._... ..._..

The formal working relationships called for in the last two areas should be established
within the fmmework of an Interagency Council composed of representatives of all State
agencies whose activities impact upon land use.

17CRS Ch. 106, Art 4, g 3, 11(h): ...... The commission ~h:J1I specific~IlY include in its I:md use planning progr.:un the
Joles, responsibilities, and authority of the variOUs. ~e1fets and agencies of gO'leroments.."

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