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• Board Meeting Date: 9/18/2007
• Description: Flood Section - State Hazard Mitigation Plan - Flood Chapter Update - FEMA Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

of matters of state interest on the basis of current and developing
information; and (b) provide technical assistance to local governments
concerning designation of and guidelines for matters of state interest. (2)
Primary responsibility for the recommendation and provision of technical
assistance functions described in subsection (1) of this section is upon: (a)
the Colorado Water Conservation Board, acting in cooperation with the
Colorado Soil Conservation Board, with regard to floodplains; (b)... ...."

1974 - House Bill 1034, c.R. S. 29-20-201, et seq., 1974, is the "Local Government
Land Use Control Enabling Act. The act gives authority to local governments to plan and
regulate the use of land within their jurisdictions, including regulating development and
activities in hazardous areas.

1970 - Colorado Land Use Act - c.R.S. ~ 24-65-101, 25-65-105. Model resolutions -
subdivisions - improvement notices. (2)(a) The commission shall, after consultation with
its advisory committee, develop model resolutions to serve as guidelines for boards of
county commissioners, city councils, town boards, and special districts and authorities in
developing land uses and constmction controls within designated floodways. (b) The
commission shall, in its progress report, due F ebmary 1, 1972, designate critical areas in
the state where a one hundred-year (storm return frequency) floodway should be
identified and shall aid the state agencies and local governments having jurisdiction over
such critical areas in adopting a program for such identification. The purpose of
identifying a floodway is to insure that life and propeIiy are protected, that the
expenditure of public funds to clean up flood damage is kept to a minimum, that a high
volume of water nmoff can be accommodated, and that impediments to this flow are held
to a minimum. The commission shall designate critical conservation and recreation areas
and recommend state involvement in land use in such areas. (c) The commission shall
include a report on land uses and constmction within floodways in its interim and final
land use planning programs.

1966 - House Bill 1007 - Flood Control - Planning and Zoning. State approval and
designation of storm mnoff channels and basins.

1963 - C.R.S. ~ 139-59-7. "The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding
and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the
municipality and its environs, which will, in accordance with present and future needs,
best promote health, safety, ...., and general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy

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