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(Colo. 1971)(to overcoine a presumption of validity, invalidity must be established <br />beyond a reasonable doubt); Sundance Ass'n v. Arapahoe County, 534 P.2d 1212, 1217 <br />(Colo. 1975)(burden is "beyond a reasonable doubt" to overcome presumptively valid <br />rezoning decisions); City and County of Denver v. Board of Adjustment for City and <br />County of Denver, 55 F.3d 252, 254 (Colo. App. 2002)(administrative proceedings are <br />given "presumption of validity" and a11 reasonable doubts must be resolved in favor of <br />the agency); Lomax v. Cronin, 575 P.2d 1285, 1286 (Colo. 1978)(must overcome <br />"presumption of validity" afforded by Governor's warrant by "cleaz and convincing <br />evidence"); Augustin v. Barnes, 626 P.2d 625, 628 (Colo. 1981). <br />All reasonable doubts as to the correctness of the CWCB determinations must be <br />resolved in favor of the agency. City and County of Denver v. Board of Adjustment for <br />City and County of Denver, 55 P.3d 252, 254 (Colo. App. 2002). A party challenging a <br />presumptively valid finding bears the burden of overcoming that presumption, and courts <br />"indulge every intendment in favor of its validity." Bird v. City of Colorado Springs, 489 <br />P.2d 324, 325-26 (Colo. 1971); Snyder Family Trust v. Adams County Bd. of <br />Equalization, 835 P.2d 579, 581 (Colo. App. 1992); Arapahoe Partnership v. Board of <br />County Commissioners, 813 P.2d 766. <br />This Court should not overturn the CWCB's presumptively valid findings of the <br />CWCB, which are supported by the record, unless there is cleaz and convincing evidence <br />showing that those determinations were in error beyond a reasonable doubt, and any <br />questions as to the correctness of that fmding must be resolved in favor of the CWCB. <br />7