BOARD00070

• Board Meeting Date: 1/27/1999
• Description: 1999 Colorado Legislative Activities - Comprehensive Local Planning Requirements
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Specifies the planning elements that must be included in a comprehensive plan.
Requires the establishment of urban service areas, rural development areas, and rural .
areas and specifies the requirements for each. Prohibits counties and municipalities
subject to the comprehensive planning program from providing urban services
outside designated urban service areas except in certain circumstances. Specifies the
priority for providing urban services within urban service areas.

Requires counties and municipalities subject to the comprehensive planning program
to establish a transferable development credit program and specifies the requirements
for such program. .

Requires the coordination of comprehensive plans. Requires counties and
municipalities to perform their activities in conformance with their adopted
comprehensive plans. Requires state agencies and public agencies that own or operate
essential regional public facilities, school districts, and all local districts established
pursuant to state law to perform their functions in a manner consistent with adopted
comprehensive plans.

Establishes procedures, timeframes, and requirements for reviewing development
approval applications.

Creates a comprehensive planning program fund. Requires that moneys in the fund be
used to implement the comprehensive planning program. Authorizes counties and
municipalities subject to the comprehensive planning program to impose .
development impact fees in certain circumstances.

Creates a dispute resolution and appeal process for resolving conflicts.

Makes an appropriation. . .
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

SECTION 10 Article 65.1 of title 24, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended BY
THE ADDITION OF A NEW PART to read:

PART 6

RESPONSIBLE GROWTH MANAGEMENT

24-65.1-601. Legislative declaration. (1) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HEREBY
FINDS AND DECLARES THAT THE COORDINATION OF GROWTH
THROUGHOUT THE STATE IS A MATTER OF STATEWIDE INTEREST AND
CONCERN IN WHICH THE STATE HAS A RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
HEALTH, WELFARE, AND SAFETY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE AND
FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT. THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY FURTHER FINDS AND DECLARES THAT BETTER ..
COORDINATION OF GROWTH THROUGHOUT THE STATE MAY ENHANCE
THE HEALTH, WELFARE, AND SAFETY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
AND MAY FURTHER ENHANCE THE HIGH QUALITY OF LIFE ENJOYED BY

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