BOARD00226

• Board Meeting Date: 4/1/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

per se as other zoning exists. It is actually
flood plain regulation. It does not change the
zoning that now exists on the land but it is a
regulation that says that certain types of
construction or development can take place in I'
there without changing the zoning but subject to
certain regulations as far as the buildings are
concerned and flood proofing and this type of
thing. So it is not zoning in the strict sense
of the word.

I think another thing that is paramount
here is that if we don't do this locally for
ourselves the way we think we should be doing
it, I think we are looking at the fact that
the urban Drainage District does have the power
to zone which was created a year ago.

It seems to me we also have the Land Use
Commission getting started that no doubt is
going to have some say in these matters. I
guess in the final analysis if we don't do
these things for ourselves locally the way we
think they ought to be done, then I think that
the state is going to do it for us in some
future time. As far as dams go, I think that
dams in a sense give a false sense of security.
TOO many people think that because there is a
dam upstream they are protected from the flood
and this I am sure can be proven to be other-
wise. I think dams for a multi-purpose use,
including other uses and including flood control,
are thoroughly desirable.

As an example of what this development
costs, the City of Boulder is going to make
what they call a Boulder pilot study to over-
come some of the problems as a result of devel- I
opment there in a rather small area and to
overcome some of these problems now we are
looking at a cost up there that runs anywhere
from $200,000 to $800,000 per mile. In a rather
small area it is going to take better than $7
million to Overcome some of those problems up
there and I think just recently the city of