FLOOD00941

• County: Statewide
• Community: State of Colorado
• Stream Name: State rivers and streams
• Title: Progress Report State Land Use Plan and Management System
• Date: 2/1/1972
• Prepared For: State of Colorado
• Prepared By: Colorado Land Use Commission
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES

The land Use Commission has been charged by the General Assembly to develop a
statewide land Use Plan and Management System. The purpose of this plan and
management system is to ensure a planned and orderly development of the state with
special emphasis on balance in future growth and attention to the preservation of the
environment and our public resources. In carrying out this charge, the land Use Com.
mission is to:

. CHARGE:
TO ENSURE THE PLANNED
AND ORDERL Y DEVELOPMENT
OF THE STATE

1.
Develop an Interim land Use Plan by September, 1972. This plan will include information
and recommendations concerning land capabilities and natural resources; existing state
and local land use controls; problems of specific economically depressed areas; local
policies concerning future development; criteria for the designation of areas of state
concern and local concern, and the authority of the state and local agencies in such
areas; documentation of state and federal growth policies and their implications for
Colorado; and some preliminary conclusions and recommendations related to land use
policy in the state.

2.
Develop a Final land Use Plan and Management System by December, 1973. This plan
will expand the coverage of the land use policy and regulation elements of the Interim
land Use Plan throughout the state and add specifications to environmental land use
planning criteria and control standards. It will include proposals for and evaluation of
significant land use proposals, such as airports and ground transportation networks. It
will provide for detailed water allocations and sewage treatment facilities planning,
state and regional recreation facilities, regional economic development plonning, en-
vironmental control, and specifications of impacts for continual plan management
procedures.

3.
Implement planning techniques, including:

. DEVELOP INTERIM LAND USE
PLAN

. DEVELOP FINAL LAND USE
PLAN

. An environmental matrix - a system of evaluating environmental problems and
the effectiveness of existing and proposed controls.

. A management matrix - a continual appraisal of current land use law and policy
at all levels of government as they affect Colorado.

. A growth monitoring system - a continual documentation and evaluation of the
amount and type of growth occurring in the state.

. Impact models - specific measures and evaluations of effects which certain ac-
tivities such as major land developments or the Olympics would have on the state,
regions, and communities.

. DEVELOP PLANNING AND
IMPLEMENT A TlON
TECHNIQUES

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