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

SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE LAND USE COM-
MISSION

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3.
STATE LAND MANAGEMENT AND CONTROLS TODAY

. STATUS

The Management Matrix study of state agencies now being conducted by the land Use
Commission staff (see Section 111) indicates a rather narrow range of coverage with
respect to the currently assigned activities of state departments and divisions. Existing
state agencies need a broadening of their operational responsibilities and more specific
standards and criteria related to the environmental concerns of land utilization
throughout the state. The Commission is addressing this problem as an immediate action
procedure in (1) the recommended revisions to Chapter 106; (2) the proposed land
Sales Act; and (3) incorporation of the powers and duties of the office of the Coordinator
of Environmental Problems as part of the land Use Commission activities. The Com.
mission continues to place considerable emphasis on its Management Matrix study,
which will evaluate the environmental control coverage of existing state agencies and
the need for additional operations and administrative policy, in line with the land Use
Commission's adopted policy of utilizing and strengthening existing state agencies, and
recommends that state land development and economic policy remain an active function
of the Governor's office, in close association with the land Use Commission.

. DEVELOPMENT OF
RECOMMENDATIONS

The Colorado land Use Commission has been charged by the state legislature to develop
a lane Use Management System, including a state plan, for the State of Colorado which
will involve all levels of government. The legislative charge states that the Commission
shall work diligently toward strengthening the decision-making process, regarding the
use of land, at the lowest level of government possible. Subsequent materials provide
detailed information on the Commission's activities and resultant recommendations to
date.

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During the summer of 1971, the land Use Commission and representatives of fou rteen
citizen groups and public agencies conducted thirty workshop meetings throughout the
state, attended by over 3,000 public officials and active citizens. The format for these
meetings included presentation by the land Use Commission of the current land use
legislation and local responsibilities and powers in land use planning and control. This
was then followed with presentations by representatives of the other participating
groups who stated, first, their point of view toward land use problems in the locality and
the state and, second, their concepts of the appropriate means of addressing these
problems.

. WORKSHOP MEETINGS