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• 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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EXAMPLES OF LOCAL PLANNING INFORMA nON NOW A V AILABLE

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The following series of maps indicates the nature of a portion of this work which is con-
cerned with the acquisition and documentation of information relevent to individual
local counties.

Obviously, these maps are not intended to indicate a degree of planning and land use
control representative of all counties in Colorado, nor are they intended to portray a
totally complete land use system. EI Paso County has, through the Pikes Peak Area Coun-
cil of Governments, the EI Paso County Planning Commissions, and the Municipal Plan-
ning Commissions, conducted a more complete survey of current conditions and adopted
a wider range of policies to shape future growth than has nearly any other county in the
state. The maps a re intended to indicate the types of information and policy which such
local eHorts should provide for use by local governments, for inclusion in the interim and
Final land Use plans for Colorado, and for application to impact models such as those
which the land Use Commission staff has developed to compute the effects of alter-
native plans for development.

Further, several of the maps are examples of information which the land use Com-
mission is preparing for each county of the state, to develop information where none
exists and to upgrade or update existing information. These maps have been so noted in
the accompanying text.

As shown in the maps in Section I, other counties have developed or adopted land use in-
formation or zoning resolutions of varying quality similar to those shown on these maps.
In some cases, they are more effective than those shown here. For example, Custer and
Ouray counties have adopted zoning resolutions properly based on identified physical
characteristics of the land, which provide for a variety of development alternatives
meeting specified criteria. However, these counties lack many of the basic studies, as
well as land use policy determination necessary to utilize these resolutions con-
structively to guide appropriate development.

In addition to the data indicated on these maps the land Use Commission has developed
a file 01 local testimony concerning local issues, planning effort and controls from the
workshop meetings conducted last summer, and a file on preliminary evaluations of
adopted local plans, zoning resolutions, and subdivision resolutions. This process of
documentation and evaluation represents another important phase 01 the state plan;
that is, the integration of plans, policies, and operations of a large number of local and
state units into a coordinated land use management system.

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