FLOOD01061

• Designation Number: 371
• County: Boulder
• Community: Lafayette
• Title: Flood Insurance Study - Lafayette, CO, Boulder County
• Date: 9/1/1979
• Designation Date: 9/1/1994
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

WHEREAS, the detailed floodplain information within the corporate limits of the City of '_
Lafayette was not designated and approved by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in Resolution .,
No. 337; and

WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Flood Hazard Area Delineation, Bullhead
Gulch and Tributaries" dated July 1991 has been prepared by Advanced Sciences, Inc.uIider contract
to the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District; and

WHEREAS, said report includes detailed floodplain information for Bullhead Gulch and
Tributaries within the corporate boundaries of the City of Lafayette; and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as requested by the City of Lafayette,
Colorado, Boulder County and the UD&FCD, by Resolution No. 317, adopted on November 14, 1991,
designated and approved the floodplains described in said report; and

WHEREAS, a floodplain information report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, City of Lafayette,
Colorado" dated September 1979 has been prepared by Howard, Needles, Tammen and Bergendoff, Inc.
under contract to the Federal Insurance Administration; and

WHEREAS, said report includes detailed floodplain information for those portions of Coal Creek
and Rock Creek within the corporate limits of the City of Lafayette, as they were in September 1979;
and

WHEREAS, the detailed floodplain information in said report dated September 1979 is consistent
with the detailed floodplain information in the report previously designated by Resolution No, 66; and

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WHEREAS, the City of Lafayette, Colorado, has requested the Colorado Water Conservation
Board to designate and approve the floodplains set forth in said report; and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(l)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, requires the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to assist in the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom; and

WHEREAS, Sections 31,23-301 and 30,28,111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide that
legislative bodies of local jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or along any
storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only after designation and approval by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board; and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to designate and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins and to make
such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS, the information in the report dated September 1979 meets all of the requirements
for detailed information listed under the Board's "Rules and Regulations for the Designation and
Approval of Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1); e

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