FLOOD02184

• Designation Number: 272
• County: Larimer
• Community: Unincorporated Larimer County
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Resolution - FPR 272 - FIS - Larimer County, Colorado, Unincorporated Areas, Volumes I - III
• Date: 3/13/1987
• Designation Date: 3/1/1987
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Resolution

WHEREAS, the new revised Flood Insurance Study for
Unincorporated Larimer County, dated March 18, 1986, is hereby
considered to be part of the new revised Flood Insurance Study
for Unincorporated Larimer County, dated March 4, 1987; and

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Larimer
County has requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board to
designate and approve the floodplain areas as set forth in the
aforesaid new report; and

WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(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 such 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 staff of the Board has reviewed said revised
information and data and does hereby recommend to the Colorado
Water Conservation Board that the Board designate and approve
as floodplain areas those areas inundated by a 100-year flood
(intermed iate regiona 1 flood) as described by the floodwa ter
surface elevations and profilesn'in sai'dnew report, and furth'er
recommends that the portions of the floodplain desiqnation for
Dry Creek from its confluence with the Cache la Poudre River
upstream to the 1978 eastern corporate limit of the ci ty of
Fort Collins, Dry Creek from the 1978 northern corporate limit
of the City of Fort Collins to a point approximately 500 feet
downstream of Shields Street, Boxelder Creek from its
confluence with the Cache la Poudre River upstream to a point
approximately 100 feet upstream of willox Lane, the Fall River
from the 1978 western corporate limit of the City of Estes Park
upstream to the eastern boundary of Rocky Mountain National
Park, the Big Thompson River from Lake F;stes upstream to the
1978 eastern corporate limit of the City of Estes Park, and the
Big Thompson River from the 1978 southwestern corporate limit
of the City of Estes Park upstream to the eastern boundary of
Rocky Mountain National Park, as approved by Resolution No.
128, adopted January 31, 1979, be rescinded;

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