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<br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(C), Colorado Revised Statutes, requires the <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board to assist in the prevention of floods and flood damages .. <br />therefrom; and - <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide <br />that legislative bodies of local jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on <br />or along any storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only after. designation and <br />approval by the Colorado Water Conservation Board; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-1 06( 1)( c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado <br />Water Conservation to designate and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins <br />and to make such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the detailed information in said new report relating to Big Dry Creek, <br />SlCD 6100, SlCD 6200 (North Tributary), Little's Creek from a point just downstream of <br />South Bemis Street upstream to South Brol1dway, SlCD 6200, Dutch Creek, Slaughterhouse <br />Gulch from a point just upstream of South Prince Street upstream to South Fox Street, and <br />the South Tributary of Slaughterhouse Gulch meets all of the requirements for detailed <br />information listed under the Board's "Rules and Regulations for the Designation and <br />Approval of Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR <br />408-1); and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the detailed information in said new report relating to the portion of <br />the South Platte River from the alignment of Fairway Lane in the Town of Columbine <br />Valley, as extended to the east, upstream to the southern corporate limit of the City of <br />Littleton as of September 29, 1989, does not meet all of the requirements for detailed <br />floodplain information listed under the BOl1rd's "Rules and Regulations for the Designation <br />and Approval of Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 <br />CCR 408-1) but does meet all the requir~ments for approximate floodplain information <br />listed under those Rules and Regulations; and <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the approximate information in said new report relating to the portion <br />of the South Platte River from the northern corporate limit of the City of Littleton as of <br />September 29, 1989, upstream to the alignment of Fairway Lane in the Town of Columbine <br />Valley, as extended to the east, meets all of the requirements for approximate floodplain <br />information listed under the Board's "Rules and Regulations for the Designation and <br />Approval of Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR <br />408-1); and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, it is appropriate that immediately before the adoption of this Resolution <br />the significance of the rescission of a portion of Floodplain Resolution No.1, the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board's first Floodplain Resolution which has been in effect for over <br />25 years and which marked the beginning of an important phase in the history of the <br />Board's Floodplain Management Program, should be noted; <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br />e <br />