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<br />WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency completed a draft floodplain <br />report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, Jefferson County, Colorado and Incorporated Areas" with <br />included Flood Insurance Rate Maps (countywide DFIRM) that is currently being reviewed by the <br />affected communities; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, said draft countywide DFIRM for Jefferson County includes lOO-year <br />floodplain delineations for the City of Lakewood that revise and supersede some of the delineations, <br />based on Letters of Map Revision (LOMRs) and other updated information, contained on said maps <br />dated January 3,1983; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, said maps dated January 3, 1983 will become essentially obsolete once the new <br />countywide DFIRM is published for Jefferson County; and <br /> <br />eR.s. AUTHORITY <br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, requires the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board to assist in the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide that <br />legislative bodies of local jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or along any <br />storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only after designation and approval by the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board to designate and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins <br />and to make such designations available to legislative bodies oflocal jurisdictions; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood did not request official CWCB designation of said maps <br />dated January 3, 1983 due to the pending countywide DFIRM, but agreed that said maps could be <br />formally acted on by the Board for informational purposes via an approved floodplain resolution; <br />and <br /> <br />COMPLIANCE WITH CWCB TECHNICAL STANDARDS <br />WHEREAS, the detailed hydrology information for the streams listed in Table 2 is <br />consistent with the requirements for detailed hydrology information listed under the Board's "Rules <br />and Regulations for the Designation and Approval of Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater <br />Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1); and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the approximate hydrology information for the streams listed in Table 3 is not <br />consistent with the requirements for approximate hydrology information listed under the Board's <br />"Rules and Regulations for the Designation and Approval of Floodplains and of Storm or <br />Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1); and <br /> <br />DESIGNATION ACTION <br /> <br />3 <br />