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<br />2.4. Governmental Organization <br /> <br />Coping with floods in Colorado involves cooperation of many <br />types of public and private institutions and all levels of. <br />government--federal, state, regional, county, city, and town. <br /> <br />2.4.1 City and Town Government <br /> <br />Local governments are free to draw upon any and all <br />authority delegated by the General Assembly, and home rule cities <br />derive additional authority from their charters. The statutory <br />authori ties available to local governments include the power to <br />plan, to regulate uses within their boundaries (zoning, sub- <br />divison, "matters of state interest" and the extensive list <br />contained in H.B. 1034), to regulate certain activities outside <br />their jurisdictions, and to contract with other jurisdictions. <br /> <br />2.4.2 County Government <br /> <br />The Legislature has placed the majority of land use respon- <br />sibil i ty and control at the local level of government. Count ies <br />and municipalities have the duty to prepare and adopt comprehen- <br />sive plans for the physical development of their respective <br />jurisdictions (30-28-106 and 31-23-206, CRS 1973). A planning <br />commission and adopted subdivision regulations have been required <br />of counties since 1972 (30-28-133). The establishment of plan- <br />ning commissions and the regulation of subdivisions is optional <br />for municipalities (31-23-202, 214). <br /> <br />2.4.3 Regional Planning Agencies <br /> <br />The need for interjurisdictional cooperation is becoming <br />increasingly evident as areas on the urban fringe of munici- <br />palities continue to develop. The few interjurisdictional <br />cooperative efforts presently known to exist vary from sharing a <br />planning staff, to adopting joint plans, to establishing urban <br />service area boundaries and agreeing upon the nature of devlop- <br />ments that should occur therein. Some of the most innovative <br />efforts include those between Aspen-pitkin County, Pueblo-Pueblo <br />County, Fort Collins-Loveland-Larimer County, Boulder-Boulder <br />County and Summit County-incorporated municipalities. <br /> <br />On June 14, 1969, the Colorado General Assembly passed the <br />Urban Drainage and Flood Control Act which created the Urban <br />Drainage and Flood Control District to manage multigovernmental <br />flood problems in the Denver metro area. <br /> <br />-46- <br />