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COLORADO F LOllII CONTROL NIl llllAIIWlE l.AIIS TOPIC TITLE STATUTES PURPOSES RELATED TOPICS SPECIAL POWERS AREAS AND ACTIVITIES OF STATE INTEREST 24-65.1-101--502 (original enactment 1974) The General Assembly here describes areas and activities of State interest and establishes the criteria for their management. This statute also allows and encourages local governments to designate these areas and activities and provides for State agency assistance to local government. The basic purpose of this statute is to force broader consideration of the impacts concerning development. This additional authority will enable local governments to regulate the development impacts to a greater extent with the use of a permitting process (sometimes called "Section 1041 permitting" after the bill's section. before codification of the act into the C.R.S.). See county and municipal planning and zoning topics. Colorado Land Use Commission, Topic IV D, and see also, not covered here, 24-32-111, Department of Local Affairs, and 29-20-101--107, "Local Government Land Use Enabling Act", granting additional authority for zoning and restriction in hazardous areas. The General Assembly has defined a variety of areas and activities of State interest as categories from which local governments may designate specific areas and activities to be administered under this statute; the legislative definitions are extensive (see below) (24-65.1-103, -104). All State agencies which may grant or deny a permit for development in an area or activity of State interest are directed to develop rules and regulations for response to permit applications, and for response for any hearings, and shall apply this statute (24-65.1-108). Local governments under procedures specified in the statute (24-65.1-201) may designate areas of State interest such as: o mineral resource areas, o natural hazard areas, o areas having or containing historical, natural or archaeological resources of Statewide importance, I-D-l