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<br />.."1 ~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />111 - <br /> <br />Untitled <br /> <br />Page 1 of25 <br /> <br />Click Here for Fiscal Note <br /> <br />First Regular Session <br />Sixty-second General Assembly <br />LLS NO. 99-0340.01 Jane Ard-Smith HOUSE BILL 99-1185 <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />BY REPRESENTATIVE Sullivant <br /> <br />LOCAL GOVERNMENT <br /> <br /> <br />APPROPRIATIONS <br /> <br />A BILL FOR AN ACT <br />CONCERNING COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS <br />TO MANAGE URBAN GROWTH, AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION <br />THEREFOR. <br /> <br />Bill Summary <br /> <br />(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not necessarily <br />reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.) <br /> <br />Creates a comprehensive planning program designed to require certain local <br />governments to develop a comprehensive plan and to develop urban service area <br />boundaries. Requires counties with a population greater than 25,000 or that have <br />experienced a cumulative population growth of 20% or more over the previous 9 <br />years to participate in the comprehensive planning program. Requires municipalities <br />to participate in the comprehensive planning program if the municipality has a <br />population greater than 2,500 and if 50% or more of the municipality's land area lies <br />within a county required to participate in the comprehensive planning program. <br />Requires a county to participate in the comprehensive planning program if 60% or <br />more of the general purpose governments within such county elect to participate in <br />such program. Authorizes any other county or municipality to elect to participate in <br />the comprehensive planning program. Requires the department oflocal affairs to <br />notify all counties and municipalities that are required to participate in the <br />comprehensive planning program and maintain and publish a list of planning <br />jurisdictions. <br /> <br />Requires each county and irti.lI1icipality subject to the comprehensive planning <br />program to adopt a comprehensive plan and an urban service area no later than 3 <br />years after the date of the department of local affairs' written notice. Requires each <br />county and municipality subject to the comprehensive planning program to adopt <br />development regulations and programs no later than 5 years after the date of the <br />department's written notice. <br /> <br />http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/sessI999/hbills99/hbI185.htm <br /> <br />1/16/99 <br />