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51 Denv. L.J. 467 (1974)
1974 Land Use Legislation in Colorado

handle is hein.journals/denlr51 and id is 477 raw text is: DENVER LAW JOURNAL VOLUME 51 1974 NUMBER 4 1974 LAND USE LEGISLATION IN COLORADO By JoHN R. BERMINGHAM* INTRODUCTION The 1974 session of the Colorado General Assembly passed a wide variety of bills affecting the environment and the use of land.' Although some consideration will be given to House Bill 1034, The Local Government Land Use Control Enabling Act of 1974, this article will focus on House Bill 1041, the bill which received so much attention while the session was in progress.' *Assistant to the Governor for Environmental Affairs and State Planning; member of the Colorado Land Use Commission; B.E., 1944, Yale University; LL.B., 1949, Colum- bia Law School. The author assumes responsibility for all statements, but wishes to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of many persons-too numerous to name-who have reviewed drafts of this article. Positions taken in this article are those of the author individually and have no official status. I E.g., Colo. S.B. 7 (1974) (water rights-augmentation plans); Colo. S.B. 59 (1974) (Barr Lake acquisition); Colo. S.B. 60 (1974) (county powers-floods-removal of obstruc- tions); Colo. S.B. 86 (1974) (water pollution-hearing officers); Colo. S.B. 87 (1974) (plan- ning districts); Colo. S.B. 91 (1974) (water pollution control facilities-funding formula); Colo. S.B. 95 (1974) (definition of subdivision-condominiums); Colo. H.B. 1034 (1974) (Local Government Land Use Control Enabling Act); Colo. H.B. 1041 (1974) (the Land Use Bill); Colo. H.B. 1084 (1974) (Conservation Trust Fund); Colo. H.B. 1140 (1974) (air pollution-fees for permits); Colo. H.B. 1165 (1974) (geothermal resources); Colo. H.B. 1178 (1974) (abandonment of towns); Colo. H.B. 1179 (1974) (counties given control over new municipal incorporations); Colo. H.B. 1200 (1974) (State Mapping Pro- gram-500,000 appropriation-U.S. Geol. Survey and aerial); Colo. S.J. Res. 28 (1974) (authorizing a study of energy resources); Colo. H.J. Res. 1008 (1974) (authorizing a study of oil shale development); Colo. H.J. Res. 1041 (1974) (authorizing a study of new com- munities); Colo. H.J. Res. 1042 (1974) (authorizing a study of metropolitan Denver water problems). 2 The complete text of Colo. H.B. 1041 (1974) is presented as Appendix A to this article. NOTE To READER: At about the time this article appears in print, the 1973 version of the COLORADO REvisED STATUTES will become available. Many of the chapters, articles, and sections in this 1973 compilation will have been renumbered in the process of reorganizing the statutes by subject area. In order to make the statutory citations herein to pre-1974 legislation useful to readers using the 1973 version of the COLORADO REviSED STATUTES, the editors have departed from our usual footnote format in some respects and have attempted to provide additional information so that the reader may locate pre-1974 statutory cita- tions either in the 1963 COLORADO REvSD STATrTES and subsequent supplements, or in the 1973 COLORADo REvisED STATUTES. Where this format is employed the statutory cita-

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