2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 32 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS (§§ 32-1-101 — 32-22-117) › REGIONAL SERVICE AUTHORITIES (§§ 32-7-101 — 32-7-146) › Article 7 - REGIONAL SERVICE AUTHORITIES (§§ 32-7-101 — 32-7-146) › Section 32-7-114 - Duties related to planning powers

(1)
To provide for comprehensive planning to promote the orderly and efficient development of the physical, social, and economic elements of the service authority and to encourage and assist local governments within the boundaries of the service authority to plan for the future, the board shall prepare and adopt, after such public hearings as it deems necessary, a comprehensive development guide for the service authority area, consisting of a compilation of policy statements, goals, standards, programs, maps, and those future developments that will have an impact on the entire area, including but not limited to such matters as land use, parks and open space land needs, transportation facilities, public hospitals and health facilities, libraries, schools, other public buildings, domestic water collection, treatment, and distribution, housing, and the delivery and distribution of social services to residents of the service authority.
(2)
The board shall review all comprehensive plans of each commission, board, or agency of the state of Colorado, or any local government within the service authority area, if such plan is determined by the board to affect the development of the service authority. Each such plan shall be submitted to the board for such determination before any action is taken, and, if the board finds that a plan or any part thereof is inconsistent with its comprehensive development guide for the service authority area, is detrimental to the orderly and economic development of the authority's area, or will cause inefficient or uneconomic delivery of services to inhabitants of the area, it shall, within sixty days after the filing of the plan with the service authority, notify the respective state agency or local government of noncompliance with the regional plan. If no agreement can be obtained between the board and a state agency or local government within ninety days after such notice of noncompliance, the board shall indicate the noncompliance of any such plan on the service authority's comprehensive development guide, and said plan shall take effect.
(3)
The board shall review all applications of any local government in the service authority area for a loan or grant from a state or federal agency if review by a regional or areawide agency is required by federal law, by the federal agency, or by state law. Each commission, board, or agency, before submitting such application to the United States, or any agency thereof, or to the state, or any agency thereof, shall first transmit the application to the board of the service authority for its comments and recommendations with respect to whether or not the project proposed is consistent with the comprehensive development guide for the service authority area. The comments and recommendations made by the board of the service authority shall then become a part of the application, and if submitted to a state or federal agency such comments and recommendations shall also be submitted. If the board of the service authority fails to report its comments and recommendations within sixty days, the local government may forward its grant application to the appropriate agency of the state or the United States government. If, however, the local government shall forward its application to the appropriate agency of the state or the United States government after said sixty days have lapsed without obtaining the review by the service authority of its application, it shall state upon said application that it was not reviewed by the service authority acting in its capacity as the regional or areawide agency.
L. 72: p. 465, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-25-14. L. 2005: (1) amended, p. 670, § 8, effective June 1.