§ 34-1-304 — Master plan for extraction

(1) The county planning commission
for unincorporated areas and for cities and towns having no planning commission or
the planning commission for each city and county, city, or town, within each
populous county of the state, shall, with the aid of the maps from the study
conducted pursuant to section 34-1-303, conduct a study of the commercial
mineral deposits located within its jurisdiction and develop a master plan for the
extraction of such deposits, which plan shall consist of text and maps. In
developing the master plan, the planning commission shall consider, among others,
the following factors:

(a) Any system adopted by the Colorado geological survey grading
commercial mineral deposits according to such factors as magnitude of the deposit
and time of availability for and feasibility of extraction of a deposit;

(b) The potential for effective multiple sequential use which would result in
the optimum benefit to the landowner, neighboring residents, and the community as
a whole;

(c) The development or preservation of land to enhance development of
physically attractive surroundings compatible with the surrounding area;

(d) The quality of life of the residents in and around areas which contain
commercial mineral deposits;

(e) Other master plans of the county, city and county, city, or town;

(f) Maximization of extraction of commercial mineral deposits;

(g) The ability to reclaim an area pursuant to the provisions of article 32 of
this title; and

(h) The ability to reclaim an area owned by any county, city and county, city,
town, or other governmental authority or proposed, pursuant to an adopted plan, to
be used for public purposes by such a governmental authority consistent with such
proposed use.

(2) A planning commission shall cooperate with the planning commissions of
contiguous areas and the mined land reclamation board created by section 34-32-105 in conducting the study and developing the master plan for extraction.

(3) (a) A county planning commission shall certify its master plan for
extraction to the board of county commissioners or the governing body of the city
or town where the county planning commission is acting in lieu of a city or town
planning commission. A planning commission in any city and county, city, or town
shall certify its master plan for extraction to the governing body of such city and
county, city, or town.

(b) After receiving the certification of such master plan and before adoption
of such plan, the board of county commissioners or governing body of a city and
county, city, or town shall hold a public hearing thereon, and at least thirty days'
notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be given by one publication in a
newspaper of general circulation in the county, city and county, city, or town. Such
notice shall state the place at which the text and maps so certified may be
examined.

(4) The board of county commissioners or governing body of a city and
county, city, or town may, after such public hearing, adopt the plan, revise the plan
with the advice of the planning commission and adopt it, or return the plan to the
planning commission for further study and rehearing before adoption, but, in any
case, a master plan for extraction of commercial mineral deposits shall be adopted
for the unincorporated territory and any city and county, city, or town in each
populous county of the state on or before July 1, 1975.

Legislative History

Source: L. 73: p. 1047, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 92-36-4. L. 75: (1)(h) added, p. 1336, � 1, effective June 29. L. 77: (2) amended, p. 289, � 67, effective June 29.