BOULDER — Boulder County is encouraging residents to attend any of six upcoming briefings about the effort to update the county’s 33-year-old comprehensive plan.
That’s Boulder County’s guiding document for county government policies, regulations and decisions about such issues as land use, development and growth in the county’s unincorporated areas.
“It’s sort of the cornerstone of everything else we do in the county from a land use perspective,” said Dale Case, director of Boulder County’s Land Use Department. The Boulder County Comprehensive Plan’s goals help direct urban development into urban areas and maintain the agricultural, environmental resources and rural character of the unincorporated areas of the county, according to the county’s Land Use staff.
Sections of the comprehensive plan have been amended incrementally since its original adoption in 1978, but the overall plan hasn’t had a full review, major revision or update since that time, the county staff has said.
“We have grown by more than 100,000 people since then,” Case said, and many of the people living in Boulder County now weren’t here when the original plan was approved more than 30 years ago.
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