HomeMy WebLinkAbout10.03.79 Letter from Ray BaldwinROBERT DELANEY
KENNETH BALCOMB
JOHN A.THULSON
EDWARD MULHALL,JR.
ROBERT C. CUTTER
SCOTT M, BALCOMB
DAVID R. STURGES
LAWRENCE R. GREEN
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October 3, 1979 818 COLORADO AVENUE
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Mr. Ray Baldwin
Garfield County Planner
2014 Blake Avenue
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601
Dear Ray:
AREA CODE 303
Enclosed please find a Resolution of the Board of
Directors of the Basalt Water Conservancy District duly
enacted at its meeting of September 25, 1979. In general,
the Resolution speaks for itself. On behalf of the Board,
we hope you will agree that the Resolution to provide water
service, in the form contemplated, will protect the integrity
of the county planning process and allow the flexibility for
each county within the District to implement its planning
prerogatives as it may see fit.
It is our hope that each of you will provide the
Board with your concept of how the provision of water service
can best be incorporated into your county's planning functions.
At present, we have several petitions from persons situate
within portions of Garfield, Eagle and Pitkin Counties. We
are notifying each of these petitioners for water service
that if they contemplate new development, using the water
supplies requested, any decision on the part of the Board
must await a decision from the county planning commission
concerning how the provision of such water service can best
be implemented and incorporated in each county's planning
procedures.
We believe that substantial benefits can flow to
the public, both now and especially in the future, from
implementing a program of providing a legal supply of water
considered by the Board and adopted in the enclosed Resolution.
At present, in several areas, development is occurring at a
rapid pace without the provision of coherent region -wide
water service management as herein contemplated. It is our
hope that in providing the services herein contemplated we
can both preserve the integrity of the county land use
planning process and stem the tide of the growing proliferation
of small service districts and individual water supply
solutions, the multiplicity of which will undoubtedly become
an administrative nightmare.
Mr. Ray Baldwin
October 3, 1979
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if you have any questions or would like to meet
with the Board, please contact the undersigned so that you
may be placed on the agenda for its meeting on November 13,
1979.
Very truly yours,
DELANEY AND BALCOMB
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Scott Balcomb
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Board of Directors, Basalt Water Conservancy District