About us...

History of the Land Use Coalition

This grassroots organization grew from an overwhelming deluge of letters, phone calls and faxes to us, and to the Boulder County Commissioners protesting their imminent adoption of certain "slopes regulations" which would restrict a landowner's ability to build on slopes of over 20% grade.

The slopes issue brought us together but with all the letters and phone calls, many other issues emerged: the county's merging of contiguous properties, problems gaining access to properties, and the Site Plan Review process itself.

We are committed to promoting education, awareness and support for landowners in Boulder County and beyond, while supporting open space, wildlife and preservation.

Officers and Executive Committee

Goals

The Land Use Coalition is dedicated to informing, supporting and protecting citizens, and their property rights in Boulder County, while at the same time supporting open space, wildlife and reasonable land use regulations.

In addition to continuing to monitor the Commissioners, and making sure they have access to competent expert information, we take action in several other ways: Notifying landowners of county changes in policy or regulations in time for us to do something about it, monitoring and lobbying state legislation which might impact our ability to build on our land, identifying potential court cases to serve as test cases or group cases challenging the County's right to unreasonably interfere with our ability to build, develop a database of land use decisions in site plan review and other land use decisions, and form a support group for those of us going through the process, with tips and suggestions for the applicant obtaining a building permit. Our long term goal is to make Boulder County government more accountable for its decisions, and more responsive to its citizens.

Contact Us

The Land Use Coalition
P.O. BOX 20265
Boulder, CO 80308
303-666-7903
web: http://landusecoalition.org
email: contactus@landusecoalition.org

We invite your input. If you have a personal experience dealing with Boulder County on land use issues that you'd like to share, please see our Personal Stories page. You may use the form at the end of this page to send us your personal story.

We also have mailing lists to which you may subscribe. Please visit the Main Page to learn more about our Email Mailing Lists.

In addition, we have a more extensive questionnaire regarding land and land use issues in Boulder County and beyond. You may contribute as little or as much information as you wish. Please visit our Contact Us page for more information.

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