chaffee county
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Plan calls for more protection of scenic, recreation areas in large swath of Colorado
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The Bureau of Land Management has released a plan to manage a vast mosaic of canyonlands, grasslands and mountains in southern, central and eastern Colorado. In the works for close to a decade, the plan is officially called the Eastern Colorado Resource Management Plan. “Eastern” might be deceiving; the focus area spans beyond the plains…
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10th Circuit rebuffs claim that Chaffee County violated landowner’s property rights
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Because Chaffee County never definitively represented to a landowner that she would be able to maintain a kennel and foxhunting operation on her property, the county did not violate her rights when it found her in violation of its land-use code, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Tuesday. However, a three-judge panel…
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Colorado’s naming board rejects Union Reservoir change
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The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board on Thursday recommended the governor reject a proposal submitted by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names, backed by the Union Reservoir Company and City of Longmont, to change the name of Calkins Lake to Union Reservoir. Union Reservoir has been the name commonly attributed to Calkins Lake for at…
