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<br />El Paso and Teller Counties into a sustainable community and a sustainability leader by 2030. <br />(Complete) <br />Agricultural Fallowing Policy Dialogue <br />This dialogue was initiated to facilitate agricultural fallowing and water sharing agreements <br />between municipalities, farmers, and ranchers. A group of water experts and agricultural and <br />municipal water users explored policy changes that can make such agreements less burdensome <br />on the agricultural community while increasing the certainty that municipalities will have water <br />to meet future demands. Heather facilitated the dialogue with a focus on improving the overall <br />policy landscape for water sharing. (Complete) <br />Basin Roundtable Project Exploration Committee: Flaming Gorge <br />The Basin Roundtable Project Exploration Committee was approved by the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board (CWCB) as a pilot project for determining if collaborative dialogue among <br />the nine basins and other water stakeholders is an effective venue for exploring potential new <br />supply gap. The Committee <br />worked in consultation with roundtables, the Interbasin Compact Committee (IBCC), CWCB, <br />and other stakeholders to identify the interests and issues potentially impacted by a Flaming <br />Gorge water supply project, explore the current state of knowledge about such a project and its <br />potential impacts, and to recommend next steps for addressing the identified interests and issues. <br />(Complete) <br />Affordable Housing Task Force <br />diverse group of community stakeholders working to develop recommendations to the City for <br />ways to meet the growing need for affo <br />deliberations touched not only on the provision of both rental and home ownership opportunities, <br />but also related issues like transportation, social service needs, environmental impacts, and <br />financial constraints. This 18-month process ended with a report to staff and City Council that <br />included recommendations for generating new financial resources, distributing the cost of <br />providing affordable housing equitably among the sectors that contribute to the need, and <br />establishing innovative programs and incentives to increase the provision of affordable housing <br />in the City. (Complete) <br />Long-Range Transportation Plan for the Pikes Peak Region <br />Heather facilitated a pilot project in the Pikes Peak region to develop a long-range transportation <br />plan through a collaborative, stakeholder process. Local, state, and federal stakeholders worked <br />with staff of the Metropolitan Planning Organization to develop a vision, mission, and goals for <br />the transportation plan, and also provided substantial feedback and guidance on the development <br />of the planning scenarios that provided the foundation for the planning process. This process <br />resulted in a new, comprehensive transportation plan that better reflects the vision and needs not <br />only of the residents of the region but also of planning partners and regulatory agencies at all <br />levels. (Complete) <br />2 <br />5 <br />