The integration of water and land use planning is one crucial action to close the gap between future water supplies and demands. Communities across the West are taking that action, but how much do we know about the extent to which communities have integrated water and land use planning, and even more importantly, whether those actions have saved water? What tools would be most helpful to communities in measuring their success?
“Sonoran Institute and Brendle Group have evaluated meaningful metrics that communities and the State can use to measure progress of water-land use planning integration and the impacts of those efforts.” – Christy Wiseman, AICP | Land Use and Water Planner, Colorado Department of Local Affairs