FORT COLLINS Come mid-September, Larimer County will impose new rules affecting oil and gas operations in the county.
The rules are among a handful of new local regulations that counties across the state are permitted to write after passage of Senate Bill 181 in 2019.
The Larimer County Board of Commissioners voted 3-0 to approve the new rules after extensive hearings and discussion.
In the end, the commissioners appeared to be most concerned with oil and gas setbacks from housing, schools, nursing homes and other potentially vulnerable residents. Those setbacks would include so-called “reverse setbacks,” in that housing developers would be unable to build within established limits around existing wells.