The permit authority shall approve an application for a permit to engage in development of natural hazard area or mineral resource area only if all of the following criteria are met:

   A. Natural Hazard Area and Mineral Resource Area.

   1. All of the provisions of the permit application procedure have been complied with.

   2. The development will not violate any of the applicable prohibitions, restrictions, or purposes set out in Article 1 of this chapter.

   3. The development will not otherwise violate the purposes and intent of these regulations.

   4. Any development in which residential activity is to take place will be designed so as to minimize significant hazards to public health and safety or to property.

   5. Provision is made for disclosure, prior to sales, of all natural hazard and mineral resource areas and mitigation procedures undertaken and for attaching a delineation and description of the natural hazard area and mineral resource area and mitigation measures to all deeds, titles, and recorded documents involving a transfer of ownership of the subject land.

   6. Structures designed for human occupancy and sites designed for human use shall be constructed so as to prevent danger to human life or property.

   B. Geologic Hazard Areas.

   1. Provision shall be made for the long-term health, welfare and safety of the public from geologic hazards to life, property, and associated investments.

   2. Permitted land uses, including public facilities, which serve such uses shall avoid or mitigate geologic hazards at the time of initial construction.

   3. Man-made changes shall not initiate or intensify adverse natural conditions within a geologic hazard area.

   4. Recommendations concerning the proposed development in the designated geologic hazard area by the Colorado Geological Survey shall be solicited and considered. The Colorado Geological Survey shall be allowed no less than twenty-four (24) days in which to respond to such referrals;

   C. Wildfire Hazard Areas.

   1. Any authorized development will have adequate roads for service by fire trucks, fire-fighting personnel, and other safety equipment, as well as fire breaks and other means of reducing conditions conducive to fire.

   2. All precautions required to reduce or eliminate wildfire hazards will be provided for at the time of initial development.

   3. The development will adhere to the guidelines and criteria for Wildfire Hazard Areas promulgated by Colorado State Forest Service.

   D. Mineral Resource Areas.

   1. Importance of diverting future developments to areas which will not interfere with extraction of minerals.

   2. The need to permit extraction or exploration of minerals unless extraction or exploration would cause significant danger to the public health and safety.

   3. A comparison between the economic value of the minerals present as against the economic value of the proposed development.

   4. Procedures proposed for assuring that exploration and extraction of a mineral shall be carried out in a manner which will cause the least practical environmental disturbance.