growth control
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Ban on local housing growth caps passes Colorado legislature
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In the most recent effort to tackle Colorado’s affordable housing issue, Democrats in the state legislature voted to ban local housing growth caps on Thursday. If enacted, House Bill 1255 would prohibit local laws that limit annual housing construction or residential permits, and erase those that currently exist in several cities in Colorado, such as Boulder, Golden…
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THE PODIUM | We can’t slam the door on new housing if we want it to be affordable
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Coloradans dodged a bullet earlier this year when the proponent of a crippling anti-growth initiative walked away from the measure for lack of public support. The statewide ballot proposal would have had wide-ranging and devastating consequences – not only for the housing sector, which effectively would have been shut down, but also for our entire…
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Q&A with Kelly Brough | Denver chamber’s chief weighs in on Olympics, #MeToo and more
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Among the heavier hitters in the Denver metro business community – and in Colorado politics – is Kelly Brough. As president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, she wields the kind of clout in the political forum that you’d expect of someone who serves as a voice for some 3,000 Denver-area businesses…
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SLOAN | A showdown over growth in Erie
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A municipal election in Erie would not generate much interest outside the town limits, were it not for the fact that everything that happens politically in Erie in the last couple of years seems to stir excitement. The reason, of course, it that the little municipality finds itself, by geographic accident, on the front lines…
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A ballot issue that mandates stagnation and recession? No thanks
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Colorado is a welcoming, pro-business state. We have one of the best performing economies in the country, even when times are tough. When the Great Recession hit almost 10 years ago, for example, we bounced back faster and stronger than the rest of the nation. That’s no accident. For decades, Colorado’s political and business leaders…
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Arguments begin in marathon court hearing over Lakewood growth
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The opening salvo in the court fray over a Lakewood ballot initiative aimed at curtailing city growth turned into a six-hour marathon hearing late last week. The Lakewood Sentinel’s Clarke Reader detailed the second day of administrative hearings which dragged on over half a dozen hours on Thursday and took testimony from 44 “petitioners, circulators…
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Lakewood’s anti-growth ballot measure is just more big government
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Conservatives believe that the most influential government should be local governments – not bureaucrats thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C. If you’re going to make decisions that affect our lives, you better look us in the eye. That’s why we take local government so seriously. Because when people are working hard to make their…
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Q&A w/Scott Smith: Home builders’ point man talks about housing costs, growth control and more
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Legislative efforts to reform the state’s laws on construction liability – “construction defects” was the buzz phrase – became one of the dominant themes of the 2017 session at the State Capitol. The seemingly obscure issue also became the focus of intense media coverage. After all, the end game mattered a lot to ordinary Coloradans:…
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The latest take on an old standoff between pro-growthers and growth controllers
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ColoradoPolitics.com has reported before on a couple of ballot proposals to curb growth in Lakewood, the old, inner-ring Denver burb that has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years. The pending Lakewood Strategic Growth Initiative would among other things place a 1 percent annual growth limit on new residential construction. Meanwhile, a proposal by a Lakewood…
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High-density housing freeze brings big gun AFP to suburban Lakewood
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Americans for Prosperity-Colorado – part of the pro-free market, Koch brothers-funded national political behemoth – typically has bigger fish to fry. Like challenging renewable-energy mandates or advancing school choice. The state AFP chapter’s latest initiative, however, involves a matter of hyper-local importance in west metro Denver’s Lakewood. At a study session scheduled for tonight, the City Council will have…
