Ballot Title Setting Board
2019-2020

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

A change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning limitations on the growth of housing, and, in connection therewith, permitting the electors of every city, town, city and county, or county to limit housing growth by initiative and referendum; permitting county voters by initiative and referendum to limit housing growth uniformly within the county, including all or parts of local governments within the county; for the cities and counties of Broomfield and Denver and for the counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, and Weld: (1) limiting privately owned residential housing growth countywide to one percent annually for the years 2021 and 2022 and for subsequent years unless amended or repealed by initiative and referendum starting in 2023; and (2) prohibiting said counties and cities and counties from issuing permits to build new privately owned residential housing units beginning with the certification of election results for the 2020 November statewide ballot and continuing until January 1, 2021; and establishing procedural requirements for initiatives and referenda for enacting, repealing, or amending proposals for local governments to regulate the growth of privately owned residential housing.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning limitations on the growth of housing, and, in connection therewith, permitting the electors of every city, town, city and county, or county to limit housing growth by initiative and referendum; permitting county voters by initiative and referendum to limit housing growth uniformly within the county, including all or parts of local governments within the county; for the cities and counties of Broomfield and Denver and for the counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, and Weld: (1) limiting privately owned residential housing growth countywide to one percent annually for the years 2021 and 2022 and for subsequent years unless amended or repealed by initiative and referendum starting in 2023; and (2) prohibiting said counties and cities and counties from issuing permits to build new privately owned residential housing units beginning with the certification of election results for the 2020 November statewide ballot and continuing until January 1, 2021; and establishing procedural requirements for initiatives and referenda for enacting, repealing, or amending proposals for local governments to regulate the growth of privately owned residential housing?

Hearing July 3, 2019

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 2:02 PM.

Rehearing July 17, 2019

Motion for Rehearing granted only to the extent that the Board made changes to the fiscal impact abstract; denied in all other respects.
Hearing adjourned 11:53 AM.

* Unofficially captioned "Limits on Local Housing Growth" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.