Governor’s housing bill dies over insurmountable gulf on local control
An ambitious bill to reform Colorado land-use codes to spur construction of more housing along key corridors and throughout cities died on the final day…
Housing
Senate passes long-delayed right-of-first-refusal bill
A bill that would make Colorado the first state in the nation to give local governments a first right of refusal on many apartment complexes…
Changes restore most original provisions to land-use reform bill
Less than one week after a Senate committee gutted a bill to create statewide standards that would allow more development of urban housing, a House…
A long-stalled bill no longer impacts the issue of construction-defects reform
A Senate committee on Monday stripped a key provision from a significantly debated bill that homebuilders and business groups warned could have launched a new…
Committee eviscerates land-use reform bill
Gov. Jared Polis’ grand plan to boost Colorado’s housing stock by removing local construction obstacles got a major makeover Wednesday that essentially bumped the once…
Senate committee kills controversial housing bill
A Colorado Senate committee on Tuesday night killed what arguably was the most controversial bill among this year’s sprawling array of housing measures — a…
Affordable-housing package advances, but with a major concession
Gov. Jared Polis’ package of bills seeking to ease Colorado’s affordable-housing crisis by ramping up new construction has passed its first key tests — albeit…
Polis signs housing bill
Gov. Jared Polis made it official Tuesday that metropolitan districts, controversy or not, will continue to be a part of Colorado’s solution to building more…
Two bills are reviving the construction-defects fight at the Colorado Capitol
Colorado homebuilders and advocates for increased condominium construction are fighting a two-part battle at the Legislature over the resurrected issue of construction-defects reform — putting…
Colorado legislators choose path forward for metro districts
Given the choice between significant or lighter limits on metropolitan districts where most of the state’s new homes are being constructed, Colorado legislators have made…