Tag: colorado municipal league
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EDITORIAL: Let locals decide whether to split their lots
It’s a safe bet “lot splitting” — letting homeowners subdivide to build an additional dwelling with its own address and utilities — wouldn’t be acceptable to most neighbors in most neighborhoods in our state. It also would flout long-standing local zoning rules in most of the state’s residential areas. And its purported premise — making…
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Colorado Springs, other front Range cities oppose proposal to permit lot‑splitting
Colorado lawmakers are pressing ahead with a plan to let homeowners split their lots to make room for smaller, less expensive houses — a proposal that has drawn sharp opposition from Colorado Springs, Aurora, Denver and other Front Range cities that argue it undermines local control over land use. The legislation would change local land‑use…
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Downtown-area volunteer homeowners’ associations to be hit with new lot-splitting law
Volunteer homeowners’ associations in Colorado Springs, particularly those close to the downtown area, are preparing for another attack on single-family zoning from Gov. Jared Polis and the legislature during the just underway 2026 legislative session. The new proposal is called “lot splitting.” It would allow a single-family homeowner to split their lot into two separate…
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Colorado Supreme Court shoots down condo association’s lawsuit against Aspen for construction defects
The Colorado Supreme Court clarified on Monday that litigants may not use a judicial doctrine focused on breaches of contract to sue municipalities for negligently constructed housing, effectively sidestepping the broad immunity state law provides to government entities. The Colorado Governmental Immunity Act, with limited exceptions, shields public entities from lawsuits over injuries they cause.…
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News Analysis: Is Colorado’s local government sector functional or dysfunctional?
While much of the attention is focused on politics and governance at the State Capitol, the bulk of decisions that directly affect people’s daily lives often come out of the local city council, school board and county commission. Indeed, the saying all politics is local aptly describes the role that local governments play in shaping…
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Colorado lawmakers begin to tackle major housing bills, including occupancy limitations
Major measures on housing are starting to move at the state Capitol this week, which saw the first hearings on some of the roughly 260 bills introduced in this session so far. Colorado faces an acute housing shortage. One study puts the deficit in metro Denver region alone at 45,025 to 115,012 housing units. As…