Tag: home rule
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GUEST COLUMN: Putting Colorado’s venues in legal limbo
Colorado is not one place. It is mountain towns and plains cities, resort communities and agricultural hubs, neighborhoods that have been here for generations and new developments finding their footing. What unites them is not a single set of rules handed down from Denver, but a shared conviction that the people closest to a community…
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GUEST COLUMN: State Supreme Court hinders cities’ crime fight
In the days before Christmas, the Colorado Supreme Court decided to dump a heap of coal into the stockings of home-rule cities across our state. In a unanimous decision, the Court ruled that municipalities may not impose “harsher sentences than state law allows for an identical offense.” In one fell swoop, local governments lost meaningful authority…
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Here are three of the six Colorado cities supporting strong home rule powers | Bob Loevy
Let’s take a closer look at the six Colorado cities that are suing Governor Polis and the state legislature for enacting two new laws that limit the home rule powers of cities on the Front Range of Colorado. These two new laws deny cities the power to require off-street parking for new apartment buildings. They…
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Monument to begin accepting nominations for Home Rule Charter Commission
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The town of Monument will begin accepting nominations next week for members of a Home Rule Charter Commission tasked with drafting a new town charter if residents this November approve a measure to create the commission and move to municipal home rule. Voters would select…
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Monument to begin accepting nominations for Home Rule Charter Commission
The town of Monument will begin accepting nominations next week for members of a Home Rule Charter Commission tasked with drafting a new town charter if residents this November approve a measure to create the commission and move to municipal home rule. Voters would select the commission members in the same election. The nine-person commission…
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Monument voters to decide on move to home rule government, sales tax increase for police services
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Town of Monument will ask voters this fall to decide if the town should move to municipal home rule, in a bid officials contend will give residents more say in how local government is run. The Monument Board of Trustees voted 6-1 Monday night…
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Monument voters to decide on move to home rule government, sales tax increase for police services
The Town of Monument will ask voters this fall to decide if the town should move to municipal home rule, in a bid officials contend will give residents more say in how local government is run. The Monument Board of Trustees voted 6-1 Monday night to put a measure on the November ballot that would…