Colorado legislators advanced a marquee land-use reform bill Tuesday night, but not before making changes to it that carve out resort communities from some parts of the proposal, scale back zoning reforms in the state’s larger cities and enact a 10-year sunset on the entire policy as supporters sought to shepherd the bill through a contentious first hearing.
Still, despite the committee’s green light Tuesday night, the bill did not come out of its first vote unscathed. Prime sponsor Sen. Dominick Moreno, a Commerce City Democrat, came into the meeting with a slew of amendments in a bid to shepherd the bill through the process. All of those changes were adopted.
Another amendment carved out resort communities from the bill’s requirement that cities allow owners of single-family lots to build accessory dwelling units. Instead, resort communities would have to pick five of 16 housing strategies to enact. Resorts could, then, choose to build more ADUs or middle housing — provisions that larger, urban cities would be required to do under the bill. But resort communities could also choose to forgo them in favor of other options on the list.
“We regularly run legislation that applies to different regions of the state,” Moreno replied, and he pointed out that another key part of the bill — which requires regular housing studies be conducted to gauge state and local need — would still apply to resort areas.
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