The bill’s sponsor, Commerce City Democrat Sen. Dominick Moreno, circulated a 21-bulletpoint list of amendments before the hearing began that would tweak affordability, the bill’s impact on rural-resort towns and density requirements.
proposes to reshape the state’s locally set zoning rules in a bid to build more housing, encourage density and the use of public transit, and, ideally, reduce the cost of apartments and homes.
But the bill has received a much frostier reception from local governments. A battery of mayors and councilmembers from across the state — Crested Butte, Westminster, Avon, Colorado Springs, Moreno’s own Commerce City — testified against it Thursday, asking that it either be gutted or demolished entirely.
The changes being circulated wouldn’t address local governments’ broader charge of state overreach, officials said Thursday. Some questioned how, in an increasingly water-conscious West, the state proposed supporting a crop of new housing. The mayor of Breckenridge, Eric Mamula, told lawmakers that the bill would “ruin my town,” given that it would allow for more smaller units to be built, which in turn could feed into the short-term rental problem.
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