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Colorado Limits on Housing Growth Initiative (2020)
| Colorado Limits on Housing Growth Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Housing | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Colorado Limits on Housing Growth Initiative (#122) was not on the ballot in Colorado as an initiated state statute on November 3, 2020.
This initiative was designed to limit privately owned residential development to 1% growth annually for 2021 and 2022.[1][2][3][2]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Initiative #122 would have been as follows:[4]
| “ | Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning limitations on the growth of privately owned residential housing, and, in connection therewith, permitting the electors of every city, town, city and county, or county to limit privately owned residential housing growth by initiative and referendum; permitting county voters by initiative and referendum to limit privately owned residential housing growth uniformly within the county, including all or parts of local governments within the county; for the cities and counties of Broomfield and Denver and for the counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, and Weld: (1) limiting privately owned residential housing growth countywide to one percent annually for the years 2021 and 2022 and for subsequent years unless amended or repealed by initiative and referendum starting in 2023; and (2) requiring said counties and cities and counties to allot permits to build new privately owned residential housing units to ensure that the annual growth rate in the total number of such units does not exceed one percent in the years 2021 and 2022; permitting an additional fifteen hundredths of one percent additional growth each for affordable and senior privately owned residential housing growth in said counties and cities and counties when such housing is either affordable housing or senior housing; and establishing procedural requirements for initiatives and referenda concerning proposals for local governments to regulate the growth of privately owned residential housing?[5] | ” |
Full text
- The full text of Initiative #122 is available here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Colorado, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated state statute for the ballot is equal to 5 percent of the total number of votes cast for the office of Colorado secretary of state in the preceding general election. State law provides that petitioners have six months to collect signatures after the ballot language and title are finalized. State statutes require a completed signature petition to be filed three months and three weeks before the election at which the measure would appear on the ballot. The Constitution, however, states that the petition must be filed three months before the election at which the measure would appear. The secretary of state generally lists a date that is three months before the election as the filing deadline.
The requirements to get an initiated state statute certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 124,632 valid signatures
- Deadline: August 3, 2020[6]
The secretary of state is responsible for signature verification. Verification is conducted through a review of petitions regarding correct form and then a 5 percent random sampling verification. If the sampling projects between 90 percent and 110 percent of required valid signatures, a full check of all signatures is required. If the sampling projects more than 110 percent of the required signatures, the initiative is certified. If less than 90 percent, the initiative fails.
Details about this initiative
- Julianne Page and Daniel Hayes filed Initiative #109 on July 3, 2019. The version was withdrawn.[2]
- Charlotte Robinson and Daniel Hayes filed Initiative #122 on August 13, 2019. Initiative #122 was approved for signature gathering on January 16, 2020, with signatures due on June 5, 2020.[2]
- The initiative was withdrawn prior to the signature deadline.[2]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Colorado Secretary of State, "Initiative #109 Complete Text," accessed July 5, 2019
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Colorado Secretary of State, "2019-2020 Initiative Filings, Agendas & Results," accessed July 5, 2019 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "SoS" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Colorado Secretary of State, "Initiative #122 Complete Text," accessed July 5, 2019
- ↑ Colorado Secretary of State, ,"Ballot title for Initiative #122," accessed April 17, 2020
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ On May 17, 2020, Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) signed Executive Order D 2020 065, which temporarily suspended the state law requiring signatures to be submitted six months after ballot language finalization. Under the order, signatures for 2020 Colorado initiatives were due by August 3, 2020.
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