Tag: Home Rule
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Douglas County seeks state Supreme Court review in open meeting case
The Douglas County Board of Commissioners intends to petition the Colorado Supreme Court to review a recent court decision that found the board had violated the Colorado Open Meeting Law. The case stems from 11 “closed, unnoticed” meetings held by the county commissioners between December 2024 and April 2025, as well as three executive sessions…
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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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Douglas County’s ‘home rule’ town hall draws thousands online, 7 residents speak
Douglas County hosted town hall to provide context, receive input on its efforts to become Colorado’s third sole ‘home rule’ county.
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As ‘transit-oriented’ law takes hold in Colorado, some see erosion of home rule | ANALYSIS
A new law that mandates more than 30 Front Range municipalities incorporate state housing density goals along transit routes will lead to messy conflicts over contractual obligations and yet another erosion of Colorado’s long history of local control over zoning and building regulation, according to critics. Supporters, on the other hand, argue that the high cost…
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Polis throws cold water on public unions bill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A bill to allow public employees to engage in collective bargaining has run into its biggest hurdle: lack of support from Gov. Jared Polis. The bill is the brainchild of House Majority Leader Daneya Esgar, D-Pueblo, and Sen. Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder. Esgar worked on a…