Ballot Title Setting Board
2005-2006

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning a limitation on housing growth, and, in connection therewith, granting the electors of local governments the right to limit housing growth within their boundaries by initiative and referendum, allowing county voters to limit housing growth uniformly within a county, limiting privately owned residential housing in the counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, and Larimer for the years 2007 through 2010 to one percent annual growth, requiring at least thirty percent of the housing growth in such counties be affordable housing and affordable senior housing, implementing a moratorium until January 1, 2007, on the issuance of residential building permits in such counties following voter approval of the measure, and defining terms used in the measure.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning a limitation on housing growth, and, in connection therewith, granting the electors of local governments the right to limit housing growth within their boundaries by initiative and referendum, allowing county voters to limit housing growth uniformly within a county, limiting privately owned residential housing in the counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, and Larimer for the years 2007 through 2010 to one percent annual growth, requiring at least thirty percent of the housing growth in such counties be affordable housing and affordable senior housing, implementing a moratorium until January 1, 2007, on the issuance of residential building permits in such counties following voter approval of the measure, and defining terms used in the measure?

Hearing February 15, 2006

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 2:46 p.m.

Hearing March 1, 2006

Motion for Rehearing granted in part to the extent Board amended titles; denied in all other respects.
Hearing adjourned 3:17 p.m.

* Unofficially captioned “Limitations on Housing Growth” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. Such caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.