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Senate Local Government & Housing
A Senate housing panel took hours of testimony on a bill to cap single-family minimum lot sizes statewide — then watched its own sponsor kill it — before advancing a rewrite of Colorado's voter-approved Proposition 123 affordable-housing formula over one 'respectful' objection.
Key Actions
·Allowed Minimum Lot Size for Subject JurisdictionsKilled
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Notable Quotes
“we'll hear witness testimony in this bill, and then I will be postponing it indefinitely.”
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Votes
Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction
Yes (7)Mark Baisley, Matt Ball, William Lindstedt, Larry Liston, Janice Rich, Marc Snyder, Tony Exum
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (6)Matt Ball, William Lindstedt, Larry Liston, Janice Rich, Marc Snyder, Tony Exum
No (1)Mark Baisley
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Welcome, everybody, to the Senate Local Government and Housing Committee. And sorry for the little bit of a delay getting started, but we're ready to go. So would you call the roll, please? Senators Basley. Present. Ball. Here. Linstedt. Present. Liston. Here. Rich. Here. Exum. Excused. Mr. Chair. Here. Okay, well, we'll get right to it. Our first bill up to be heard today is House Bill 1114. And I see our sponsor, Senator Ball, is getting set up at the table. So whenever you're ready, we'd love to hear all about Senate House Bill 1114. Senator Ball. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, members of the committee. House Bill 1114 is a pretty straightforward bill. It would require that lot sizes for single family homes be no greater than 2,000 square feet. Research shows that smaller lots can lower costs and boost housing diversity. And large lot sizes, on the other hand, can drive housing costs and provides less and provide less housing options for Colorado. We have in Colorado some of the highest minimum lot size requirements in the country. We also have the fifth highest home prices and the sixth highest rent costs. In Denver alone,…
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