Colorado Voting on Limiting Housing Growth Statutory Initiative (2018)
| Colorado Voting on Limiting Housing Growth Statutory | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Housing | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Voting on Limiting Housing Growth Statutory Initiative (#66) was not on the ballot in Colorado as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.
As of June 6, 2018, Daniel Hayes, the initiative sponsor, withdrew the initiative, noting he would not have enough time to gather the required signatures before the deadline.[1]
The initiative was designed to allow local voters to determine housing limits through initiatives and referendums.[2]
The initiative would have also limited annual private housing growth to one percent in the counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, and Weld for 2019 and 2020. Limits in these counties would have continued in 2021 and thereafter unless local voters overturned them through a ballot measure.[2]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for this initiative is as follows:[3]
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Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning limitations on the growth of housing, and, in connection therewith, permitting the electors of every city, town, city and county, or county to limit housing growth by initiative and referendum; permitting county voters by initiative and referendum to limit housing growth uniformly within the county, including all or parts of local governments within the county; establishing procedural requirements for initiatives for local governments, whether statutory or home rule, concerning limits on housing growth; and for the city and counties of Broomfield and Denver, and in the counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, and Weld: 1) prohibiting the issuance of new permits for privately owned housing units by local governments located in whole or in part within such counties and such cities and counties until January 1, 2019, 2) limiting the growth of privately owned residential housing units to one percent annually starting in 2019, and 3) permitting the one percent growth limitation to be amended or repealed by initiative and referendum commencing in 2021?[4] |
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Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Campaign finance
| Total campaign contributions: | |
| Support: | $0.00 |
| Opposition: | $172,000.00 |
As of May 9, 2018, there were no ballot measure committees registered in support of the measure. One committee, Coloradans for Responsible Reform, registered to oppose initiative #66. The committee had reported $172,000.00 in contributions.[5]
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 2018 ballot:
- Signatures: 98,492 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was August 6, 2018.
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
- Daniel Hayes and Julianne Page filed this initiative with the office of the secretary of state on November 15, 2017.[6]
- The ballot title setting board approved the initiative regarding the state's single-subject rule and issued a ballot title for it on December 6, 2017.[6]
- Hayes and Page originally proposed this initiative as an initiated constitutional amendment through Initiative #4 targeting the 2017 ballot instead of an initiated state statute.
- On December 15, 2016, Daniel Hayes reported that the campaign would seek to place the initiative on the ballot in 2018, rather than 2017, and as an initiated state statute, rather than an initiated constitutional amendment. He cited Amendment 71, an initiative approved in 2016 to create a distribution requirement for signatures and increase the vote requirement to 55 percent for amendments, as an impediment to a successful initiated amendment campaign in 2017.[7]
- Initiative #4, the constitutional amendment version of this initiative, expired on November 30, 2017.
- The supreme court confirmed the ballot title for this initiative on February 23, 2018.[6]
- On March 22, 2018, the petition format for this initiative was approved, thereby clearing the initiative for signature gathering.[6]
- Since less than six months remained until the general signature submission deadline of August 6, 2018, the initiative-specific deadline six months from the petition format approval was not applicable.[6]
- As of June 6, 2018, Daniel Hayes, the initiative sponsor, withdrew the initiative, noting he would not have enough time to gather the required signatures before the deadline.[8]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Denverite, "Over before it started? Colorado anti-growth campaigner says he’s giving up on Initiative 66." accessed June 7, 2018
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Colorado secretary of state, "Initiative #66 Text," accessed January 18, 2018
- ↑ Colorado secretary of state, "#66 Ballot Title," accessed February 28, 2018
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Colorado Secretary of State, "Tracer Committee Search," accessed May 9, 2018
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Colorado Secretary of State, "2017-2018 Initiative Filings, Agendas & Results," accessed January 18, 2018
- ↑ The Colorado Statesman, "Amendment 71 claims first known victim; bar raised too high for growth limits measure," December 15, 2016
- ↑ Denverite, "Over before it started? Colorado anti-growth campaigner says he’s giving up on Initiative 66." accessed June 7, 2018
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