Limiting Growth - Initiation Ties Construction to Prior Water use

Stop Growth In CO by Limiting New Residential Housing Along the Front Range

The initiative assumes that water is a finite resource. We've seen how well artificial restrictions on growth work; witness the high cost of housing inside the Boulder "green belt" and the sprawl, traffic and congestion outside the arbitrary no-growth zone.

A proposed Colorado ballot initiative in the works would limit the amount of water made available for "newly constructed, privately owned residential housing units" along the Front Range and would prohibit cities and counties from issuing building permits that would cause those caps to be exceeded.

The cap provides:
Beginning in 2011, the amount of water available annually for newly constructed, privately owned residential housing units for the cities and counties or counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer and Weld shall not exceed one percent of the total water used for privately owned residential purposes annually averaged over the previous ten years in such cities and counties or counties.

Each local government and any part of such, whether statutory or home rule, shall allot building permits so that housing growth does not exceed the limitation on water use cumulatively for such city or county in a calendar year.