Comprehensive Plan a done deal for Westminster

density in favor of commercial developments at the March 27 meeting.

VOLUME 78 | ISSUE 24

Battling property tax bills could be settled at ballot

Governor wants fix as competing nonprofits o er their solutions

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

e Colorado legislature’s inaction so far this year on a long-term x e ort to address rising property tax bills has prompted two scal policy nonpro ts — one conservative and the other liberal — to propose competing ballot measures that would dramatically reshape the state’s nancial picture.

e policy battle is a repeat of what happened at the Colorado Capitol last year, when the same groups, neither of which have to disclose their donors, initiated property tax ballot measures when the General Assembly was slow to act. ey backed down only when lawmakers passed a Band-Aid bill giving property owners two years of temporary tax relief.

BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

City Councilors took some heat – and some praise – for their vote on a comprehensive plan that seeks to decrease Westminster’s residential

“To the ve of you, your vote two weeks ago on the 2040 Comprehensive Plan was anti-family, anti-children and anti-seniors,” Amber Hott, a Westminster resident who plans on running for a council seat in the 2023 election, told councilors.

Hott said with the council making a decision to limit zoning in the city, it a ects the free market’s