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Assistant city attorney outlines 2025 state land-use bills; committee discusses legal response
Summary
Aurora assistant city attorney summarized several 2025 state bills affecting local land use, including new timelines for wireless facility approvals and limits on local reductions in residential density; committee members asked for follow-up and discussed possible litigation.
Lena McClelland, assistant city attorney who advises Aurora’s planning team, briefed the Planning and Economic Development Policy Committee on June 11 about key land-use legislation from the recent state session.
McClelland summarized several bills she said the committee should note, including House Bill 25‑10‑56 on local government permitting for wireless telecommunications facilities; HB 25‑10‑93, which limits locally enacted laws that reduce permitted residential density in census-designated urban areas; HB 25‑11‑13 expanding limits on nonfunctional turf in new residential development; HB 25‑12‑72 creating a multifamily construction incentive program and fast-track approval for for‑sale multifamily condominiums; and HB 25‑12‑73, which requires some larger municipalities to allow a single…
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