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Councilmember reports CML positions on housing and other bills; council asks for more detail on a proposed vacant-property tax
Summary
Councilmember Anna Stout briefed the workshop on positions taken by the Colorado Municipal League on several bills: opposition to a state 'HOME Act' preempting local land-use review, support for transit-housing financing (with a $50M refundable tax credit), opposition to a drone preemption bill and to limits on law‑enforcement access to third‑party data, and a permissive local vacant-property tax that would require voter approval.
Councilmember Anna Stout, reporting from a Colorado Municipal League (CML) executive-board meeting, summarized a range of bills and CML positions during the Jan. 26 workshop.
Stout said CML opposes a broadly preemptive housing bill described in the transcript as HB 2601 (referred to by the presenter as the 'HOME Act') because it would allow certain public or nonprofit landowners to develop housing via an administrative approval process and avoid local…
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