We are past the half-way point of the 2011 Colorado legislative session, which began in early January and ends in early May. Several hundred bills have been proposed, and many have already been “postponed indefinitely” or voted down in committee or in a legislative chamber. Below are summaries of certain significant bills affecting Colorado real
Connected Urban Development – Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute
Last week I attended the 20th annual Rocky Mountain Land Land Use Institute conference at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Nicola Villa with Cisco was the Keynote Speaker on Friday morning. Mr. Villa works with the Connected Urban Development (“CUD”) program across the world in cities like Amsterdam, San Francisco
Colorado Initiative Reform
Action is now pending in the Colorado General Assembly to reform the State’s constitutional initiative process, which is the mechanism available to the electorate for amending the Colorado Constitution.
Under the existing constitutional structure, an initiative proposal for a constitutional amendment will be placed on the ballot for the State’s general election if the proponents
Section Line Roads: Is There Statutory Authority for Them?
In order to facilitate the settlement of the western United States in the nineteenth century, the federal government broke the land up into “townships” that were generally 36-square mile blocks. Each township was then broken into “sections” of roughly one square mile, or 640 acres. Each section was further divided into “quarter sections,” and further