Colorado election 2025: Littleton charter amendment would lock in historic zoning rules
Littleton voters in November will decide whether the city’s land-use code should be frozen as it was at the beginning of the year, essentially locking single-family zoning into place and preventing higher density neighborhoods.
Ballot Question 3A would amend the city charter by preserving single-family zoning as it existed on Jan. 1 and require voter approval for any city-initiated rezoning in residential districts.
The charter amendment was put on the ballot through a petition by a citizen-led group called Rooted in Littleton. Earlier this year, the group helped lead the effort to pressure the Littleton City Council to table an ordinance that allowed denser housing options, such as duplexes, in many parts of the city.
“The only way we could think to stop (land use changes), at least for a couple of years, was to get an amendment on the charter so they can’t change it,” Joe Whitney, part of Rooted in Littleton, said on the Kim Monson Show earlier this month.
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