State Legislature Bills

This bill creates a Community Stadium District to tie any publicly backed pro football venue to local economic benefits, including small-business contracting quotas, prevailing wage, local hiring, apprenticeship use, and protections against displacement. It also sets up a fund financed by ticket surcharges, sponsorship revenue, and capped tax-increment revenue to support in-district small businesses while barring public money from covering the team ownership’s private costs.

This bill would speed up approvals for mixed-income infill and transit-oriented housing in already-developed areas, while coordinating utilities and state agencies on grid upgrades for new multifamily housing. It also gives local governments technical help to modernize permitting and reduce delays, aiming to ease housing costs near jobs, schools, and transit.

This bill would require larger Colorado municipalities to allow more housing types like duplexes, triplexes, ADUs, and mixed-use multifamily housing by right in transit-accessible and infill areas, while speeding up permitting for qualifying projects. It also offers planning grants and technical help to local governments, keeps more local control outside covered areas, and requires yearly reporting on housing supply, permit delays, and affordability.