Agenda Date: 09/02/2025
Subject:
Title
Ordinance 14-2025: An ordinance on second reading referring a ballot question, regarding a citizen-initiated proposed charter change, to the registered electors at a regular, coordinated election to be held on November 4, 2025
Body
From:
James L. Becklenberg, City Manager
Prepared by:
Colleen L. Norton, City Clerk
Presentations:
Reid Betzing, City Attorney
PURPOSE:
To refer a ballot question to the registered electors at the upcoming November 4, 2025, regular, coordinated election as the result of a successful citizen-initiated petition.
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
High-Quality Governance
DISCUSSION:
As the result of citizen-initiated petition to add a section to the city's charter, the following question will be added to the November 4, 2025 ballot:
"Shall Section 65.5. Preservation of Neighborhood Land Use Restrictions, be added to clarify the intent of the citizens to preserve single-family residential land use and ensure that current and future owners of property in certain residential zoning districts may rely on restrictions on land uses that protect their properties. Accordingly, land uses of properties presently permitted under the Littleton Unified Land Use Code (ULUC) within zoning districts Small Lot Residential (SLR), Medium Lot Residential (MLR), Large Lot Residential (LLR), and Acreage Residential (ACR) are limited to uses specified therein as of January 1, 2025. Furthermore, any action by Council to initiate any comprehensive rezoning and official zoning map amendments, including text changes, shall first require notification to all affected property owners by First Class mail delivered by the United States Postal Service. Nothing herein shall prohibit or prevent a property owner from seeking rezoning of the owner's property."
Pursuant to C.R.S. ? 31-2-210(3) "...if the petition is sufficient, the governing body shall set a ballot title for the proposed amendment at its next meeting."
BACKGROUND:
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