{"id":910,"date":"2017-10-12T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/10\/12\/ordinance-trend-legal-trend-require-voter-approval-for-eminent-domain\/"},"modified":"2017-10-12T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T17:40:00","slug":"ordinance-trend-legal-trend-require-voter-approval-for-eminent-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/ordinance-trend-legal-trend-require-voter-approval-for-eminent-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordinance TREND + Legal TREND. Require Voter Approval for Eminent Domain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The City:<\/strong>\u00a0Littleton, CO &amp; Wheat Ridge, CO<\/p>\n<p><strong>The voter approval requirement:<\/strong>\u00a0To access urban renewal tools like tax increment financing or eminent domain require urban renewal<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did a district court in Colorado do with Wheat Ridge&#8217;s Ordinance? \u00a0T<\/strong>he Wheat Ridge ordinance, related to\u00a0mandating\u00a0that any tax-increment financing package over $2.5 million first get the consent of voters, is pre-empted by Colorado&#8217;s\u00a0supremacy on the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the city&#8217;s argument:<\/strong>\u00a0voter approval\u00a0will cost\u00a0time and money, and runs counter to what is established in state law regarding urban renewal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the property rights\/libertarian\/tea party argument for the ordinance?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>urban renewal has \u201coutlived its usefulness&#8221; and it is not an economic tool<\/li>\n<li>taxpayers\u00a0should have a say over how their tax dollars are used<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/10\/09\/wheat-ridge-will-not-challenge-judges-crackdown-on-urban-renewal-limits\/\">Denver Post |\u00a0Wheat Ridge will not challenge judge\u2019s crackdown on urban renewal limits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The City:<\/strong>\u00a0Littleton, CO &amp; Wheat Ridge, CO<\/p>\n<p><strong>The voter approval requirement:<\/strong>\u00a0To access urban renewal tools like tax increment financing or eminent domain require urban renewal<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did a district court in Colorado do with Wheat Ridge&#8217;s Ordinance? \u00a0T<\/strong>he Wheat Ridge ordinance, related to\u00a0mandating\u00a0that any tax-increment financing package over $2.5 million first get the consent of voters, is pre-empted by Colorado&#8217;s\u00a0supremacy on the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the city&#8217;s argument:<\/strong>\u00a0voter approval\u00a0will cost\u00a0time\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,30,10,14,37,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-blight","category-co-development","category-economic-development","category-legislation-trend","category-local-government-trend","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}