As housing costs soar, Colorado leaders will push cities to get denser
“For a number of reasons, everything from just the pure cost of land to tap fees to the inefficiency one house at a time gets you, building taller and denser makes more sense in terms of the math of trying to finance these projects and actually make them happen,” said state Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Denver Democrat and vice chair of a legislative task force on affordable housing that is wrapping up its study now.
State government won’t command change at the local level; even if it were so motivated, the legislature could not abolish single-family zoning without inviting lawsuits centered around local-control laws.