Citizens’ Group Forms to Battle City over Property Rights
Leave My Home Alone! (LMHA) is a grassroots group of citizens in Boulder, CO working to stop Boulder City Council from taking away our property rights. The use, flexibility and value of our homes and land are directly tied to our hopes and dreams for our lives and families in Boulder. Council is poised to dictate aesthetics – unreasonably limiting the size and configuration of our homes – with a punitive and extreme array of complex rules and regulations that will make additions and remodels to our homes expensive, difficult or impossible.
The proposed rules impact most single-family residential property in the city – roughly 10,000 homes - representing a massive taking of value from Boulder’s citizens. Most homeowners in Boulder stand to lose tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars – and the intrinsic value of having and using a home without overly oppressive restrictions.
Our group includes a wide array of folks sharing the common ground that Boulder City Council is going too far with its recent effort to homogenize the city at the expense of our property rights and freedom. We are seeking to stop Council before these regulations are enacted, and if that effort fails, to take this issue to the voters in order to stop Council’s misguided attempt to freeze the city in amber. What can you do to help protect your home and your property rights?
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