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HB10-1107: House Bill to Redefine ‘Blight’

Urban renewal zones carved out of open farmland, such as the one at east Loveland’s Centerra development, would be mostly disallowed under provisions of a measure passed Monday by the Colorado House of Representatives, The Loveland Reporter-Herald reports. The bill that now moves to the Colorado Senate targets communities such as Timnath that have taken advantage of state law permitting declarations that farmland is “blighted” in establishing vast urban renewal districts. In the case of Timnath, an urban renewal authority covers the entire town, or more than 5,000 acres of land.

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