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HB10-1158: Wind Rights Dead for Now

A bill that would have made the wind blowing across your land a private property right unto itself was tabled indefinitely last week after a state study said the bill would have created a new way to tax landowners, but its sponsor says “severing” wind rights still has legs, the Coloradoan reports. House Bill 1158, sponsored by Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, was shelved, but Gardner said Friday that landowners on the Eastern Plains are starting to deed away their wind rights and the law isn’t clear about how that figures into property rights in Colorado.

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