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New COVID-19 restrictions will INCOMING prohibit indoor dining, personal gatherings

Horizon’s Davis Wilkins delivers a pitch during the Hawks victory over Arvada West on Friday. The Hawks were unable to do the same thing against Praire View April 20. See PHOTO BY JONATHAN MANESS the story, Page 7.

Requirements dramatically pared back in governor’s “land-use” bill

A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent weeksBYdue high demand. Adams County’s test positivity rate JESSEto PAUL AND ELLIOTT WENZLER Senate14-day Bill 213. Instead, those citTHE COLORADO like Denver, Aurora, Boulder, was 15.9 percent, as ofSUNNov. 17, accordingiesto—Tri-County Health Department. Englewood, Colorado Fort Brighton and Commerce City’s test positivity rates were bothSprings, higher than Gov. Jared Polis and Democrats in Collins, Lakewood, Pueblo, Thorn13 percent. Forty-five people Brighton and 29Westminster in Commerce have the Colorado legislature signifiincantly ton and —City would only died from related health Toto limit the spreadtriplexes of COVID-19, pared backCOVID-19 their major land-use billissues. have let duplexes, and amid big15questions fourplexesthat be built in 30% of their at least counties about movedwhether to tighter restrictions prohibits indoor and their signature affordable housing land area currently zoned for singlepersonal gatherings. initiative at the Capitol this year can family homes, concentrated around get enough support to pass. train and high-frequency bus corColorado’s largest cities would no ridors where applicable. longer be required to let multifamThe change, which in midPhoto bycame Belen Ward ily housing with up to six units be April, shifts the legislation away built in all residentially zoned areas from attempting to broadly increase under a major amendment made to housing density to a more limited

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As Denver metrotocounties approach linked transit.continue Withoutto inchchanges, closer to local stay-at-home orders the it appeared the bill, which has received major opposiunder Colorado’s system of coronavirustion from cities and across the related restrictions, thetowns state announced state, would lack enough support to a new its level of rules that prohibits indoor clear first committee. dining and personal —a In all, there weregatherings 17 amendments changeto that to the majority the made theapplies bill, totaling dozensofof pages. One of the major changes Denver metro area and many counties in reduces land-use requirements on other regions. resort communities, like Aspen and The state’s COVID-19 dial, which has Vail. been effect since September, is the set TheinSenate Local Government of different levels of restrictions that each and Housing Committee approved the overhauled measure on a 4-3

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county is required to follow based on the severity of a county’s local virus spread. The dial grew out of the state’s safer-athome with orderall — of thethe policy that cameon after vote, Democrats the statewide stay-at-home order the panel voting “yes” and all this of the Republicans “no.” It was spring and allowedvoting numerous types of unclear whether the measure would businesses to reopen. have enough votes to advance and state recently switched color theThe committee hearing wastodelayed identifiers — levels blue, yellow and for hours while amendments were rather numbered levels — to fiorange nalized andthan negotiated. Senate Majority Leader Dominick avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red Moreno, a Commerce City Demomeant a stay-at-home order. Now, level crat and prime sponsor of the bill, red — “severe risk” — is the secondwarned that more changes were needed. “By no means does the

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