Writer Purple mountains. Both sides of the growth debate agree that Colorado's beauty is what unites us. In the foreground, an earth-moving machine spews black smoke and tears at the ground.
Angry horns sound in traffic jams.
Opponents of Amendment 24 are running a TV ad featuring a slender, dark-haired woman sitting in a pristine glade of trees, surrounded by the kind of rugged, attractive boulders people like to use in their landscaping. She then goes online to study the amendment, and decides it will burden voters. Amendment 24 would let local voters decide, in regular November elections, where new growth will be allowed in their communities. Local governments first would send the voters planning maps and information about the proposed growth's cost and its impacts on such things as streets and sewer systems. The ad flashes quotations from the Denver Rocky Mountain News , the Pueblo Chieftain and the G rand Junction Sentinel , so quickly that they're nearly impossible to read .