The court held that such intermittent use did not qualify as a preexisting nonconforming use, citing the owners' primarily residential use, lack of permits to operate a business and failure to pay sales taxes. Provisions prevent creation of restrictive covenants and remove from the records existing restrictive covenants that are unenforceable under the state civil rights laws regarding discrimination as to color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, ancestry, familial status or disability. The mere existence of such a covenant, even though unenforceable and accompanied by a statement of un-enforceability, will become a form of prohibited housing discrimination. Gov't Code 12955. Homeowner association boards must revise association documents to remove such covenants, even without approval from the association members.
Attorneys fees are available in suits to force such action.
Civil Code 1352.5. Colorado curbs municipal jurisdiction over nuisances. Municipalities no longer have jurisdiction to control nuisances resulting from agriculture-related businesses in one mile strips immediately outside municipal borders. Colorado revises local power to establish redevelopment areas. The act attempts to define more specifically the circumstances that may justify treatment of an area as blighted, requires localities to draw boundaries of such areas as narrowly as feasible and sets different standards depending on whether the affected land-owners accept or object to the redevelopment efforts.