Search 900,000 of the world's best sites . You've just returned home from a long day at work and from picking up the kids from soccer practice. Just as you start cooking dinner, you begin sorting through the mail. In it, with the bills and J Crew catalogue, you find a packet filled with dozens of maps and proposed development plans for the area. These, you're told, will need to be studied and understood before heading to the polls to decide whether you support or oppose each of the proposed growth plans.
Environmental groups make up the majority of the supporters.
Communities would be locked into adopted growth plans until the next November election, which could be a turnoff to prospective businesses looking at the state who won't want to wait a year to hear if their plan is approved. Critics also say the initiative could negatively impact Colorado's rural areas by decreasing the future value of land owned by farmers and ranchers in areas subjected to the growth restrictions. Both sides agree they'd like to see Colorado the way it was 20 or 30 years ago, but realize that can't happen. And both agree the initiative won't stop people from coming to the state. But they disagree on where those people should go.