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Littleton citizen-led charter amendment likely heading to November ballot Nextdoor to Lakewood, the same battle over zoning continues. In Littleton, the residents mounted a coordinated effort to stop the city from changing zoning. Now they propose to change the charter with a ballot vote on the subject. Meanwhile in Lakewood, City Council will not even postpone the zoning code changes until after the regular election. By: Danielle Kreutter from denver7.com LITTLETON, Colo. — There’s a big decision for voters in Littleton coming this November after a community-led citizen group was able to gather enough signatures to put a proposed charter amendment on the ballot. Like many residents, Mark Harris was enamored with Littleton’s small town charm when he moved there eight years ago. “We wanted a hometown feel. We wanted nice, quiet neighborhoods,” he said. That’s why a recent city council ordinance caught his eye. “We spent a good part of 2024…—we had five public meetings, we had public outreach, talking about what it would look like to allow duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, into single-family residential areas,” said Littleton Mayor Kyle Schlachter. It was part of the city’s effort to take a look at inclusionary housing options for the growing city. “We had about 300 residents show up in our council chambers at that meeting saying that they hadn’t heard about this. They didn’t like the changes. So, council listened to them, and we said, ‘Okay, fine. Well, we will stop this and pause this,’ Schlachter said, “We didn’t want to make some policy changes that we felt like the whole community, or a portion of the community, didn’t understand, and so that’s why we paused that then.” Read the rest of the story here…