{"id":1381204,"date":"2018-12-06T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/eagle-considering-home-rule-a-local-constitution-for-the-town-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:03:00","slug":"eagle-considering-home-rule-a-local-constitution-for-the-town-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/eagle-considering-home-rule-a-local-constitution-for-the-town-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagle considering home rule, a local constitution for the town"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Randy Wyrick<\/a><\/span> EAGLE \u2014 Eagle is one of two Eagle County communities that do not operate under their own rules, but the state’s.
\nEagle will probably ask voters to change that and adopt what’s called home rule, but voters have a couple years to consider the question. Eagle’s home rule election would not roll around until April 2021.<\/p>\n

Advantages of home rule
\nHome rule has some advantages and disadvantages, Eagle Town Manager Brandy Reitter told the town board.
\nAmong the biggest advantages are autonomy and local control. For now, Eagle has to operate under state law.
\nThat could be a problem for a community facing the kind of growth Eagle might see, Reitter said. The town has almost 2,000 housing units either already approved, or in the approval pipeline.
\nHome rule, or self government, would give Eagle the flexibility it needs to deal with that kind of growth.
\nReitter said home rule is “modernizing local government,” and provides “flexibility.”
\nRight now, the town’s government is hindered by the laws and policies of the state government, and has been since the town was founded more than a century ago.
\nState legislators come and go, but their policies remain, which can be problematic for towns, Reitter said.<\/p>\n

Disadvantages of home rule
\nHome rule is not without its disadvantages, Reitter said.
\n“If it’s poorly written it could saddle a town with ambiguity or restrictions it had not anticipated.” Reitter said.
\nAlso, if citizens aren’t on board at the time, they could reject the idea when the election rolls around.
\nA town writing its own rules, instead of following the state’s, tends to be popular. In Eagle County, Vail, Avon, Gypsum and Basalt are all home rule towns. Only Eagle and Red Cliff are not.
\nOf Colorado’s 271 municipalities, 101 are home rule. Those 101 home rule communities are home to more than 90 percent Colorado’s town residents, Reitter said.
\nThe town would still operate under Colorado’s TABOR and Gallagher amendments, which means they’d have to ask voter approval for tax increases.
\nBetween education and time, it’ll cost an estimated $117,000 between now and April 2021 to bring the issue to the town ballot, Reitter said.
\nStaff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935 and rwyrick@vaildaily.com. …read more<\/a> <\/p>\n

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EAGLE \u2014 Eagle is one of two Eagle County communities that do not operate under their own rules, but the state’s.
\nEagle will probably ask voters to change that and adopt what’s called home rule, but voters have a couple years to consider the question. Eagle’s home rule election would not roll around until April 2021.<\/p>\n

Advantages of home rule
\nHome rule has some advantages and disadvantages, Eagle Town Manager Brandy Reitter told the town board.
\nAmong the biggest advantages are autonomy and local control. For now, Eagle has to operate under state law.
\nThat could be a problem for a community facing the kind of growth Eagle might see, Reitter said. The town has almost 2,000 housing units either already approved, or in the approval pipeline.
\nHome rule, or self government, would give Eagle the flexibility it needs to deal with that kind of growth.
\nReitter said home rule is “modernizing local government,” and provides “flexibility.”
\nRight now, the town’s government is hindered by the laws and policies of the state government, and has been since the town was founded more than a century ago.
\nState legislators come and go, but their policies remain, which can be problematic for towns, Reitter said.<\/p>\n

Disadvantages of home rule
\nHome rule is not without its disadvantages, Reitter said.
\n“If it’s poorly written it could saddle a town with ambiguity or restrictions it had not anticipated.” Reitter said.
\nAlso, if citizens aren’t on board at the time, they could reject the idea when the election rolls around.
\nA town writing its own rules, instead of following the state’s, tends to be popular. In Eagle County, Vail, Avon, Gypsum and Basalt are all home rule towns. Only Eagle and Red Cliff are not.
\nOf Colorado’s 271 municipalities, 101 are home rule. Those 101 home rule communities are home to more than 90 percent Colorado’s town residents, Reitter said.
\nThe town would still operate under Colorado’s TABOR and Gallagher amendments, which means they’d have to ask voter approval for tax increases.
\nBetween education and time, it’ll cost an estimated $117,000 between now and April 2021 to bring the issue to the town ballot, Reitter said.
\nStaff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935 and rwyrick@vaildaily.com. …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1381204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 11:05:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}