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Voters in Douglas County are deciding whether to become a home rule county. With ballots due June 24, the issue is stirring up a lot of strong feelings, amidst competing claims about what it would mean for this fast-growing part of Colorado.

Voters in Douglas County are deciding whether to become a home rule county. Ballots are due next week, and the issue has stirred up a lot of strong feelings amidst competing claims about what it would mean for this fast-growing part of Colorado.

“The more you pull, peel the onion back on this thing, the more it keeps getting rotted and rotted, stinkier and stinkier,” said Marshall.

On June 24, DougCo residents will vote on whether to form a Home Rule Charter Commission...and also elect members of that commission.

Leaders of conservative Douglas County want voters to give them more authority. The county says it'll allow them to break with state laws, but opponents disagree, and as voters cast their ballots, they question the movement's motives.

Abe Laydon is a current Douglas County Commissioner and in favor of home rule. Lora Thomas is a former Douglas County Commissioner and...

DENVER (KDVR) — Earlier this year, the Board of Douglas County Commissioners initiated the process of transitioning from a statutory form of government into a home rule county charter form of government.

Douglas County voters will face two decisions on June 24: whether to adopt home rule, and — regardless of how they vote on that question — who should serve on the charter commission if the measure passes. Up to 21 candidates can be selected to draft the new governing document, but their role only takes effect if the home rule measure is approved.

"Why would a land developer be interested in home rule? If it's for all these liberal versus conservative policies, it's clearly for a land grab," Roth said. CBS Colorado reached out to both companies to ask why they supported the campaign. Westside had "no comment," and Ventana did not respond.

Marshall Zelinger investigated Douglas County Commisisoner claims about home rule. They didn't check out.

Douglas County is trying to do something no other Colorado county has done in nearly 50 years - adopt home-rule authority that would give the conservative bastion south of Denver more autonomy and powers of self-governance. But the road to that reality has been anything but smooth...

Campaign finance reports have been filed for the committees supporting and opposing home rule in Douglas County, and they are starkly different.

The group is called Stop the Power Grab. It's urging people in the Colorado county to vote no in the special elections.

Local news articles from May 28-29, 2025 on the Home Rule town hall.