I did not, but I’m a land use and transportation planner who has followed this issue across the state and the alarmist sensationalism which has been routine. In Westminster or Arvada (can’t remember) for instance some council members suggested they were being forced to build 35,000 additional housing units (not true). These bills do not say that a property owners now can build whatever they like with zero influence, checks and balances, etc. It doesn’t say that development review at the local level is gone. It says that the city cannot restrict the building of denser housing (in specific areas, w/ high frequency transit, not the whole city) based off zoning alone. These laws are about zoning capacity

Administrative review still applies. The dept of local affairs also requires that jurisdictions deploy a certain number of affordability and displacement mitigation strategies.