Verification catch: Lakewood's new zoning code was repealed by voters

Our Colorado research initially profiled Lakewood's fall-2025 zoning rewrite (operative January 1, 2026) as current law. The adversarial pass caught what nearly every published source misses: certified referendum petitions suspended the new code on January 12, 2026 — after just twelve days in force — and voters repealed all four rewrite ordinances at an April 7, 2026 special election (~62.5%). We held the page, re-verified the restored pre-rewrite Title 17 against charter text, ordinance attestations, and official election results, and published it with the saga documented. The 1,400 sq ft size cap survives — it came from the June 2024 state-compliance amendment, not the repealed rewrite. Also caught before publication: Westminster codified its 750 sq ft small-home guarantee in March 2026 (Ord 4335), Longmont's 800 sq ft is not a hard cap, and Fort Collins' ADU ordinance is 009-2025 alone.

This entry records a mistake we made and fixed. Corrections stay published rather than being edited away — a changelog you can only read forwards isn’t evidence of anything. How we verify: methodology.