By Jason Blevins | The Colorado Sun
Colorado lawmakers Thursday dropped bipartisan legislation that would allow local voters to raise their county lodging tax rate to 6% from the existing 2%.
The potential tripling of local lodging taxes — which mountain town voters have recently embraced as a way to fund affordable housing — would also come with an expansion in the types of projects that could be funded with lodging tax revenue.
House Bill 1247 would allow increased lodging tax revenue to fund infrastructure, preserve historical sites, land and wildlife habitat, promote sustainable tourism practices, and employ more police and emergency workers.