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Boulder City Land Sales Initiative, 1993 - 1997Entry/Object ID
MS.37Scope and Content
Boulder City Land Sales Initiative, 1993 - 1997
MS 37
Boulder City Land Sales Initiative
1993 - 1997
The Boulder City Land Sales Initiative refers to a series of citizen-sponsored efforts between 1993 and 1998 which tried to further limit Boulder City's growth by restricting the city council's ability to sell or lease land without voter approval. Many felt that the council was exploiting loop holes in the city's 1979 Controlled Growth Ordinance in favor of powerful developers, businessmen, and wealthy campaign contributors. The Boulder City Chamber of Commerce worked diligently on behalf of Boulder City's business community to defeat these initiatives in 1993 and 1995. The 1997 effort, however, was successful, and while the original 1997 ballot initiative included restricting the council's ability to both sell and lease land, the lease provision was dropped and the charter amendment passed making it impossible for the city council to sell one or more acres of city-owned land without voter approval. In the year following passage of the ballot initiative the city council leased more than 1300 acres of city-owned land for large-scale development including the Eldorado Valley power plant and the MGM's Hotel Casino's two private and semi-private golf courses.
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MS 37
Boulder City Land Sales Initiative
1993 - 1997
inventory
[1 box]
Box 1 of 1
ff no.
1. Boulder City Land Sales Initiative [BCLSI (1993)] -
affidavit of petitioners' committee and amendment text
2. BCLSI [1993] - Chamber of Commerce: campaign to defeat the
ballot question: chronology
3. BCLSI [1993] - Chamber of Commerce: campaign to defeat the
ballot question: expenditures
4. BCLSI [1993] - Chamber of Commerce: campaign to defeat the
ballot question: membership mailers
5. BCLSI [1993] - Chamber of Commerce: campaign to defeat the
ballot question: press release
6. BCLSI [1993] - Chamber of Commerce: campaign to defeat the
ballot question: propaganda
7. BCLSI [1993] - United Businesses of Boulder City: survey and
membership form
8. BCLSI [1995] - news clippings [1994]
9. BCLSI [1995] - Chamber of Commerce: campaign to defeat the
ballot question: membership mailers
10. BCLSI [1995] - Chamber of Commerce: campaign to defeat the
ballot question: letter from initiative sponsor Bill Smith
[April 13, 1995]
11. BCLSI [1995] - Chamber of Commerce: campaign to defeat the
ballot question: press release
12. BCLSI [1995] - propaganda
13. BCLSI [1995] - "1993-94 Development Summary"
14. BCLSI [1997] - news clippings [1997-98]
15. BCLSI [1997] - propaganda
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subject file [Boulder City - politics and government: land sales initiative]
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