The questions Niwot is actually asking.

You’ve heard the worries around town. Here are the straight answers — in the order people tend to raise them.

This is about the opposite of development. Right now the decisions about what gets built in and around Niwot are made twenty miles away, by people who don’t live here. Incorporation is how Niwot stops development being done to it and gets a say over its own land, its own roads, and its own future.

We’re neighbors who want to keep Niwot the place we chose. The whole point is to keep it what it is — to keep Niwot, Niwot.

It’s the reverse. The new government answers to you. A town charter is written by nine charter commissioners you elect — neighbors whose job is to put limits on the government, not expand it. You elect the town council, and if they don’t serve Niwot, you vote them out.

This is a non-partisan coalition — the enemy here isn’t a party, it’s distance and drift. A small town of neighbors is about as far from a distant power grab as you can get.

There’s no power being seized here — there’s a seat being filled. The chair meant for Niwot has sat empty this whole time, which is exactly why every decision keeps getting made without us. Incorporation doesn’t take power from anyone. It just puts someone in the chair — and that someone is you.

Yes — and we’ll be straight about how much. For the median Niwot home — about $1.1 million, using the county assessor’s own values — it’s about $55 a month (roughly $640 a year), with most homes between $40 and $85: a 2.5% town sales tax and a 4-mill property levy. That’s about a tank of gas.

The property piece scales with your home — figured on its value after Colorado’s statutory reduction (the lesser of 10% or $70,000) — and the tier table on what it costs shows every step, from a $500,000 home to a $2 million one. Either way the money stays in Niwot, spent on the streets you drive every day, not sent somewhere else.

No. Nothing you rely on disappears the day Niwot becomes a town. Your fire district, your water, your schools, your mail — they keep working. Incorporation adds a say over local decisions; it doesn’t switch off the services already serving you.

No. A roads-only special district (a PID) loads the whole bill onto homeowners. A town spreads the cost across sales tax and property tax — so every shopper and visitor who spends a dollar in Niwot helps pay for Niwot. Same roads, lower cost to you, plus a real say.

And a PID only gets more expensive the longer we wait: about 12 mills when residents proposed one in 2025, an estimated ~15 mills community-wide today — against the town’s 4-mill levy — because the roads keep degrading and the county stopped chipping in. See how the cost climbs.

That’s the heart of it: read why roads come first and what it costs.

Election Day is November 3, 2026. Here’s how and when to vote — registration, mail ballots, and drop-off, all in one place.