What a Yes vote decides — and what stays open.

We’d rather tell you what isn’t decided than pretend it’s all settled. Incorporation isn’t a blank check — it’s a beginning, with guardrails you control at every step. Here’s the honest line between the two.

A Yes vote settles a single question — whether Niwot becomes a town instead of an unincorporated piece of the county. That’s it. What it wins you is a say: a say over our own roads, a say over what gets built on our own land, a say over Niwot’s future.

Today those decisions are made twenty miles away by people who don’t live here. A Yes vote brings them home.

The town’s charter — the rulebook for how the government works — is written after the vote, not before it. It’s written by nine charter commissioners you elect: neighbors whose whole job is to put limits on the new government, not expand it.

And you don’t have to take it on faith: you get a second vote to approve the charter before it takes effect. Nothing is locked in over your objection.

The boundary isn’t an open question. The exact lines are written into the incorporation petition, and they’re the same lines that appear on your ballot — the historic Niwot we live in (Second Avenue, Cottonwood Square, Monarch Park, the Boulder Tech Center), and it excludes Gunbarrel. This is about the Niwot we live in, not a land grab of the neighbors. You can check whether your own address falls inside it.

And nothing you rely on gets handed off on day one. Your fire, water, and sanitation districts — and your schools — are their own independent districts. Incorporation doesn’t dissolve them or fold them into the town; they keep running exactly as they do today. Becoming a town simply gives Niwot a say over what the county controls now — our roads and our land.