Colorado Counties Acting Together (CCAT) has released its priorities for the 2027 legislative session, with a continued emphasis on strengthening local government authority, addressing housing challenges, supporting sustainable tourism, and ensuring counties have the resources needed to serve growing communities. While the agenda is broad, several priorities are particularly relevant to Colorado’s short-term rental industry.
CCAT continues to advocate for preserving local control, supporting policies that give counties flexibility to address community-specific challenges rather than imposing one-size-fits-all statewide mandates. The organization also identifies affordable housing as a major priority, signaling continued legislative interest in tools that local governments may use to increase housing availability.
For tourism-dependent communities, CCAT recognizes tourism as a critical economic driver and supports policies that promote sustainable tourism while ensuring visitors contribute to the infrastructure, transportation systems, public safety, and local services they rely upon. The organization also highlights investments in transportation, environmental resiliency, wildfire mitigation, and public lands management as priorities that directly affect Colorado’s visitor economy.
Although CCAT’s 2027 priorities do not propose specific new statewide short-term rental legislation, the policy platform suggests continued support for county flexibility in regulating land use, housing, and tourism-related issues. These priorities will be important to monitor throughout the 2027 legislative session, as they could influence future proposals affecting short-term rental regulations, lodging taxes, housing policy, and the balance between supporting Colorado’s tourism economy and addressing local housing needs.