Suburban Denver elections feature questions on taxes, charter changes

Off-year elections are often sleepy affairs, featuring ballots filled with questions about tax increases, changes to charter language, minutiae on vacancy appointments and details about municipal office terms.

While all of that is true in Tuesday’s election, there are a couple of measures in the Denver suburbs — and slightly beyond — that have generated a bit more attention.

One has to do with Colorado’s fraught and ongoing quest to land more affordable housing. The other has to do with sex.

Littleton voters will be deciding on a charter amendment that would make it more difficult to build anything but single-family homes in a large chunk of the city. It comes amid a wider — and fierce — debate over how to address Colorado’s lack of affordable housing, a fight that has spurred municip