City of Glendale v. Buchanan

An action was brought in the trial court seeking a declaratory judgment that constitutional Amendment No. 1, commonly known as the Poundstone Amendment, adopted by the electorate at the 1974 general election, is void. The trial court held that the amendment is valid and we affirm.

Amendment No. 1 was an initiated proposal to amend Article XIV, Section 3 and Article XX, Section 1 of the Constitution of the State of Colorado. Article XIV, Section 3 provided that no territory of a county may be annexed to a neighboring county without the approval of the voters of the county in which the affected…