Dive Brief:

• Denver Mayor Michael Hancock says the state Legislature needs to reconsider a decision last year that killed a proposal for condominium developers to get a chance to fix defects before someone can sue them.
• The proposal died in a committee in the Democratically controlled Senate committee, but Hancock, a Democrat, says that was the wrong decision.
• The bill would have covered condos in transit-oriented projects, and Hancock said it's wrong to have more than 40 transit sites under development in the Denver area in a legal climate in which developers are reluctant to erect any affordable housing near them.

Dive Insight:

The mayor was speaking to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Denver. He got support from the minority leader of the state House of Representatives at the event, but the House speaker and the Senate president, both fellow Democrats, did not address the issue when they spoke after Hancock.