El Paso planning affidavits need every title owner's signature

A land-use application around Colorado Springs can stall for a reason that has nothing to do with the plan itself: the wrong set of people signed the affidavit.

On El Paso County’s current planning forms page, every affidavit must be signed and notarized by all property owners listed on the title. The person living on the land may be only one of them.

For a property with two or more title owners, one resident’s signature is not enough. A trust, business, or inherited property can raise a separate question about who is authorized to sign for the listed owner. Ask Planning and Community Development what proof it needs before notarizing the form.

Pull the title and read it before filling out the affidavit, so you know whose signatures to gather. El Paso County posts the current forms and answers signing questions through Planning and Community Development.