No drones are dropping off packages at homes in Colorado yet — but they’re coming.

And Northglenn wants to get out ahead of the nascent technology, which is already operating in several states and can deliver thousands of items to a customer’s front door — from printer cartridges to cold medicine to bananas — inside a 30-minute window.

In the past week, the northern suburb of nearly 40,000 rolled out a set of proposed regulations for drone delivery, rules that its City Council could finalize as early as next month. Northglenn says it is the first Colorado city to develop regulations for the latest innovation in convenience culture.

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