Tag: adu
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Fight over shipping container ADU a sign for future zoning disputes in Colorado Springs?
At the end of a road north of Old Colorado City sits a shipping container. The black box has been the focus of an 18-month effort by a neighbor to get the unpermitted and wrongly placed accessory rental unit out of their sight. In spring 2023, Thomas Helger and his wife noticed a large box…
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Colorado Springs starts expanding rules to allow more accessory dwelling units
Colorado Springs is taking steps to follow state direction to allow smaller, secondary housing in a much wider swath of the city’s neighborhoods. Colorado lawmakers passed a bill in the spring that eliminated some of the restrictions in Colorado’s biggest cities against accessory dwelling units. The ADUs are living areas that can be built as free-standing…