Tag: urban planning
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Think twice before allowing two accessory dwelling units behind every single-family home | Bob Loevy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The many volunteer homeowner associations that surround downtown Colorado Springs are organizing to strenuously resist changes to single-family zoning being proposed by the city government. Among those associations is the Old North End Neighborhood, located between Colorado College and Penrose Hospital along North Cascade and…
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Colorado lawmakers begin to tackle major housing bills, including occupancy limitations
Major measures on housing are starting to move at the state Capitol this week, which saw the first hearings on some of the roughly 260 bills introduced in this session so far. Colorado faces an acute housing shortage. One study puts the deficit in metro Denver region alone at 45,025 to 115,012 housing units. As…
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Another round in the high-density zoning battles of Colorado Springs | COLUMN
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The argument over allowing higher population densities in older established neighborhoods in Colorado Springs is about to heat up again. The city government is moving forward with RetoolCOS, a program to rewrite the city’s residential…