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Longmont council amends zoning to allow daycare centers in more residential districts
Summary
On July 22 the City Council approved first reading of Ordinance 2025-43, amended to permit commercial daycare/early childhood facilities in mixed-neighborhood zones and allow conditional (secondary) daycare uses in single-family and rural residential zones; the first-reading vote passed 6-1.
Longmont — The Longmont City Council on July 22 advanced a zoning change on first reading that will expand where commercial daycare and early childhood education centers can locate in the city.
Councilors amended Ordinance 2025-43 to add daycare centers as a permitted use in the RMN (mixed neighborhood) zoning district and as a conditional, secondary use in RSF (single-family) and RRU (rural) residential districts. The ordinance, as amended, passed first reading 6-1 with Councilor Christ opposing initially; Councilor Yarbrough was absent.
Councilor Popkin proposed the amendment to increase…
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