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Arapahoe County staff to submit draft housing‑opportunity mapping to state; commissioners signal support
Summary
County planning and GIS staff mapped transit areas and applied state exemptions under House Bill guidance to compute a draft housing opportunity goal; staff will submit the county’s draft assessment to the Department of Local Affairs and will follow with rezoning and transit‑center planning.
Arapahoe County planning staff presented a draft mapping analysis of transit areas required under recent state housing law and said they will submit the county’s preliminary assessment to the Colorado Department of Local Affairs.
Public Works planning staff and GIS analysts briefed the Board on the exercise to calculate the county’s housing‑opportunity acreage and the resulting housing opportunity goal (HOG) after applying exemptions allowed by the statute and DOLA guidance. Staff said they used the state’s transit buffers (quarter‑mile station walksheds and an eight‑mile transit corridor buffer for bus rapid transit), applied locally verified exemptions (floodplains, parks and open space, airport influence areas, school and government‑owned…
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