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Brighton presents affordable-housing plan draft: staff seeks feedback on AMI definition and fee reductions
Summary
Affordable housing coordinator Sean Wyman outlined steps to implement the city's housing needs assessment: redefine affordable-housing AMI, offer fee reductions to enable affordable projects, and expedite review for eligible projects; council voiced support and requested constraints and fiscal detail.
Sean Wyman, Brighton's new affordable housing coordinator, presented an initial work plan and proposed definition and incentive changes to the City Council at a study session on Jan. 28, 2025. Wyman laid out steps to increase housing supply at lower price points, align local definitions with widely used income measures and use targeted fee reductions to make affordable projects feasible.
Wyman summarized the housing-needs assessment adopted by the council in October 2023 and said the city needs roughly 3,100 homes over the next 10 years, including about 400 units at 80% area median income (AMI) and 1,000 units at 60% AMI and below to serve workforce and retired residents. "Providing 60% and less area median income housing is the main recommendation of the HNA," Wyman said. He recommended the city adopt a single authoritative AMI definition (staff recommended Adams County AMI data) and revise the municipal impact-fee reduction matrix so incentives are clear and scalable by AMI level.
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