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Pitkin County staff propose policy path to allow limited affordable housing outside UGBs after water, infrastructure review
Summary
County staff presented analysis tying Vision 2050 and Community Growth Advisory Committee recommendations to a water‑and‑land‑use framework that would allow limited affordable housing outside urban growth boundaries where public water/sewer and other criteria permit it.
Pitkin County staff told the Board of County Commissioners on May 20 that updates to county land‑use policies being developed through the Vision 2050 and comprehensive‑plan process could enable new or denser affordable housing outside current urban growth boundaries (UGBs) only where practical infrastructure and environmental criteria are met.
County Manager Kara Silbernaugle and planning consultants presented an approach that starts with the Community Growth Advisory Committee’s recommendation to emphasize affordable and “middle‑market” housing and then applies a set of “enabling and limiting factors” to identify where limited development outside UGBs could be appropriate.
Shelby of Brendle/Brentel Group (planning consultant) summarized the water analysis: nearly all Pitkin County water supply is surface water or tributary groundwater; about 70% of residents receive water from public/regulatory community water systems and the remainder rely…
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