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Commerce City staff to study build‑to‑rent approach and parking flexibility after council questions
Summary
Staff presented the build‑to‑rent housing type and asked whether Commerce City should allow flexible, site‑wide parking standards. Commissioners and council members expressed interest in parking flexibility but asked staff to study neighborhood concentration, accessibility and potential limits on the number or location of build‑to‑rent projects.
Commerce City staff presented "build‑to‑rent" — single‑family‑style houses built on a single owner parcel and rented rather than sold — as a new product type and asked whether the Land Development Code should treat such projects differently from traditional subdivisions.
Planner Heather Vidlock described the product: developers keep ownership of a multi‑unit site instead of subdividing into individual lots, and the housing can appear like detached single‑family homes or small attached units. The development community asked for flexibility on parking standards so parking can be grouped (similar to an apartment complex) rather than provided at each unit. Staff asked…
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