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Developers caution Summit County: zoning and timeline risks could limit responses to Klein Valley RFP

Summit County Council · November 13, 2024
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Summary

Developers and nonprofit housing providers told the council that the Klein Valley housing RFP is likely to underperform unless the county clarifies zoning/entitlement, stages the RFP, and eases submittal requirements; several recommended a phased master-plan first approach.

Council and staff reviewed a draft RFP for housing on the Klein Valley parcel and then heard nearly three hours of developer feedback on feasibility, zoning and sequencing.

Tony Tyler, representing private developers, flagged rezone and entitlement risk as the chief deterrent to meaningful private-sector responses. "Don't ask for single family homes if you can't actually physically entitle them," Tyler told the council, urging…

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