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Boulder County planning commission backs code change to treat licensed group homes as households, asks staff to find path for larger facilities
Summary
The Boulder County Planning Commission voted Oct. 15 to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners approve text amendments (Docket DC240004) that add licensed group homes to the household definition and strike separate boarding‑house and group‑care/foster‑home uses, while directing staff to develop options for two existing larger facilities that would become nonconforming.
On Oct. 15, the Boulder County Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend the Board of County Commissioners approve Docket DC240004, a set of land‑use code text amendments that would explicitly include state‑defined, licensed group homes in the county’s household definition and remove separate boarding‑house and group‑care/foster‑home uses from the code.
The change is intended to align the county’s zoning rules with federal fair‑housing law and recent state guidance treating licensed group homes as residential uses. Kaylee Byrne, long‑range planner with Community Planning and Permitting, told commissioners the proposed household language would make clear that “group homes that are defined, licensed, and or certified by the state … are households” and would be allowed wherever a dwelling unit is allowed, subject to the same occupancy limits as other households.
Why it matters: The amendment would simplify how the code treats small, residential‑scale group homes but also has practical consequences for larger or…
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