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Council holds work session on proposed community housing (inclusionary zoning) regulations
Summary
Planner Angie Kemp presented a draft Section 7-13 establishing Community Housing Regulations to encourage development of housing for local workers and retirees via on-site units, fee-in-lieu, land donation or off-site build options; eligibility rules would require owner-occupancy nine months of the year and a local worker or retiree in the household.
Senior Planner Angie Kemp led a work session on proposed Community Housing Regulations (Section 7-13) and accompanying guidelines designed as an incremental inclusionary zoning policy. The draft framework would require developments to provide options to support local workforce and retiree housing by providing units on-site, paying a fee in lieu, donating land, or building at an alternate site. Kemp said the compliance calculations were adjusted to be more favorable to smaller developments and that the Area Median Income thresholds would create a range of households likely to be served.
Housing Administrator Eva Henson described best-practice implementation tools and emphasized that inclusionary zoning is one tool among several to support affordability. Kemp said eligibility for occupancy would require owner-occupation nine out of twelve months and that one household member must work or be retired from work in Ouray County. The Council engaged in detailed questions on policy design and next steps for public outreach and drafting.
