Denver Planning Board Votes In Favor Of Group Living Zoning Changes

From CBS Denver:

By Kati Weis

August 19, 2020

DENVER (CBS4) – As the city of Denver seeks to provide a wide variety of equitable, affordable housing in the city, the city’s planning board has voted in favor of proposed plans to its group living rules. The proposed plans will now go to the city council for discussion and decision.

The unanimous approval came with an amended text to ask that an evaluation should be conducted annually over the next four years looking into the unintended consequences of the new rules. All voted yes for the amended text. The board voted also that a community meeting must be held before a community corrections facility can open in a single unit, two-unit, or row-house zone districts.

The approval vote comes following a more than eight-hour-long meeting Wednesday, with 74 people speaking during the public comment period, and planning board members asked dozens of questions about the proposal. The decision also comes after three years of work and research by city officials.

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