City of Colorado Springs - File #: CPC CA 20-00006

• File #: CPC CA 20-00006
• Version: 5
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Mayor's Office
• File created: 1/14/2020
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 6/23/2020
• Final action: 6/23/2020
• Title: Ordinance No. 20-37 amending Article 2 (Basic Provisions, Definitions, and Land Use Types and Classifications) and Article 3 (Land Use Zoning Districts) of Chapter 7 (Planning, Development and Building) of the Code of the City of Colorado Springs 2001, as amended, pertaining to Accessory Family Suites (Legislative) Presenter: Hannah Van Nimwegen, Senior Planner, Planning and Community Development Department Peter Wysocki, Director of Planning and Community Development
• Related files: CPC CA 19-00027, CPC CA 20-00087, CPC CA 20-00088

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/23/2020	5	City Council	finally passed	Pass
6/9/2020	4	City Council	approved on first reading	Pass
5/22/2020	3	Council Work Session	referred
4/30/2020	1	Planning Commission	referred	Pass
1/27/2020	1	Council Work Session	referred

Title
Ordinance No. 20-37 amending Article 2 (Basic Provisions, Definitions, and Land Use Types and Classifications) and Article 3 (Land Use Zoning Districts) of Chapter 7 (Planning, Development and Building) of the Code of the City of Colorado Springs 2001, as amended, pertaining to Accessory Family Suites

(Legislative)

Presenter:
Hannah Van Nimwegen, Senior Planner, Planning and Community Development Department
Peter Wysocki, Director of Planning and Community Development

Body
Summary:
City Planning staff met with the City Council to discuss accessory family suites, accessory dwelling units, and the accessory dwelling unit overlay on May 22, 2020. At that meeting, City Council expressed a general support for ordinances 1.1 Accessory Family Suites and 1.2 Definitions and Accessory Dwelling Units, but requested modifications to ordinance 1.3 Accessory Dwelling Unit Overlay regarding its applicability to new development and existing neighborhoods.

Following the work session meeting on May 22, 2020, City Planning staff broke the three proposed ordinances into three file numbers so that each could be acted upon independently. Though City Planning staff views the three ordinances as a package, having each ordinance attached to a separate file number would allow for one or two of the proposed ordinances to move forward if there were remaining concerns on a remaining ordinance. This memo is regarding accessory family suites.

Background:
The proposed draft ordinance for accessory family suites is attached for consideration, and no modifications to this ordinance were made between City Council Work Session on May 22, 2020 and the June 9, 2020 hearing.

As proposed, accessory family suites will be permitted by right in all zone districts where a detached single-family home is an allowed use. These types of units are permitted as part of a detached single-family residence and would not be allowed as part of an accessory detached structure. Currently a s...