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File #: CPC CA 20-00087    Version: Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Mayor's Office
File created: 5/27/2020 In control: City Council
On agenda: 6/23/2020 Final action: 6/23/2020
Title: Ordinance No. 20-38 amending multiple sections of Article 2 (Basic Provisions, Definitions and Land Use Types and Classifications) and Multiple sections of 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 Dwelling Units (Legislative) Presenter: Hannah Van Nimwegen, Senior Planner, Planning and Community Development Department Peter Wysocki, Director of Planning and Community Development
Attachments: 1. ORD_CodeAmendmentADU_Definitions & Conditional Use Permit, 2. Restrictive Covenant - Owner Occupancy, 3. Restrictive Covenant - Subdivision, 4. Signed Ordinance 20-38.pdf
Related files: CPC CA 20-00006, CPC CA 19-00027, CPC CA 20-00088

Title
Ordinance No. 20-38 amending multiple sections of Article 2 (Basic Provisions, Definitions and Land Use Types and Classifications) and Multiple sections of 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 Dwelling Units

(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 presented the three ordinances to the City Council on June 9, 2020. The motion which approved Ordinance 1.2 revised two sections:
1. Code Section M.1.a.4: "In the A (Agriculture) zone district, the owner shall..."
2. Code Section M.1.b.A.1: "Enforcement of the requirements would create a temporary economic hardship that could be resolvable within two (2) years;..."
Those edits have been made in the attached ordinance. Information presented below is the same as when presented on June 9, 2020.

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 access...

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