GLENWOOD SPRINGS – — Home builders looking to develop in unincorporated areas of Garfield County will have a free pass on the county’s affordable housing requirements for three years.
County commissioners, at their regular Monday meeting, unanimously approved the “building incentive” designed to spur more housing construction in the county.
The latest move by the commissioners suspends the affordable housing obligation for developers starting March 1 of this year until March 2015.
In December, the commissioners amended the county’s affordable housing regulations. Those changes included:
• Limiting the rules to apply only to residential subdivisions in the Glenwood Springs and Carbondale areas of the county, where housing prices tend to be higher.
• Increasing the trigger point for residential subdivisions to come under the affordable housing requirements, from five units to 15.
• Lowering the required number of deed-restricted units in a subdivision from 15 percent back to 10 percent.
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