A battle is brewing in the Martin Acres neighborhood over a proposed housing cooperative that would place up to 16 people in one house on a single-family street in south Boulder.
On Ingram Court, a rather quiet horseshoe of roadway off of Moorhead Avenue, the nonprofit Boulder Housing Coalition has plans to open a co-op inside of a 4,600-square-foot home.
They’re seeking an exception to the 12-person maximum in order to house more people than what would typically be allowed.
“I am very concerned about the potential impact to the neighborhood of introducing cooperative housing on this street,” wrote Pat Noyes, next-door neighbor of the home in question, in an email to Sloane Walbert, the city’s lead staffer for co-op licensing.
“(A)s far as we knew,” wrote Mike Marsh, a Martin Acres resident who vigorously fought the new law before its January approval, “the co-op ordinance passed by the City established 12 occupants as the maximum number of people for a co-op.”
In a jointly authored letter to the Daily Camera, five other Ingram Court neighbors said the proposed 16-person co-op “epitomizes” Boulder’s many “poorly thought out” policies.
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