Comprehensive Plan Adopted 2010 - City of Woodland Park

Goals, Objectives and Actions
Housing Goal 1: Provide a balanced and diverse housing supply that is
well-designed, well-maintained, and available and accessible to all citizens
throughout the entire community.
Housing
Housing Objective 1.1: Promote stable, safe, diverse neighborhoods
throughout Woodland Park that provide a wide range of housing options and link
residents to destinations to learn, work, shop, recreate and relax.
Begin implementation:
ongoing
1-2
years
1-2
years
ongoing
Housing Action 1.1.1: Developers should demonstrate how their project
meets both the City’s Design Standards and the Community Design and
Development Principles set forth in the Community Character and
Design Chapter. An important consideration is that each new project or
subdivision should add to the mix of housing models, styles and lot sizes
to ensure that housing types are integrated; contribute to Woodland
Park’s character; enable people to remain in the community as their
needs change and protect existing neighborhoods’ property values,
integrity and character.
Housing Action 1.1.2: Review and revise Woodland Park’s zoning code
as necessary to promote mixed-use buildings such as live/work units in
the downtown and accessory dwelling units such as carriage apartments
and caretaker residences in appropriate areas.
Ref: Land Use 1.2.1 and Community Character and Design 1.1.1, 1.2.1
and 1.3.1
Housing Action 1.1.3: Update Woodland Park’s multi-family zoning
standards related to building heights, parking standards, landscaping
and open space requirements to encourage and facilitate multi-family
development.
Housing Action 1.1.4: Encourage developers/builders to incorporate
ADA-adaptable units or to include universal design and visitability
standards in new construction projects.
Housing Objective 1.2: Integrate affordable housing for a diverse workforce
such as teachers, police, fire fighters, seniors or disabled individuals on a fixed
income and low income families into new residential developments when
feasible.
1-2
years
1-2
years
Housing Action 1.2.1: Maintain a list of specific properties within the City
where affordable single and multi-family projects, both for rent or
purchase, can occur the soonest.
Housing Action 1.2.2: Concentrate initial affordable housing efforts in
the core downtown area (infill/mixed use), new neighborhoods and other
appropriate areas identified in 1.2.1 while considering the impact on the
more established, outlying neighborhoods.
Ref: Economic Development 1.5.2 and Community Character and
Design 1.2.1
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