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	Podcast:		Aspen Public Radio Podcasts
	Episode:		Developers Say City Ordinance Eliminates Affordable Housing Incentives
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:05
	Publish Date:		2019-01-28 19:12:49
	Description:		A lawsuit was filed in Colorado District Court last week against the City of Aspen. Plaintiffs North Mill Street, LLC allege that an ordinance change by the city has devalued their property on the corner of North Mill Street and Puppy Smith Lane. This building is zoned service-commercial-industrial, or SCI. Aspen’s land use code states the SCI zone is for things are important to the local economy, but wouldn’t be appropriate in the downtown commercial core. This includes light industrial use, manufacturing, production and repair. Both free-market and affordable housing used to be allowed in these zoning areas too, however, during a overhaul of our land use code in 2016, that rule changed. Now, only affordable housing units are allowed and free-market residential is banned. There have been two owners of the Mill Street building since the code change, and both claim Ordinance 29 has effectively terminated profitable development on their land. They argue the land-use changes, which were
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