Repeal U+2 ✅
We did it!!! THANK YOU to everyone who helped HB24-1007 pass.
Streamline Approvals
Multifamily housing should fall under the same approvals as single-family homes. In Fort Collins this means sending more proposals through administrative review instead of costly, arbitrary, and unpredictable hearings and appeals to city council. Our process shouldn't allow privileged neighbors to block affordable housing for reasons like neighborhood character.
Legalize Missing Middle Housing
Allowing more granny flats, basement apartments, cottage court houses, and other missing housing types will help address the crisis. YIMBY Fort Collins supports legalizing duplexes, triplexes, and small apartment buildings in more parts of Fort Collins. Allowing mixed-use in commercial areas along the MAX bus routes would also make a big difference. Fort Collins needs to implement new state housing laws and allow more housing in transit corridors.
Eliminate Parking Mandates
Fort Collins is filled with large empty parking spaces. Parking mandates eliminate the feasibility of building multifamily units on small lots. Commercial parking requirements also use up a valuable land that could be homes.
Eliminating parking mandates will also help Fort Collins reach our environmental and climate goals. Other cities have eliminated parking mandates, including Bend OR, Anchorage, Minneapolis, and our neighbor Longmont. Ending parking mandates does not mean the end of parking, but puts the decision of how much to build back in the hands of architects and homeowners.
Stop Sabotaging Housing
The devil is always in the details when it comes to new housing. Codes, permits, excessive impact fees and other technicalities should not used as tools to block housing: long setbacks on small lots, impossibly short height limits, impractical floor-to-area ratios, and historical preservation requirements should be flexible enough to allow housing.
Build (Fund) More Affordable Housing
We support the use of local, state, and federal funds to help house people of all incomes. Communities built, operated, and supported by local housing nonprofits using public funds are a crucial part of the solution. We enthusiastically endorse efforts to increase the supply of for-sale and rental mixed-income units, housing choice vouchers, supportive housing, and more. Fort Collins should prioritize affordable housing in the annual budgeting process.
