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City Council discusses new affordable housing

The Aspen City Council discussed building three new affordable apartment complexes during their work session this week. The conversation lasted three hours and touched on the differing interests involved.

The developments are planned for city-owned land near the S curves, the hospital and the base of Smuggler. Those properties are not zoned for high density residential, so must now go through the same zoning reviews that any private construction would have to go through. Jason Bradshaw is the project manager for the developer Aspen Housing Partnership. He said they never thought it would be a speedy process.

 

“We want to deliver the housing as much as the city wants to deliver the housing, the fact of the matter is that in Aspen that takes some time,” said Bradshaw.

Bradshaw and his team also presented public feedback gathered from open houses earlier this year. He said, as with any new construction he’s worked on, the neighbors are the most vocal critics, but that the community as a whole supports new, high density workforce housing within city limits.

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