Aspen’s elected officials decided Monday to do away with a lodge incentive in the land-use code that allows developers to provide fewer affordable-housing units if their project utilizes land efficiently and provides rooms under 600 square feet.
The lodge unit density and size incentive currently allows required mitigation to be reduced from 65% to low as 10% in some circumstances.
It was added to the code in 2007 when Aspen City Council was attempting to address the loss of lodge rooms and encouraging more lodging development, since many of Aspen’s post-war era ski lodges had been redeveloped into more expensive accommodations, second homes, or affordable housing.