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Litigation over worker-housing proposed for East Cooper Avenue prompted the project’s developers to postpone Wednesday’s hearing before the Historic Preservation Commission.
The historic miner’s cabin at 1020 E Cooper Ave. in Aspen is involved in two lawsuits pertaining to an affordable housing proposal. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times file photo)
A worker-housing project proposed for an east Aspen neighborhood now has legal hurdles to clear in addition to governmental ones.
An Aspen condominium association and a nonprofit organization filed separate complaints late Friday against the city of Aspen over City Council’s 3-2 decision April 19 to remand an application for a five-unit housing complex back to the Historic Preservation Commission, which originally denied the proposal.
Using attorneys from different Aspen law firms, the plaintiffs Cooper Avenue Victorian Condominium Association Inc. and the group Save Aspen introduced the complaints in Pitkin County District Court. Both lawsuits were filed under Colorado’s Rule 106, which allows citizens to appeal to the courts a governmental body’s decision on land use and development application
Affordable housing developers are appealing the denial of their proposal for the five-unit housing complex at 1020 E. Cooper Ave. in Aspen. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Finding that the Historic Preservation Commission abused its discretion in denying an affordable-housing proposal in an Aspen east end neighborhood, Aspen City Council on Monday voted to remand the project back to the citizen volunteer board to conduct a fair and legal review of the land-use application.
After reviewing the record of the HPC’s Feb. 17 meeting, council members in a special meeting Monday were unanimous that commissioners abused their discretion by using subjective and prejudicial factors outside of their purview, and therefore reversed the commission’s decision.
Affordable housing developers are appealing the denial of their proposal for the five-unit housing complex at 1020 E Cooper Ave. in Aspen. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
The developers of a proposed affordable housing project are appealing last month’s denial of their proposal by the city of Aspen’s Historic Preservation Commission.
The appeal filed by Jim DeFrancia and Jean Coulter to the city means that the HPC’s Feb. 17 meeting will be reviewed by City Council, which could overturn the 3-1 vote to reject the proposal.
After listening to hours of public comment mostly from neighbors who oppose the project at two public hearings in January and February, HPC members denied the five-unit housing complex located at 1020 E. Cooper Ave. citing that it was too dense.