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Department of Community Development
Reference: Residential Growth Pacing Repeal
To: Mayor Richard N. McLean and Members of City Council
Through: Clint Blackhurst, Acting City Manager
Prepared By: Aja Tibbs, Long Range and Historic Preservation Planner
Date Prepared: February 7, 2017
PURPOSE
To amend the Land Use and Development Code in order to remove Article 17-60, Residential Growth Pacing System, from the Brighton Municipal Code.
BACKGROUND
The Residential Growth Pacing Ordinance (Ordinance 1620 as amended), typically referred to as "Pacing," has been in place since the spring of 2000. At that time, Brighton had experienced rapid residential growth, there was unrest among some in the community who had indicated an intent to initiate a restriction on development, and the City Council decided to implement its own regulating ordinance. The purpose of the ordinance was to: 1) promote orderly growth and provide for harmonious development; 2) facilitate adequate provision of utilities and public facilities such as transportation, water, sewer, drainage, parks and open space, schools, libraries, and other public facilities; 3) promote a more balanced community where there is space to live, recreate and work; and 4) ensure that the community character was not eroded.
Part of the required processes in the ordinance is a requirement that the City Council, on an annual basis at the end of each year, establish the number of units to be allocated in the following year. In December of 2004, the City Council suspended setting that number for 2005 and has continued to suspend that requirement of the ordinance each year thereafter, based on its findings that there are adequate infrastructure and services available in Brighton, and based on the lessening demand for new housing. Changes in the development environment, and updates to the Land Use Code and land use review procedures has left the pacing Ordinance with little impact and, in some circumstances, inequit...
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