Seth Klamann is a statehouse reporter at the Denver Post, covering policy, state government and the legislature. He previously worked for the Gazette, the Casper Star-Tribune and the Omaha World-Herald. He's a graduate of the University of Missouri and a proud Kansas City native.
Multifamily housing and townhomes were built on the former site of Mt. Gilead Church at 195 S. Monaco Parkway in east Denver, next to Crestmoor Park. After a contentious rezoning fight, the Denver City Council approved denser zoning for the 2.3-acre church site in 2015. The developer built several dozen condominiums, at upper right, and townhouses.
But he said local zoning often prevents houses of worship and educational institutions from building on their own land. He described one church in Fort Collins that waded through nearly a year of delays before it could build the roughly 70 units of housing it had planned. “A lot of congregations in our state that have underutilized land — it’s mostly because at one time they were a lot larger than they are now, and they’re trying to figure out how to make ends meet,” David Runyon said. He’s the director ofReligious groups — and educational institutions — could lease their land, sell it entirely or partner with a housing developer, Boesenecker and Runyon said.
“Churches love this,” he said. “They give services to people in need already: job training, food. It’s just a natural progression to start doing housing. But they don’t have capacity, they don’t know who to trust and there’s not enough money.” “You would think this thing would take off — you have all this land that could be developed. But the same issues you see with affordable housing development in general going to impact the implementation of bill,” he said, referring to limited access to money needed to build and preserve subsidized housing. “You could have all this land available, but if there’s no funding for that affordable housing, it’s not going to get built.
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