AURORA | Affordable housing will be a major theme at Monday’s Aurora City Council meeting.
Council members are expected to finalize a 10-month moratorium for applications seeking to rezone, and ultimately redevelop, mobile home parks in the city. The moratorium will be accompanied by the creation of a task force to study the issue.
Council members unanimously gave an initial approval last month.
The body is also expected to take up a resolution urging state lawmakers to address affordable housing through construction defects, which was a major issue in last year’s session. The resolution, carried by councilman Bob Roth, asks the legislature to establish a law that requires all alleged defect claims go through arbitration before litigation.
“State laws, however, that have made it too easy for the majority of a homeowners’ association board to pursue construction defect litigation have driven up the costs of insurance coverage for condominium and townhouse projects,” the resolutions says.
Those types of housing are often the most affordable options for homebuyers, and largely missing from Aurora’s market.
Last year, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed House Bill 1279, which requires the majority of condo or townhome complex to agree to legal action rather than just a majority of the HOA board when it comes to faulty construction.
That legislation was regarded as a first step in confronting issues with construction defects. Aspects, such as arbitration, were not addressed under HB1279.
— KARA MASON, Staff Writer