Housing in Avon
Finding affordable housing in Avon and the Vail Valley can be a challenge, but the Town of Avon and Eagle County have several resources available to help residents and those wishing to move to Avon find affordable housing.
Resources Available
- Eagle County Housing Program – includes housing information for affordable rentals as well as affordable for purchase options.
- Avon Deed Restricted Units – The Town of Avon manages operates and maintains a deed restricted housing program for approximately 100 units within the Town of Avon. There are currently no units available for sale. For more information on this program, please contact Matt Pielsticker.
For more information on housing issues in Avon, you may read our Avon Housing Needs Assessment done in 2006. Town Council is currently using this document to develop Attainable Housing Guidelines for the Town of Avon.
Attainable Housing Goals Update
On March 25, 2008, the Avon Town Council unanimously approved
Resolution No. 08-08, a Resolution to amend Topic
Area F, Housing, of the 2006 Town of Avon
Comprehensive Plan (pages 52-55).
The
amendment modifies the language of the goals and policies contained within the
Housing Topic Area in order to provide acceptable methods of mitigating the
need for attainable housing generated by development. The additional detail added to the Comp Plan includes:
- references to calculations for Residential and Commercial Linkage tied to new
development applications for rezoning,
- acceptable methods of attainable housing
mitigation, and
- provides Council the discretion to implement mitigation rates
on a project-by-project basis.
The
purpose behind this approach is to ensure that attainable housing mitigation is
applied to the highest extent possible and is derived with full consideration
of all other public benefits provided by any proposal found to be subject to
the criteria for a rezoning or PUD application.
An edited version of the Housing Goals and Policies section and an updated version of the entire Comprehensive Plan are available . Please contact the Planning Department if you have any questions regarding this this amendment or Avon's Attainable Housing Policies.
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