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Elect Rob Masden
• I have extensive background of Leadership roles and public service
• Small business owner for over twenty years
• Mayor Town of Hudson eight years
• Weld County Council two years
• RE3-J School Board of Directors four years
• Weld County Commissioner eight years
• State of Colorado Energy and Mineral Impact Committee Appointee by both Governor Owen and Ritter nine years
• My commitment to you is to maintain excellent and reliable service, a ordable rates and accountability advice about cooking, shopping or the nearby school district,” Dalzell. “ at’s the relationship we want with our clients when facing a very challenging point in their lives with housing instability.” e current development also has a playground, part of the list of services they o er for young families.
“We are also involved in the school district, help with teen skills, job skills or cleaning the apartment, and how to take care of shopping lists that lead to good meal prep for the family and the kids,” Dalzell.
Tiny home planning ey have also talked with Adams
Dalzell said their rst tiny home was nished last year in June. It’s currently on display in their parking lot but is ready to go, with bathroom and kitchen facilities ready for hookup. She said they hope to add nine more and move the bunch to the nearby lot.

“We’re hoping that by having this model in Commerce City, we can show them how this really can work and that we’re invested and want to make the long-term connections,” Dalzell said.
County about the property and the group’s vision, with an eye on future
“We are trying to gure out which communities in Adams County are tiny home friendly and who wasn’t as far as the jurisdiction and trying to understand the complexities of this eir demonstration home has its own plumbing built-in, which makes it quite di erent from the housing offered by other housing groups.
“ e tiny home will come to us already built,” she said. “We don’t touch anything regarding building a tiny home. We have to gure out how
Dalzell said her group had toured tiny home developments around the area to see how they operated. A Denver-based development, for example, is located on land leased from Denver County. ose developments will have to move their homes every couple of years, when their leases
“We don’t want to do that, because we’re going to make an investment and land preparation, she said. “We’d rather buy it outright than have
“After many conversations, looking at land, we returned to this empty lot next to us here in Commerce City. We know Commerce City plans has its vision of what homelessness support or sheltering might look like. So it brought us back to our backyard,” Dalzell said.
Dalzell said that so far both Adams County and Commerce City are supportive. ere are still plenty of details to be settled, however.
“Sometimes they don’t have the answers to our questions but they invite us to the table to talk,” she said. “So far, they support Access Housing’s vision with the village concept.”
Struggling with unknowns
Dalzell said many municipalities struggle with the unknowns regarding a village of tiny homes.
Dalzell said Commerce City has asked questions about potential zoning for the tiny home village and about the building details – whether the development should be zoned as an RV or a mobile home park, for example. e city needs clari cation,