Commissioners shelve property development rule edits

speak against the proposal, along with dozens of other comments the county received from residents in April, the group of Douglas County residents who advise the county’s elected leaders on development — the county Planning Commission — on April 17 voted 5-1 against the language changes.

e planning commissioners serve as an advisory group, and the county’s board of three elected commissioners — George Teal, omas and Abe Laydon — generally make the nal call on development decisions in areas outside of municipalities.

e county heard concerns that the change “would make the process for someone to amend a planned development much easier or to get a development of a di erent type approved much easier — that it would be a signi cant thing,” Steven Koster, assistant director of planning services for Douglas County, has told Colorado Community Media. “And I’m not sure exactly how that understanding came to be.” government’s rules for what can be built where.)

After hearing more than a dozen e county commissioners on May 9 voted to “table” the plan, and county sta indicated that a

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