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Planning Phase
Department:
Planning Department
Planning and Development Department
November 2024
  • Community engagement/gathering input
December 2024
  • City Planning Commission Hearing
January/February 2025
  • City Council Hearings
June 2025
  • Implementation

On April 8, 2025 Colorado Springs City Council voted to update the code for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). Click here for more information on the new regulations for ADUs. 

 

Overview

The City of Colorado Springs’ Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Ordinance is part of the city’s effort to ensure smart, equitable, and diversified housing solutions that allow our neighborhoods to grow in a way that is appropriate. Recent state legislation requires the City to allow ADUs in any location where a single-family detached home is permitted, and prevents the City from enacting or enforcing certain local laws that would restrict ADUs. As such, the City’s ADU Ordinance proposes updates to the Unified Development Code (UDC) based on state-mandated legislation as well as to support the citywide strategic priorities of housing availability and choice for city residents.

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