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Planning for Housing and Community Development
This post comes from Stephanie O’Hara, Planner Analyst for EVstudio. Immediately prior to joining EVstudio she worked for Jefferson County, Colorado for 6 years in various planning roles. EVstudio looks for planning opportunities in both the public and private sector: While working at Jefferson County I developed the 2005-2010 Consolidated Plan which is a strategy [...]
Jefferson County Height Restriction
Jefferson County, Colorado has changed the way that they look at building height effective May 20th, 2008. This is the first change in this definition since 2002. Its a little hard to explain so hopefully I’m allowed to post this graphic from the Zoning Resolution. This particular definition is fairly unique and illustrates why we [...]
Gateway Trail from Evergreen Lake to Downtown Evergreen Proposed to Jefferson County Open Space
HERO, the Heart of Evergreen Revitilization Organization, met again last week and had the opportunity to review a plan that was being proposed by Rocky Graziano, an active local resident in support of the downtown Evergreen trail efforts. The focus of this project is to provide an accessible connection from the existing lake trail loop [...]
Jefferson County Open Space Plan for Downtown Evergreen Colorado
I have had the pleasure of being a member of the Evergreen Downtown Business Association as long as EVstudio has been in Downtown Evergreen, and I am currently on a special committee specifically organized for community revitalization. The committee is the “Heart of Evergreen Revitalization Organization”, or H.E.R.O. for short. We’ve only recently formed, and the positive response [...]
Jefferson County Code Supplement Deletes 2009 Residential Fire Sprinkling Requirements
Although Jefferson County has been one of the first counties in the state to adopt the 2009 International Codes, the 2009 Jefferson County Residential Code Supplement states that Section 313 for Automatic Fire Sprinkler Systems has been “deleted in it’s entirety” from their adoption of the new code. Although Automatic Fire Sprinkler Systems are often [...]
Blue Spruce Habitat Formwork and Rebar
Dean and Elicia met with Phil Miller from Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity this morning to inspect the formwork & rebar for the footings at the site in Kittredge. Other than a slight dusting of snow, everything looked great! In addition, Phil commented that “this was the fastest set of plans that they have ever [...]
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