YVHA's Housing Focus Team Update April 2022 https://brownranchsteamboat.org/

Greetings! As we mentioned last week in our newsletter, our Focus Teams on Housing Demand, Infrastructure, Urban Design, Natural and Built Sustainability, Project Economics and Health Equity finished their community meetings.  As we review their findings and incorporate them into our draft designs, we want to share some information with you. Each team created guiding principles to help us develop a draft community plan that reflects the community’s vision.  The challenge we face is incorporating every principle, there will be compromises. However, our guiding principle remains strong and is in our vision:  “The Brown Ranch residents will live and connect in a vibrant, resilient, diverse, and welcoming neighborhood that provides a wide variety of housing options and services designed by and for the Yampa Valley community.” This week, we bring you the principles of the Housing Demand Focus Team. We will continue to send updates for you to participate in the process of creating the Brown Ranch. Sincerely, Jason Peasley and Sheila Henderson

Our Vision

“The Brown Ranch residents will live and connect in a vibrant, resilient, diverse, and welcoming neighborhood that provides a wide variety of housing options and services designed by and for the Yampa Valley community.”

Our Guiding Principles

● The Brown Ranch will provide affordable and attainable housing options for the Routt County workforce* in a timely and efficient manner that meets both the urgent and long-term need. ● The Brown Ranch will provide quality housing that is sustainable yet flexible, modern, efficient, safe, healthy, environmentally responsible, and in harmony with existing natural systems. ● The Brown Ranch will be both physically and emotionally connected to the community, providing opportunity for social cohesion and successful vibrant and healthy lifestyles. ● The community driven process to design and develop the Brown Ranch will be inclusive, fact-based, honest, cost efficient and collaborative with all relevant stakeholders.

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Housing and Non-Residential Demand Focus Team Principles

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Based on the numerous community meetings the Housing and Non-Residential Demand Focus Team developed these principles in the following areas: attainable, diverse, appropriate, sizable, timely. Attainable: Cater to local income levels to meet the community need No short-term rentals, foster community, make housing available for full-time locals Ensure rents and mortgages are affordable so residents aren't cost-burdened Diverse: Offer a range of housing options so that there is room for mobility Keep residents from "missing out" on the benefits of home ownership Housing for first-time homeowners, aging residents, growing families, etc. Appropriate: Reserve for local employees, not those who work remotely Ensure unit sizes are able to comfortably serve the local workforce demand Sizeable: Deliver enough homes to begin addressing the urgent need Plan future phases to accommodate additional growth addressing long-term expansion of the community Timely: Work within the bounds of local processes for provide quality housing as quickly as possible given the depth of demand in the community today

Steering Committee

A team of 20 community members tasked with creating an overall vision along with the main priorities that will guide development through the coming decades. The community members are: Andrew Beckler Anne Warhover Cecilia Escobar Ed MacArthur Erin Miller Gates Gooding Genevieve Kalmes Kimball Crangle Kristin Brown Wilson Lina Grant Marsha Daugenbaugh Megan Moore-Kemp Patrick Phillips Patrick Staib Roger Ashton Sarah Jones Tatum Health Tim Wohlgenant Vanessa Avitia Webster Jones Learn More

Brown Ranch Planning Team

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An affordable housing development for the Yampa Valley

Yampa Valley Housing Authority

For inquiries Email: info@brownranchsteamboat.org

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