Department of local affairs collaboration - goals - transit-oriented community authority

(1) As determined to be appropriate by the executive director of the department, the department shall collaborate with the department of transportation and the Colorado energy office in fulfilling the requirements and goals of this part 2. (2) The goals of this part 2 are to: (a) Increase opportunities to construct housing near transit in order to provide benefits including regulated affordable housing, accessible housing, regional equity through a balance of jobs and housing, improved and expanded transit service, and multimodal access to daily needs within mixed-use pedestrian-oriented neighborhoods; and (b) Increase opportunities for housing production by providing appropriate zoning capacity buffers. (3) Nothing in this part 2 prevents a transit-oriented community, or other relevant entity, from: (a) Enforcing infrastructure standards in local law that result in the denial or conditioning of permits or approvals for specific housing projects in a transit center, including but not limited to utilities, transportation, or public works codes or standards; (b) Adopting generally applicable requirements for the payment of impact fees or other similar development charges, in accordance with section 29-20-104.5, or the mitigation of impacts in accordance with part 2 of article 20 of this title 29; (c) Approving a development application at a lower net housing density than the maximum allowed net housing density; (d) Allowing a high amount of zoning capacity in one transit area, while allowing a very low amount of or no zoning capacity in another transit area; (e) Implementing discretionary approval processes for subdivisions, rezonings, variances, or other processes in transit centers outside of project-specific zoning standards; (f) Creating an optional discretionary review process that may approve greater density or other more permissive standards than the objective standards subject to administrative approval in a transit center; (g) Creating a discretionary review process in transit centers that is available at the applicant's option and is subject to criteria consistent with the purposes of this part 2 as established in subsection (2) of this section, including processes such as planned unit developments; (h) Not publicly disclosing any confidential information related to water supplies or facilities; (i) Allowing commercial uses, business uses, or mixed-use development on a parcel in a designated transit center; and (j) Denying or conditioning development projects or building permit approvals for a failure to meet the requirements of a traffic study that is conducted using objective standards.