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Board approves housing project
This aerial photo and rendering shows the location of the proposed Waterview affordable housing development in north Ouray. The gray roofs in the middle of the bottom of the photo are the former Biota building. The housing project would be located to the north. Image courtesy Rural Homes
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By Liz Teitz, on January 11, 2023
Board approves housing project

The Ouray Planning Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the sketch plan for the Waterview Planned Unit Development, an affordable housing development with up to 70 homes on the north end of the city.

Rural Homes, a nonprofit project initially launched by the Telluride Foundation in 2021, plans to build the neighborhood on a nine-acre parcel north of the former Biota building, between the Uncompahgre River and Highway 550.

The sketch plan proposed 65 to 70 units, in a mix of single homes...

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