Council to take final vote Monday on north Cheyenne affordable apartments | Local News
CHEYENNE – It has been a tumultuous couple of months for a tidy suburban neighborhood in north Cheyenne . Residents of The Bluffs started hearing about the affordable apartment complex planned for their western border near Converse Avenue in mid-spring. They got a presentation from Summit Housing Group at Anderson Elementary School , which sits in the northwest corner of the neighborhood, not long afterward. By most accounts, things became heated pretty quickly . “We tried to explain the project to community,” Summit senior project manager Sam Lang said. “But they just said, ‘We don’t want this.’” A similarly passionate Cheyenne Planning Commission meeting followed July 5. Commissioners’ attempts to explain their reasoning for recommending approval of rezoning and the importance of having affordable housing in the community came off to many in the crowd of Bluffs neighbors as politically correct nonsense . Similar concerns persisted in City Council committee meetings , though t...