The Denver City Council approved a long-debated affordable housing strategy plan Tuesday, but lingering disagreements over its details will influence budget debates in coming years.

Setting its sights on the next five years, the plan — called “Housing an Inclusive Denver” — expands on existing approaches and lays out potential new strategies to spend a new $150 million local housing fund that will be raised over the course of a decade via property taxes and development impact fees. That money is on top of longstanding, but dwindling, streams from federal programs and other sources that, combined with the fund, will provide a total of $31.3 million this year.

But key decisions will be made through annual housing action plans, which the council doesn’t approve but can influence, and the city budget, which faces final council approval. Those will give council members outlets to apply pressure if they disagree with Mayor Michael Hancock’s administration on the proper programs to fund.

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Colorado’s House of Representatives is gearing up for a dog fight as it tackles a bill to prohibit community associations from banning dogs based on their size or breed.

“People with big dogs are having a hard time finding a place to live,” said Rep. Paul Rosenthal, D-Denver/Arapahoe, explaining why he drafted the legislation, scheduled for a floor debate Wednesday.

The bill summary, only two sentences long, “invalidates any covenant that prohibits the keeping of certain types of dogs based solely on a breed, weight, or size classification.”

Community rules on nuisance barking, the disposal of waste and the number of dogs allowed per household would remain valid. Municipal rules barring vicious breeds, primarily pit bulls, aren’t impacted.

Rosenthal said he ran into a problem with housing several years back when his brother went on military deployment and he had to watch his dog, a Samoyed and Golden Retriever mix.

He ran into the issue again when a fellow teacher at his school br..