CITY OF OURAY

The Ouray City Council is pushing ahead with a plan to ask voters this fall to approve a tax to help fund affordable housing, even as some citizens are urging it to slow down.

Councilors informally agreed Monday to hold a special session on Aug. 1 to work on crafting language for a ballot measure that would impose a new tax on the owners of short-term rental units.

There is a lot for the council to work through — and not much time in which to make those decisions, with Sept. 6 being...