Denver’s Department of Housing Stability (“HOST”) and Denver Housing Authority (“DHA”) are partnering to pilot a program aimed at spurring development of middle-income housing. As reported in the Denver Post, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has described the pilot program as a way for the city to promote the development of housing
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Governor and Municipalities in Dispute over Implementation of Strategic Growth Legislation
By Jessie Fischer on
On May 16, 2025, Governor Jared Polis signed Executive Order D 2025 005 (“Order 005”) to address implementation of recently-passed strategic growth legislation. As discussed below, Governor Polis has ordered certain state agencies to consider whether municipalities are compliant with the requirements of seven laws when awarding millions of dollars of discretionary funding. Three days after…
Denver Proposes to Eliminate All Minimum Vehicle Parking Requirements
By Lindsay Lyda & Alyssa Knutson on
Posted in Commercial Real Estate, Land Use
The City of Denver (“Denver”) released the first draft of its proposed amendment to the Denver Zoning Code (“Zoning Code”) known as Modernizing Parking Requirements Text Amendment (“Text Amendment”), in which it proposes removing minimum vehicle parking requirements for all land uses throughout Denver. This Text Amendment comes as…
City Council Approves Chaffee Park Rezoning
By Lindsay Lyda on
This week, the Denver City Council unanimously approved the rezoning of the entire Chaffee Park neighborhood to allow accessory dwelling units within the neighborhood. The approval will provide additional housing options in Denver and likely paves the way for similar rezonings.
Denver to Take More Nuanced Approach to Growth Planning
By Andrew L.W. Peters on
For more than 15 years, Denver’s comprehensive plan, “Blueprint Denver,” has taken a binary view of neighborhood change—either a neighborhood should expect to change, or it shouldn’t—but it’s looking as though that practice might soon end. The current system, under which every City lot lies within an “area of stability” or an “area of change,” now seems likely to disappear in favor of a four-tiered categorization developing as part of the “Denveright” long-range planning process.
A bit of background: under Blueprint Denver, the City aims to funnel development into “areas of change” that comprise roughly one fifth of Denver’s land area. The plan’s complementary goal is in turn to limit growth in “areas of stability” that cover the balance. Denver development pressure has to some extent followed that vision crafted in 2002, especially as new projects have advanced along
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