Shhh... quiet please
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Originally Posted by jhwk
Very nice.
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Hold on thar, pardner. Denver City Council has been secretly, quietly getting ready to declare a construction moratorium.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...rom-developers
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DENVER -- Denver city council members are looking at a zoning change to better manage the city's growth.
More than 14 new developments, from I-70 to Brighton Blvd. to the Old Gates Rubber Plant on South Broadway, are coming soon to booming Denver.
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Well, Denver's growing and this is a good thing, no?
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"And this isn't the entirety of them," explained City Councilwoman At-Large Debbie Ortega. The over 500 acres of undeveloped land is all scheduled to go vertical, which will add more people and more cars to Denver's already jam-packed streets.
"Crossing over Broadway, Santa Fe, using Alameda, is a nightmare now and it's only going to get worse because there's no place to expand those roads," said neighbor Scott Bolt, who ran the Ruby-Hill-Godsman Neighborhood Association for nearly a decade.
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Here it comes, the DCC brigade.
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Ortega said she believes it's time to take a pause... "it is irresponsible to continue to approve massive rezoning without a hard look at the cumulative impacts."
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A zoning change, eh?
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Ortega wants to change what developers have to bring to the table in order to get a project rezoned through council.
While you would think a developer would have to do a traffic study before adding hundreds of units on a one-way street, or bring a rendering of the project and general idea of the number of parking spaces, Ortega said that's no longer the case following a zoning change in 2010.
"Under the form-based zoning we get none of that," she said. Ortega is now looking at a zoning change to make some of that criteria mandatory in an effort to give council a clearer picture of a project before it gets approved.
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This sounds serious?
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"If we're not thoughtful and intentional, we have the potential to lose what is great about Denver," said Ortega.
Ortega said the ordinance is still in the very early stages, and she wants to bring attention to the magnitude of proposed developments that have the potential to forever change the city.
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