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Zoning Code Task Force
In January 2005, the team to fix Denver's 52-year-old zoning code came together.  As a first step, Mayor John Hickenlooper appointed a community-based Zoning Code Task Force (ZCTF) to oversee the multi-year effort.  The 16 ZCTF members are neighborhood, business, and real-estate development representatives who have committed countless hours to this process.  Learn more here!
 
Community participation is a cornerstone of this project.  The ZCTF conducted public listening sessions at the project outset, examined various zoning strategies, and recommended a preferred approach to the new code.  Learn more here!
 
Where We've Been
Phase 1:  Analysis and Problem Definition - January 2005 to August 2006
  • ZCTF and CAG were appointed
  • Zoning 101 for ZCTF and public during 2005
  • Public listening sessions and focus groups
  • Diagnostic Report
  • Problem Statements
  • Public involvement:  ZCTF meetings; public work sessions; on-going presentations to INC (Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation), Board of Realtor's, RNOs (Registered Neighborhood Organizations), and other organizations/groups

Phase 2:  Alternative Approaches - August 2006 to September 2007

  • Explored context-sensitive and form-based approach to zoning
  • Public work sessions - introduce and refine residential neighborhood "typologies"
  • Annotated Outline of the New Code
  • Summer 2007:  Five community meetings on preferred approach
  • Public involvement:  ZCTF meetings; public work sessions; on-going presentations to INC, Board of Realtors, RNOs, and other organizations/groups

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Frequently Asked Questions

 
Adopted plans express the community vision and zoning is the legal means of implementing adopted plans. The Zoning Code Update seeks to bridge the gap that exists between current zoning and recently adopted plans such as Blueprint Denver.
 
Denver citizens called for reform of the City’s Zoning Code in the 1989 Comprehensive Plan. This message was repeated in the Denver Comprehensive Plan 2000.  Blueprint Denver (2002) provided the vision and initial strategy to begin this effort.
 
The complexity of the current zoning code makes it difficult for property owners to easily identify what is allowed to be built on a given property. That complexity can make doing quality development more difficult and raises the cost of doing business in Denver by requiring lengthy study of our unique and cumbersome zoning code.
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Zoning Code Task Force Meeting Schedule 

Regular Meeting Schedule
2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month
4 pm to 5:30 pm
Room 4F6   
4th Floor, Webb Municipal Building
201 W. Colfax Ave
Denver, CO 80202
 
Meeting Dates and Agendas
January 14, 2008
December 24, 2008: No Meeting
December 10, 2008:  Regular time and place - Agenda
November 26, 2008: No Meeting
November 12, 2008: Agenda
 
 
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