Planning Board Public Hearing set for next week
After three years of work and input by thousands of residents, neighborhood groups, local business owners and community leaders, the draft East Central Area Plan is entering its final phase of review, with hearings at the Denver Planning Board next week and City Council later this fall. The hearings follow review of the draft by community members, who provided more than 10,000 comments over three years of collaboration, including 3,000 comments on the draft plans, helping refine and strengthen the vision for these neighborhoods.
Community Planning and Development is grateful to everyone who participated: those who wrote letters, who read through each page of each version of the draft plan, who participated in spirited conversations, who shared a flier with a neighbor or who answered that first three-question kick-off survey way back in 2017. We couldn’t have done it without you!
The plan addresses key neighborhood needs—supporting the local economy, housing affordability and services, safer streets, historic preservation and quality design, and the impacts of climate change—by providing policy recommendations that will guide city decision-making over the next 20 years. Download the latest draft of the plan, which is the draft Planning Board members will consider.