[bcp]

that RNO committee membership sounds like the worst possible thing based on the language in that article...even citing building height as the key variable for density is quite ridiculous...the city already has a context-driven zoning code...

"The document also says that higher density zoning should not be approved unless it can be shown that it will not have an adverse impact on traffic or parking, unless they can be mitigate."

so....that's a nebulous statement...how is "adverse impact" defined? are people expecting traffic to never increase? gotcha - every new-comer should live in the ever-expanding suburbs so that denver never becomes a real city. if a project increases traffic (which they will, there is barely any traffic already!)...what's a developer to do?
- build your own BRT
- build new roads
- build an express on-ramp from your project to the highway
- build tons of off-street parking that isn't needed in most neighborhoods..affordability be damned (but you WILL hear this committee say that workforce housing is important to them...)

this was my favorite part:

"Traffic and parking impacts can cause serious harm to the quality of life and economic vitality in neighborhoods,”

got it...so we are making sure we design neighborhoods where parking (not people or affordability or walkability) take precedence...this is a BS move for the status quo, low density, "i want to find parking everywhere i go"-crowd...it also sounds like a way to walk-back the importance and value of "areas of change"...i really hope this fails.


what's the solution here? SSP folks need to join their RNO and sure to be the person representing.