The Community Planning and Housing Committee of the Denver City Council met on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 1:30 PM MDT. The committee considered three action items: two rezoning applications and one historic landmark designation. All three items were approved unanimously by the committee for recommendation to the full City Council. No consent calendar items were discussed.
Note: The meeting started at 1:30 PM MDT and ended at approximately 3:00 PM MDT.
Please. Why I need to know. There it is. We're on air. All right. Welcome to the community planning and housing committee of Denver City Council. We're feeling a little punchy today in the room. It is Tuesday, May 12th, 2026 at 1.30 p.m. We'll start with introductions. I'm Sarah Parity, counselor at large and chair of the committee, and I'll go to my left. Wow. Alright, and we have to sawyer, district five. I don't want to find District 9. Jamie Torres. Denver District 3. I'm really I'm here. Good afternoon. Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver District 4. That is lucky to strike 7. Great. And I'm pausing in case we have any council members online. We do. Oh, this there she is. Hi, Councilmember Chunk and Liz, District 8. Great. I think that is all of us. And so we have three action items on deck today. So we'll try to keep them to 30 minutes each. Uh, starting with uh Joe from CP from CBD with a rezoning at 831 South Monaco Street. 260608. Hello everyone. My name is Joe Green. Thank you. And as you said, we're looking at a rezoning at 831 South Monaco. We'll run through the request and then provide a little bit more information about the location, go through the process that the application's been through thus far, and then look at the review criteria. So the applicant's requesting to go from SMX3A to SMU3. I have a little more information about the difference between those in a couple slides. The property's just over 7,000 square feet and currently has a single unit house on it. So this is the zoning map. You can see it's SMX3A to the south and across the street, and just to the north is that single or the multi-unit three. The applicant owns kind of the parcel they're requesting to rezone and the parcel just to the north, and they're hoping to combine those parcels and redevelop both. So this is part of the AHART program. They are the units on that northern lot where the multi-unit currently exists. The goal of the applicant is to build 75 units with a mix of AMI from 30 to 60%. And they are applying for low-income housing tax credits later this summer. So the SMX 3 means suburban, mixed use, three stories. The A in this instance denotes design standards that basically encourage pedestrian-oriented environments. That allows a couple different building forms. So getting into the location, this is in Council District 6, but it's just across the street from Council District 5. So then Washington, Virginia Vale neighborhood.