It's about time

That area by East High School and the Bluebird is turning in to a really cool neighborhood. This plan should help extend it:

"Main Street" plan for Colfax stepping out

By George Merritt Denver Post Staff Writer

'Storefront windows, not parking lots, will line East Colfax Avenue in the coming decades if the Denver City Council approves a massive zoning change later this month.

A City Council subcommittee Wednesday forwarded a plan that would be Denver's first large-scale use of Main Street zoning. The plan is scheduled for consideration by the full City Council on March 20.

Encompassing just shy of 300 properties along the stretch of Colfax from Colorado Boulevard to downtown, the move would be the largest rezoning since the 1950s.

The plan is an attempt to revamp an outdated zoning code along a street that Denver planners have long wished to revitalize. Robb and Councilwoman Elbra Wedgeworth have spent so much time getting property owners and residents in the area to sign on to the plan that Wedgeworth joked during the meeting that the two could now finish eachother's sentences.

The premise of Main Street zoning is to create a more pedestrian-friendly environment. There are requirements for storefronts to be along the sidewalk and have a certain amount of window space. Parking lots are supposed to be in back.'



Photo from Denver Public Library