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Panel Discussions

Navigating Politics to Advance Planning

Local Programming: Navigating a Housing Focused Development Code Update

Monday, March 31, 2025
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM MT
Location: Mile High Ballroom 3
CM: .75
Division Endorsement: Housing and Community Development Division
Planners and leaders across the country continue to navigate the politically charged topics of housing affordability and housing choice. In many communities, the opposition to any type of change can cause development code updates to be nonstarters.

The City of Englewood, Colorado, successfully added incremental levels of density to its new development code through a lengthy public engagement process and strategic code design and adaptation. A City Council steering committee was tasked with prioritizing the city’s development needs. The project team explains how success was achieved.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn the approach Englewood, Colorado, took to incorporate incremental levels of density as a built-out community.
  • Explore the methods used to address and overcome the intensive challenges that were associated with a development code rewrite that increased density.
  • Gain practical advice for approaches to development code changes that increase density in communities that have traditionally opposed change.