University Park

ABOUT THE UP WORKSHOP

Apr 18, 2001

UP AREA WORKSHOP...

This important event will be held June 6. Its goal is to identify ways to help neigh- borhoods such as UP keep their character during change. It is part of a big Denver study and you are ALL urged to attend. The UP area between Buchtel & I-25 (?“ECHO?”) is an integral part of this study.
The area we include in this workshop is UP plus the DU campus & parking lots, and the sites of the two light rail stations that will serve UP-- from S. Franklin to S. Birch, I-25 (Louisiana W. of S. Univ. Blvd.) to Yale/Harvard Gulch.
This is an extremely varied and interesting area, which presents elements found in many neighborhoods, thus can be a source of prototypes. We?’ve talked about the LUTP, the Land Use and Transportation Plan that Denver is doing, for ten
months. The decision was made in March to study in ?“workshop?” format six neighborhoods of change and two of stability. The vote for a ?“committed stable neighborhood?” went to UP area. (Committed means we want to maintain our neighborhood character. Elyria-Swansea was selected as the ?“reinvest- ment stable neighborhood?” for study, looking for a change.)
UP is represented on the LUTP study by Carolyn Etter, who will help the team plan the workshop. She hopes to have date, time & place info by the May 2 meeting.
We also will have a new City Councilperson by the time of the workshop-- a great introduction to the LUTP and this ?“area?” of District 6. The LUTP will not be done until later this year. However, the Planning Office hopes to have some
regulatory modifi- cations to alleviate scrape-off and other zoning concerns before the entire Plan is done.