Unlocking Housing Choices

Community Planning and Development has launched an inclusive community process with the goal of allowing more middle housing forms in Denver’s residential neighborhoods through potential updates to the Denver Zoning Code and other city rules and regulations. The project is focusing on this goal while working to preserve existing affordability and ensure that new development adds more attainable housing stock.

Middle housing refers to small multi-unit structures like duplexes, tandem houses, fourplexes and other house-scaled, middle housing building forms. The changes to the zoning regulations will focus on low- and medium-residential zone districts ranging from single-unit (SU) to rowhouse (RH), and the comparable Former Chapter 59 zone districts.

Project Goals

• Allow more housing choices in Denver's residential neighborhoods

• Update design requirements for middle housing building forms so that new construction is compatible with existing neighborhoods and recommendations in adopted plans

• Encourage the preservation of existing homes

• Create incentives or requirements for affordable housing in newly constructed middle housing.

Project website: www.denvergov.org/housingchoices