Proposed Denver Zoning Code Text
Amendment #6 and Map Amendment
Pena Station Next Design Overlay and
Denver International Airport Signage
2/1/16 Public Review Draft Summary
Table of Contents
This document contains:
• Ordinance sponsor and community partners
• Summary of the process for the text and
map amendment
• Purpose of this amendment
• Summary of the proposed changes
Sponsor & Community Partners
• Amendments are sponsored by the
Department of Aviation and the Department
of Community Planning and Development
• Developed in cooperation with property
owners in the 61st and Pena station area
Text & Map Amendment Process
(all dates tentative)
• Summary Review with INC ZAP: Dec. 5th
• Public Review Redline Draft posted to CPD
website and informational notice sent to
RNOs: Feb. 1st
• Planning Board Public Hearing: Mar. 2nd
– Notification to RNOs and City Council 15 days prior to
public hearing
– Planning Board Draft of text amendment and staff report
– Public hearing and Planning Board recommendation
Text & Map Amendment Process
(all dates tentative)
• City Council Neighborhoods and Planning
Committee meeting – March 16th
– Notification to RNOs 15 days prior to meeting
• City Council First Reading
• City Council Public Hearing – April 25th
– Notification to RNOs 21 days prior to public hearing
– Public Hearing and decision by City Council
Purpose of Text and
Map Amendment
• Clarify the Manager of Aviation’s authority to
regulate signs in the DIA zone district, enabling
new iconic signage on airport property east of
E-470
• Establish a new design overlay (DO-6), to enable
innovative signage and illumination in the Peña
& 61st Transit-Oriented Development area
• Implement adopted plan goals and objectives
from Comprehensive Plan 2000, Blueprint
Denver, and 61st and Pena Station Area Plan
Summary of Proposed
Text Amendment - Part 1
Purpose: Clarify the Manager of Aviation’s existing authority to
regulate signs in the DIA zone district.
• DIA Zone District only
applies to property
owned by Denver
International Airport.
• Pena Blvd. west of
Himalaya St. (just
west of E-470) is
subject to scenic
buffer restrictions
under the Airport IGA.
Summary of Proposed
Text Amendment - Part 1
Current Code:
• Section 9.5.2, Denver International Airport Zone District
(DIA), states, “The Denver Manager of Aviation shall
determine all design and development standards applicable
to new development in the DIA zone district.”
• Division 10.10, Signs, sets forth standards for signs in the
DIA zone district, even though the Manager of Aviation has
authority to determine standards in the DIA zone district.
Proposed Code:
• Remove DIA sign standards from Division 10.10, Signs, to
be consistent with Section 9.5.2.
Summary of Proposed
Text Amendment - Part 2
Purpose: Establish a new design overlay (DO-6), to enable
innovative signage and illumination in the Peña & 61st TransitOriented Development area
Summary of Proposed
Text Amendment - Part 2
• Add a new design overlay (DO-6) to the Denver Zoning Code
Summary of Proposed
Text Amendment - Part 2
• Follows the model of the existing D-TD Downtown Theater
District zoning:
– Typical signage must follow the sign standards already in the Denver
Zoning Code
– Signage which exceeds the code requirements will first require a
district sign plan
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Flashing and animation
Illumination
Number, height, area, type
Off-site contents
– District sign plan must demonstrate qualities such as creativity,
design quality, and comprehensiveness in addressing signage
– District sign plan must be approved by Planning Board
Summary of Proposed
Text Amendment - Part 2
• Design Overlay 6 (DO-6) will only be available in the 61st &
Pena Station Area (cannot be mapped elsewhere).
• Most of the area is currently zoned under Former Chapter
59. The overlay district does not apply until property
owners rezone into the Denver Zoning Code.
• Overlay district approach will allow the district to be
consistently mapped across multiple base zone districts in
the entire station area.
Proposed Map Amendment
for DO-6
DO-6
New
61st & Pena
Station
56th Avenue
Tower Road
Pena Boulevard
64th Avenue
For More Information
Contact Kyle Dalton, AICP, Principal City
Planner:
[email protected]
Visit our website at
www.DenverGov.org/TextAmendments