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Council adopts plan to reshape downtown

John Rebchook, Rocky Mountain News

Published July 10, 2007 at midnight

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The Denver City Council today unanimously adopted the 2007 Downtown Area Plan, the culmination of an 18-month planning process between the City of Denver and the Downtown Denver Partnership.

The 2007 plan provides an updated vision and set of goals and strategies for the downtown area, with a goal of providing a road map for downtown's future over the next 25 years.

The plan calls for everything from a "green" downtown to linking the Auraria campus to downtown, to creating a one that is more pedestrian friendly.

"With the dramatic changes that downtown has undergone in the last 20 years, it is time that we have a new, 21st century vision for downtown Denver," Tami Door, president & CEO of the Downtown Denver Partnership, wrote on the nonprofit group's Web site today. "The main objective of the 2007 Downtown Area Plan is to keep Downtown Denver vibrant; economically healthy, growing and vital; through a series of strategies that make Downtown prosperous, walkable, diverse, distinctive and green. Now that City Council has adopted the plan, we look forward to working with both the public and private sectors to begin its implementation immediately."

The plan was prepared by Moore Iacofano Goltsman Inc., based in Berkeley, Calif., and Denver-based Progressive Urban Management Associates, headed by Brad Segal. They worked closely with Fehr and Peers Transportation Consultants, UrbanTrans Consultant, and Carl Walker Inc.

For a copy of the plan: www.DowntownDenverPlan.org