CPD recommends SRH 2.5 rezoning at 4626 E. Louisiana; councilmembers flag displacement concerns

Aug. 5 —1 The Denver Community Planning and Development (CPD) staff recommended approval of a rezoning application at 4626 East Louisiana Avenue that would change the property from single-unit zoning to SRH 2.5 (suburban row house, up to 2.5 stories). CPD planner Edson Ivanias said the application was amended in June from an SMU-3 request (multiunit up to three stories) to SRH 2.5 after neighborhood concerns about three-story apartments.

Ivanias said the site is roughly 24,000 square feet and sits in a transitional area: single-family neighborhoods to the south, small-scale multifamily and townhome development to the west and north, and larger apartment buildings just north of Louisiana. CPD staff noted the Near Southeast Area Plan (2023) and Blueprint Denver (2019) classify the place as "low-medium residential" and recommend small multiunit building forms and heights up to 2.5 or three stories in appropriate locations; CPD found the SRH 2.5…