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Committee advances rezoning for Focus Points site in Elyria‑Swansea to allow campus uses, affordable housing covenant
Summary
The Land Use, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted to forward a rezoning for 2501 E. 40th Ave. that would move the site into the Campus EI‑2 zone with a negotiated waiver to limit height to 75 feet and a concurrent affordable housing agreement with the Denver Department of Housing Stability (HOST).
Denver’s Land Use, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Monday voted to forward to the City Council a rezoning request for 2501 E. 40th Avenue in the Elyria‑Swansea neighborhood that would reclassify the property to the Campus EI‑2 zone and impose a negotiated height waiver limiting development on the site to 75 feet.
The rezoning request was presented by Edson Ybanez, a planner with Community Planning and Development. Ybanez said the 106,000‑square‑foot site is owned and operated by Focus Points Family Resource Center, a nonprofit, and that the rezoning would allow the center to expand services and would enable the possibility of a fully affordable low‑income housing tax credit project on the property. “The applicant has signed a concurrent affordable housing agreement with HOST,” Ybanez said, referring to the city’s Department of Housing Stability.
The affordable housing agreement described in the staff presentation includes a…
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