Denver City Council on Monday ordered published three companion bills that would repeal minimum vehicle parking requirements in the city’s zoning code, moving the measures closer to a future public hearing and final vote.

The three bills — Council Bill 25-0684 (amending the Denver zoning code), 25-0685 (amending chapter 59 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code), and 25-0686 (repealing subsections of Article X of Chapter 27, Housing, relating to vehicle parking incentives and exemptions) — were each amended to change the effective date and then ordered published as amended for required public notice.

Councilmember Cashman moved identical amendments to each bill to strike “July 21” and replace it with “August 11” as the effective date language. “This amendment is moved to change the effective date of this ordinance,” Cashman said when offering the change. The amendment to Council Bill 25-0684 passed on a roll call vote of 10 ayes; the subsequent publication vote on that bill as amended passed 9-1 (Flynn voted nay). Similar amendment and publication votes were recorded for 25-0685 and 25-0686 (amendments passed; final publication votes recorded as passed by council with recorded nays where noted).

The bills were presented from the Land Use, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and were placed on the agenda for required publication; council members were reminded that required public hearings will be scheduled on later dates. The council clerk announced the required public hearing dates for the related zoning bills in late July and August as part of the calendar notices.

No substantive policy debate about the practical effects of removing minimum parking requirements occurred on the floor during the published-item votes recorded in the transcript; discussion during committee or at public hearings is not included in the record excerpted here. The amendment changed the effective date for the ordinances’ publication schedule but did not alter the substantive text of the bills as presented for publication.

Next steps: each bill will appear on the council’s published docket and must pass through required public hearing(s) and final passage votes before becoming law. The council notified the public of deadlines for filing protests against specific zoning changes tied to other bills noted on the agenda.