Englewood planning commission weighs converting industrial parcels to housing in northwest area

The Englewood City Planning & Zoning Commission on Jan. 22 continued a study-session review of the proposed comprehensive-plan update, focusing on “area assessments” for the city’s northwest sector — especially Baker Park, Cushing Park and parcels along the South Platte River — and debating whether some industrial parcels should remain areas of stability or be reimagined for housing.

Planning staff presented the update and a new mapping approach that would replace the plan’s previous 13 neighborhood maps with six larger “area” maps and noted the team’s intent to carry forward the plan’s existing goals (live, work, shop, play) while re-evaluating policies that may now be outdated. “So tonight, we are moving into the neighborhood assessments, and we’re gonna start calling them area assessments,” Planning staff member John Fogel said. Fogel explained the team remapped older neighborhood-level policies to the new area boundaries and flagged policies as green (keep), yellow (questionable) or red (remove).

Commissioners focused first on…