Littleton planning commission backs mailed notice for rezoning and adds occupants to list

The Littleton Planning Commission voted 5-1 on Aug. 25 to recommend that City Council adopt an amendment to Title 10 of the Unified Land Use Code requiring mailed notice for rezonings and text changes that affect residential uses in certain zoning districts.

The change, forwarded as PC Resolution 11-20-25, requires notice by U.S. mail to addresses, units and property owners within the applicable zoning districts at least 14 calendar days before the public hearings. Commissioners also approved an amendment to explicitly include occupants in the mailed notice list.

The amendment was the product of weeks of public interest and a citizen petition to place a charter amendment on the November ballot. That petition would lock in the list of allowed residential uses as of Jan. 1, 2025, for several residential zoning districts and prompted city staff and commissioners to propose the targeted notification change as an alternative to putting notification requirements in the charter.

“This ordinance before you tonight . . . says that anytime that our City Council decides that they would comprehensively rezone or do any zoning map amendments or . . . text amendments that change or remove or add residential land uses to the ULUC, we will be required and we will send out notification via…