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Council approves rezoning of 10285 Ridge Road for 200-unit mixed‑income transit‑oriented development
Summary
Wheat Ridge council rezoned 10.89 acres at 10285 Ridge Road to MUCTOD, enabling Foothills Regional Housing to plan up to about 200 affordable units plus Red Rocks Community College expansion and community services; council and staff emphasized community outreach and design limits.
The Wheat Ridge City Council voted Oct. 27 to rezone 10285 Ridge Road from Agricultural A‑1 to mixed-use commercial transit-oriented development (MUCTOD), clearing the way for Foothills Regional Housing to develop a mixed-use property that the applicant says could contain up to about 200 affordable housing units, a Red Rocks Community College nursing program building and community-support services.
Senior planner Stephanie Stevens summarized the application (case WZ2502), telling council the 10.89-acre site contains long-vacant former group-home buildings that the state is remediating and that the redevelopment would replace deteriorating structures. Stevens said the applicant's proposed concept plan self-limits density and height: townhome-style buildings of two to three stories along 50th Avenue and up to four stories elsewhere on the site, with landscape buffers and design standards to respond to adjacent low-density residential…
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