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Commerce City launches citywide rezoning to implement 2025 Land Development Code
Summary
City staff told the Planning Commission they will pursue a roughly nine‑month legislative rezoning to apply the 2025 Land Development Code citywide, including targeted outreach and a Transit‑Oriented Communities process around the 72nd & Colorado station with a preliminary housing goal of about 1,700 units.
Commerce City on Tuesday launched a citywide legislative rezoning intended to put the newly adopted 2025 Land Development Code into effect across the entire city, staff told the Planning Commission.
City staff said the rezoning is a substantial, roughly nine‑month project designed to convert legacy zoning into the new code, align the zoning map with the adopted comprehensive plan, and create a single, citywide regulatory framework. "The first objective is 1 city, 1 code," Sung, the presentation lead, told commissioners, adding the process will use overlay tools to preserve Planned Unit Development (PUD) entitlements while assigning underlying base zoning.
Why it matters: the 2025 code will apply automatically only to new annexations and new zoning applications until the city performs a legislative rezoning.…
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