The Denver Planning Board advises the mayor and Denver City Council on land use matters including planning and zoning. The 11-member board reviews and makes recommendations on rezoning requests, plans, certain district design standards and guidelines, view planes and other land use rules and regulations.
Planning Board meetings take place on the first and third Wednesday of every month and are open to the public. Meetings are broadcast on Denver's Channel 8 and online at www.Denver8.TV.
General Meeting Information
- Time and Date: 3 p.m., the first and third Wednesday of every month
- Location: Webb Municipal Building, 201 W. Colfax Ave., Room 4.F.6/4.G.2
- Virtual access: Members of the public may participate virtually via Zoom.
- Meeting materials: Agenda information and documents related to each item are posted the Thursday before every meeting.
- Language interpretation: If you would like to request that live interpretation is provided at a Planning Board meeting, please email planningboard@denvergov.org five business days before the meeting.
- Accessibility: If you need disability-related accommodations, including a sign language interpretation or real-time captioning via CART, contact CPDOperations@denvergov.org at least three business days before the meeting you'd like to attend. For other public accommodation requests/concerns related to a disability, please contact DisabilityAccess@denvergov.org.
See agenda and call-in information for April 3 meeting.
See agenda and call-in information for April 17 meeting.
Board members are appointed by the mayor for three-year terms on a volunteer basis.
Jordan Block
Term expires June 30, 2024
Jordan is a passionate and experienced urban designer currently serving as the Global Urban Design Sector Lead for Stantec, an international design and engineering firm. In his work, he is committed to solving complex urban challenges, pushing beyond the traditional confines of planning and design to create vibrant, sustainable, and resilient human-centered places.
Though originally from New York City, Jordan grew up in the City and County of Denver and is a proud graduate of three Denver Public Schools. He received his undergraduate degrees in linguistics and in music from New York University. He worked within the business and real estate realms around the country before pursuing his Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He closed his academic career with a Master of Urban Design from the University of Colorado Denver, an institution and department in which he now proudly teaches.
Jordan is the past chair of the Denver Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Committee. He is heavily involved locally and nationally in the Urban Land Institute, chairing the Colorado Urban Mobility and Development Committee, sitting on the Executive Committee, and serving as a panel member for Advisory Services across the country. Jordan and his family live in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood.
Mary Coddington
Mary developed an interest in cities while working as a flight attendant. A career which enabled her to live in, and experience different urban environments all across the country. After hanging up her wings, Mary moved to Denver to pursue her Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from CU Denver.
Today, Mary is a partner at Cappelli Consulting, an affordable housing consulting firm based in Colorado. She works with a range of clients, both urban and rural, to promote housing access across all price points. Her focus areas include development feasibility, project management, housing strategies, and policy. She and her family live in the Clayton neighborhood of Denver.
Angelle C. Fouther
Term Expires June 30, 2024
Currently, the Director of Communications for Urban Land Conservancy, Angelle has more than 25 years of experience in marketing and communications. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Angelle is driven to aid local communities marginalized by racial and economic disparities. As such, Angelle was the founding chairperson of Montbello Organizing Committee, a nonprofit organization in Far Northeast Denver committed to engaging and equipping residents to address issues such as food access, economic development, and transportation. She has also served in leadership roles on the several boards and as a mayoral appointee to the Denver African American Commission and Blueprint Denver Task Force, where she strongly supported an equity analysis and implementation focus for the city's 20-year plan. Angelle holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Masters of Arts and Culture from the University of Denver.
Fred Glick, vice-chair
Term expires June 30, 2024
Fred Glick is a commercial real estate developer working primarily on adaptive reuse projects in Denver’s urban core. He is also an active community volunteer and currently serves on the boards of RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver Civic Ventures, Clayton United RNO, and Denver Architecture Foundation. He also serves on the Downtown Denver Partnership’s Mobility Council and Urban Exploration Planning Committee. Fred chaired the board of the Academy of Urban Learning, a Denver charter school serving unhoused and at-risk students. He led the Learning Spaces Committee at Denver Shared Spaces, was a member of the Mile High Connects Advisory Council and helped establish the Aurora Welcome Center, serving immigrants and refugees.
A Denver native, Fred spent twenty years abroad in Swaziland, South Africa, India, Egypt and the United Kingdom. He holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and is a master’s student in University of Colorado Denver’s Urban and Regional Planning program.
Gosia Kung
Term expires June 30, 2025
Gosia Kung brings 25 years of experience in architecture and urban design along with 10 years of community leadership and executive nonprofit management. After receiving her degree in architecture in Poland, Gosia moved to the US and focused her professional career on “human scale design”. Along with her husband, Gosia founded Kung Architecture in 2003 – a design practice serving a diverse range of small business owners, infill developers and homeowners, and communities in Denver Metro. In 2011 Gosia established Colorado’s first successful pedestrian advocacy organization WalkDenver. In her role as the Executive Director Gosia led the organization through multiple tactical urbanism projects and public policy initiatives related to investments in pedestrian infrastructure and safety. In 2018 Gosia returned to her career in architecture and was named “Who’s Next: Housing” by Denverite and published articles on neighborhood sensitive affordable housing design in DenverUrbanism.
Heidi Majerik
Term expires June 30, 2025
As Vice President and General Manager of the Denver regional office for the Southern Land Company, Heidi Majerik is responsible for the development of Westerly, a 400-acre mixed-use master planned community in Erie, CO. She is also responsible for identifying and executing new growth opportunities within the Metro Denver market. But her passion for, and expertise in the real estate industry is evidenced by an over 20-year career in community and business development in Denver and its surrounding communities. Majerik specializes in community development which includes strategic business planning, underwriting, project management, entitlements, infrastructure construction management, market analysis, land acquisition and disposition, talent development and negotiations. Before joining Southern Land Company, she was Vice President of Business Development for Wonderland Homes. Prior to that she was the Director of Development for Forest City Enterprises on the redevelopment of Denver’s former airport, now known as Central Park. Prior to that effort she was a development manager for Intrawest US Holdings. Her Colorado projects have included the Copper Mountain Resort Development and a 600-acre golf-course community in Silverthorne. She has also worked as a civil engineer for Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers, where she designed drinking-water treatment plants and other civil infrastructure. She is a past president of the Home Builder’s Association of Metro Denver, is the Treasurer and Board member of the Metro Housing Coalition and is a past Chair of the Urban Land Institute Community Development Council. She has also served as chair of the Economic Development Task Force for the town of Silverthorne. Her career trajectory and her civil service activities reflect her passion for city planning and development and, even more importantly, her commitment to housing. The Pennsylvania native completed her undergraduate degree in Environmental Engineering at Syracuse University, and earned her MBA from the University of Denver in 2011.
Caitlin Quander, Chair
Caitlin is a real estate attorney and shareholder at Brownstein. Her expertise spans land use and zoning, general real estate matters and urban renewal and public finance. She also serves as special and general counsel to various governmental and quasi-governmental entities.
Caitlin served on the community task force to develop Blueprint Denver 2019, the land use and transportation component of Denver’s Comprehensive Plan. Caitlin is currently serving on the Advancing Equity in Rezoning Task Force, a community group reviewing Denver’s process for rezoning properties and recommending potential updates to implement city goals around equity.
Caitlin is on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of Historic Denver, Inc. She is President-elect of NAIOP Colorado, a leading real estate organization.
Caitlin is originally from Montana, but fell in love with Denver during law school. She lives in east Denver where she and her husband are raising their two kids.
Planning Board Design Review Checklist(PDF, 151KB)
The Planning Board has jurisdiction to conduct urban design review and make a recommendation on final action to the zoning administrator in four areas of the city:
- Denver Union Station T-MU-30 Zoning (Ord. #707-04)
- PUD #531 (Commons: west of Union Station and roughly bounded by Wewatta, Commons Park, 20th Street, and Speer Boulevard)
- PUD #449 (Highland Gardens Village: roughly bounded by West 38th Avenue, West 36th Avenue, Tennyson Street and Wolff Street)
The Denver Planning Board is established through the Denver Revised Municipal Code, Chapter 12, Article II, Division 2.
Planning Board Bylaws(PDF, 179KB)
Who is the Denver Planning Board?
The Denver Planning Board is an 11-member volunteer board comprised of Denver residents that advises the mayor and City Council on land use matters. The mayor appoints board members to serve three-year terms. The Board is established through the Denver Revised Municipal Code and follows the rules from the ordinance, as well as its own bylaws.
What is the role of the Denver Planning Board?
The Board reviews neighborhood and citywide plans, rezoning requests, text amendments to the Denver Zoning Code, certain district design standards and guidelines, comprehensive sign plans and general development plans. For most matters, the Planning Board has an advisory role and makes recommendations to City Council or the city’s zoning administrator. The most common land use actions that come to the board are plans, rezoning and design review.
How does the Denver Planning Board do its work?
Plans
Plans set the vision for a neighborhood or area and provide policy guidance for regulations such as zoning. Planning Board reviews a variety of plans including comprehensive, neighborhood, small area, and corridor plans. The Planning Board holds a public hearing to take testimony on proposed plans and plan amendments, and votes whether or not to approve a proposed plan. The plan then goes to City Council for a second public hearing before final adoption.
Rezoning
Rezoning changes the rules for land use and types of buildings permitted on a given property by changing its zone district. Because this public process amends the city’s official zoning map, a rezoning is also referred to as a “map amendment.” Rezoning applications request a “new” zone district and its associated regulations, not approval of a specific development or building type, as one zone district can accommodate a variety of development scenarios.
The Planning Board evaluates rezoning requests against the following criteria (per Section 12.4 of the Denver Zoning Code):
- Is the rezoning consistent with completed plans?
- Would the rezoning result in consistent regulations for each property with the same zoning designation citywide?
- Does the rezoning further public health, safety, and welfare?
- Are there circumstances that justify the rezoning?
- Is the rezoning consistent with the neighborhood context and the zone district’s purpose and intent?
After evaluating a rezoning request against the above criteria, the Planning Board makes a recommendation to City Council. City Council holds a second public hearing and makes a final decision on the request. For more, visit denvergov.org/rezoning.
Design Review
The Planning Board reviews urban design for new development only in these neighborhoods: Denver Union Station, Arapahoe Square, the Commons and Highland Gardens Village. For proposed development in these locations, the Planning Board reviews the proposal for compliance with the relevant design standards and guidelines and makes a recommendation for final action to the city’s zoning administrator.