“Increased Density on Tennyson Street in Denver”—by Protect Our Old Town Homes
Please see the following blog post from Protect Our Old Town Homes (POOTH). POOTH has been working hard on historical preservation in Old Town Fort Collins for many years, including by playing a substantial participatory role in the drafting of the City’s Old Town Neighborhoods Plans with the City of Fort Collins. Unfortunately, these Old Town Plans were largely ignored (like other subarea plans have been recently) when the now repealed LDC was created. The City has not engaged with the community on this geographic subarea planning scale for the current Land Use Code discussion. The image sequence in the POOTH blog post shows a very real example from Denver of the kind of dramatic increase in density (“upzoning”) that the LDC would have encouraged.
Protect Our Old Town Homes-Fort Collins:
This is what increasing density looks like on the 4400 block on Tennyson Street in Denver. All images captured through Google Streetview. 4470 N. Tennyson St. is the house at the center of each image. (See Image Sequence Below)
4470 N. Tennyson St, Denver – September 2011
4470 N. Tennyson St, Denver – September 2014
4470 N. Tennyson St, Denver – September 2015
4470 N. Tennyson St, Denver – April 2022
For more heartbreaking images, including how the home and its garden are eclipsed by the new luxury high-rise buildings on each side, see the images from the following Zillow listing description. Planners and builders should add upward high-density multiunit housing where it makes sense, along actual transit corridors. There is no need to carelessly disrupt existing neighborhoods without concern for the homes of families who live in long-established communities.
screenshot of MLS listing image