• INC adopts a platform on neighbors role on development.
• Higher density development would not be allowed if it worsens traffic and parking.
• City departments wants to work with INC on its far-reaching proposal.

Registered Neighborhood Organizations would play a much bigger role in developments in Denver, under a platform recently adopted by a group that represents 100 of the 211 RNOs in the city.

“The quality of planning and zoning decision-making is improved when residential neighbors have early and meaningful involvement,” according to the platform adopted with little fanfare earlier this month by the Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation, a non-profit  group created in 1975.

While documents stands on its own as INC’s platform, the organization proposed that the city follows the principles outlined in the eight-page, 2,769 word document.

“We share INC’s overarching goals of transparency, partnership and meaningful public involvement,” according to the Denver Planning Community and Development Department.

“We’ve reached out to INC to ask for the final zoning/planning platform document,” according to a statement from the DPCD.

“We look forward to reviewing it and exploring ways to address the issues raised in the document through process innovations, clarifications and collaboration — all toward our shared goal of building community.”

The platform calls for the mayor and other city officials to appoint representatives of RNOS to all city board, commissions, advisory committee, collaborative working groups and task forces considering planning and zoning issues, to give RNOs more “representation at the table.”

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