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The City of Aurora, Colorado, partnered with Multistudio to craft targeted updates to the city's Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), expanding opportunities for compact and small-lot single-family housing.
As Aurora experiences rapid population growth, the need for a broader range of housing options continues to rise. In response, the city is updating the UDO to enable a wider range of housing types across the city, including incremental infill development in established neighborhoods and large-scale greenfield development in emerging areas.
Through this project, the city seeks to enable more diverse housing options, expand the range of housing types and price points, and strengthen core neighborhood design principles that support compact, walkable communities.
The updated UDO focuses on removing regulatory barriers to neighborhood-scale housing and improving neighborhood livability through multimodal connectivity, quality public realm design, mixed housing, access to open space, and proximity to mixed-use centers.
Multistudio’s City Design team is engaging with the local development community to identify and troubleshoot current barriers to developing compact housing, and to analyze precedents and prototypes relevant to Aurora.
The recommended code updates will be supported by a Neighborhood Design Handbook that captures precedent studies and “best practices” in neighborhood design, which will help guide future housing investments from early concepts through permitting.
