Redevelopment

The City of Westminster is nearly “built out” with no significant opportunity to annex additional land to accommodate new growth and development. This condition raises the critical importance of accommodating and prioritizing adaptive reuse and redevelopment of existing buildings and sites to ensure our city continues to thrive. Recognizing the inherent challenges of redevelopment, the City is taking strategic steps to rethink its strategy. The following resources are available for businesses and developers.

The Westminster Redevelopment and Adaptive Reuse Toolkit was created in 2023 as a collaborative stakeholder endeavor. The Toolkit is meant to highlight the areas where the City can improve its rules and regulations to support infill development, identify potential tools to better support redevelopment and adaptive reuse, and create a guide for business and property owners that details how the City supports these types of initiatives.

View the Redevelopment Toolkit

Comprehensive Plan

The 2040 Comprehensive Plan outlines Westminster’s vision for the future through a framework of goals and policies that support a thriving and healthy community comprised of great neighborhoods. The plan is meant to be a living document that is updated over time to respond to changing conditions and the evolving needs of the community.

Learn more about the Comprehensive Plan

Urban Renewal Areas (URA)

In an effort to keep Westminster vibrant and responsive to community needs, redevelopment opportunities are being addressed throughout the city. The Westminster Economic Development Authority (WEDA) was created to provide a regulatory and financial vehicle for improving and redeveloping properties and facilities within defined urban renewal areas (URAs). Westminster City Council serves as the WEDA Board of Directors.

Accordingly, WEDA was authorized to provide funding for administration, planning and financing of revitalization and redevelopment projects. WEDA’s principal revenue sources are sales tax increment and property tax increment within each of the URAs. Visit the City's Transparency Page to access WEDA's quarterly financial reports. 

Since its inception in 1987, WEDA has established seven URAs:

  • Holly Park
  • Mandalay Gardens
  • North Huron
  • South Sheridan
  • Westminster Center East Sub-Area
  • Historic Westminster
  • Downtown Westminster

View the Westminster's Urban Renewal Area Map (PDF) 

Benefits of Urban Renewal

  • Creates new local jobs – temporary and permanent – and keeps earnings local
  • Establishes an environment that fosters growth in new businesses
  • Promotes the introduction of new housing products, and offers resources for reinvestment in established neighborhoods
  • Provides upgraded and needed infrastructure for future growth
  • Supports local historic preservation efforts
  • Keeps sales tax dollars local for use within the urban renewal area or community at large
  • Only method of financing capital improvements that does not require an increase in taxes
  • More effectively leverages transit improvements, correspondingly lowers regional infrastructure cost
  • Identifies capital improvements needed to stabilize existing areas and encourage reinvestment