Blueprint Boulevard

How should Littleton Boulevard evolve? That's the core question of the Blueprint Boulevard plan, and the community has been responding with thoughtful input.

Littleton Boulevard is an important corridor that serves as a gateway into Downtown Littleton and a key connector for residents and visitors. It’s also a corridor with lots of potential and opportunities, and resident input is essential to ensuring it serves community needs in the decades ahead.

More than 75 people attended an April 9 open house, and the online survey received 461 responses — giving residents and city leaders an opportunity to plan the future together.

Here’s what city planners heard:

• Safety and walkability are the top priority. People want a less car-dominated corridor with better sidewalks, safer crossings, and lower traffic speeds. There's strong support for multimodal design that accommodates people walking, biking, and rolling — not just driving through.
• The corridor should be a destination, not just a route. Today, Littleton Boulevard is perceived more as a transportation corridor than a commercial hub. Residents want it to function more as a place for people to gather, shop, and linger — and they see walkability, comfort, and activity as essential to supporting local businesses.
• More housing is welcome — if done thoughtfully. Respondents broadly support more housing, but they're clear that intensification belongs on the corridor, not in adjacent neighborhoods. Density should come with appropriate transitions that respect and protect surrounding residential areas.
• Character matters. People want improvement, not erasure or generic redevelopment.
• Littleton Boulevard is valued for its identity — and planning for the corridor needs to support existing character while creating room for thoughtful growth.
• The public realm drives economic vitality. Residents see a direct connection between streetscape improvements — trees, sidewalks, comfortable public spaces — and the success of corridor businesses.

What comes next

The city and consultant team are now analyzing this input and developing recommendations that respond to what residents said they value most. This is planning ahead in action — taking time to understand community priorities before making decisions, working with private land owners to guide decisions that will shape the corridor for decades to come.

Your voice continues to matter. Check LetsTalkLittleton.org for upcoming opportunities to engage with Blueprint Boulevard:

• Chat with project leaders during Meet Greet & Eat events at Littleton parks this summer (June 10, July 15, August 19, September 16).
• Watch for signups for upcoming listening sessions on specific topics later this summer.
• Look for announcements for Open House #2 this fall, where the community will review draft recommendations.

Blueprint Boulevard is being shaped by the community it will serve.

Thank you Littleton for submitting so taking our Blueprint Boulevard survey and making your voices heard. We are always moved by the amount of Littleton residents who are passionate about civic processes. But where do we go from here?

Blueprint Boulevard is just getting started!

Come meet with members of our Community Development staff and provide additional feedback on the project at all our Meet Greet and Eat events this summer!

June 10, 2026 – Harlow Park, 5151 S Lowell Blvd, Littleton

July 15, 2026 – Sterne Park, 5800 S Spotswood St, Littleton

August 19, 2026 – Soutbridge Park, 7791 S Windemere St, Littleton

September 16, 2026 – Charley Emley Park, 2301 W Briarwood Ave, Littleton

Connect to the Blueprint Boulevard project while meeting your neighbors, engaging with City Council, and enjoying Free food and entertainment!

More information on Meet Greet and Eat can be found at:

https://www.littletonco.gov/Community/City-Calendars/Events/2026/Meet-Greet-Eat-events

Thank you again for participating in our survey and we can’t wait to see you at the park this summer!

Last call, Littleton! The survey and interactive map for Blueprint Boulevard — formerly known as the Littleton Boulevard Subarea Plan — closes Thursday, April 23 at 5 p.m.

This is the last chance to share thoughts, ideas, and feedback on the future of the Littleton Boulevard corridor. Make your voice heard by visiting LetsTalkLittleton.org/LittletonBlvd.

One of Littleton’s most important corridors is evolving — don’t miss an opportunity to weigh in!

Come to the Littleton Boulevard Subarea Plan Open House this Thursday, April 9 to learn more about the project and provide input.

The plan will guide preservation, mobility, and reinvestment along this vital east-west corridor. It will focus on enhanced safety and accessibility for all users and evolve land use and design strategies to support future economic vitality, while acknowledging the corridor’s unique mid-century modern architectural heritage.

When: Thursday, April 9, 4 to 6:30 p.m.
Where: EPIC Campus, 190 E. Littleton Blvd.

Can’t make it? No worries! You can still weigh in! Take the survey by April 23.

How should one of Littleton’s key corridors evolve? The Littleton Boulevard Subarea Plan will kick off with an open house next month, part of many upcoming opportunities for the community to build a vision for the future.

The plan will guide preservation, mobility, and reinvestment along this vital east-west corridor. It will focus on enhanced safety and accessibility for all users and evolve land use and design strategies to support future economic vitality, while acknowledging the corridor’s unique mid-century modern architectural heritage.

The plan will be developed over the next year and a half, with a final version anticipated for presentation at the end of 2027. Throughout the process, the project team will work closely with the public and stakeholders to ensure the outcomes reflect community needs.

Phase 1 will launch this spring and will focus on identifying assets and issues, and exploring what makes Littleton Boulevard unique. Community members can expect questions like “What do you love about Littleton Boulevard?” “What is working?” “What is not?”

Want to weigh in? Attend the open house meeting on Thursday, April 9 from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at the Littleton Public Schools EPIC Campus, 190 E. Littleton Boulevard.

The City of Littleton’s Community Development and Economic Development departments are preparing a Request for Proposal for the Littleton Boulevard Subarea Plan.

The project would be a master plan for economic and housing development, historic preservation, and multimodal transportation along Littleton Boulevard. City staff presented an overview of the scope of the project to the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) April 15, focusing on the historic preservation and multimodal connectivity aspects of the project.

Littleton Boulevard has been nicknamed the “Mid-Mod Mile” because of its collection of mid-century modern commercial and residential architecture. Under the plan, any development along the street would be mindful of the area’s historical significance, and efforts would be made to preserve and promote the existing architecture.

Members of the HPC hope to educate more people about the “Mid-Mod Mile.” They were especially excited about the prospect of improving the streetscape to be more friendly to bicyclists and pedestrians. Members said if more people could take their time biking and walking down Littleton Boulevard rather than driving, they would have more opportunities to appreciate the street’s unique architecture.

The plan comes from the city’s new Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy, which was adopted by city council in March. A key theme of the strategy is focusing on enhancing and maintaining community character, and while there were many recommendations included in the strategy, city council at its 2024 retreat decided to prioritize a subarea plan for the Littleton Boulevard corridor.

The project is anticipated to be a two-to-three-year initiative, with plan completion set for the second quarter of 2025. The budget for the plan may be appropriated when the contract is awarded following the Request for Proposal.