Award Winners
Grand Junction, Colorado - The Colorado Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA Colorado) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Chapter Awards. Chapter Awards recognize outstanding projects, plans, and people of the planning profession. Planning projects were honored on the basis of their innovation, ability to provide transferable lessons to other Colorado communities, excellent quality, promotion of community progress and the public good, effectiveness of implementation, and other unique factors that make these projects exemplary.
2025 APA Colorado Chapter Awards Recipients
Honor Awards
- Elizabeth James: Painting the Path Forward: History, Art, and Activation on the 303 ArtWay Heritage Trail in NE Park Hill Denver, CO - Student/Recent Graduate Project Award
- Victoria Lindenmuth: A Demolition Tracking Tool to Promote Adaptive Reuse and Sustainability in Denver, CO - Student/Recent Graduate Project Award
- City of Fort Collins: Strategic Trails Plan - Planning Excellence Award
- Town of Frisco: Comprehensive Plan - Comprehensive Plan Award
- Larimer County: Master Water Plan - Growing Water Smart Award
- Town of Silverton: Land Use Code Update - Planning Excellence Award
Merit Awards
- City of Greeley: Arroyos del Sol Natural Area Site Plan - Planning Excellence Award
- City of Lakewood: Bicycle Plan 2025 - Projects with a Small Budget Award
- City of Lamar: 2025 Comprehensive Plan - Comprehensive Plan Award
- City of Westminster: Parks, Recreation, and Libraries Master Plan - Advancing Diversity and Social Change Award
- Town of Basalt: Midland Avenue Streetscape - Resilience, Sustainability, and Environmental Design Award
- Unincorporated Chaffee County: Land Use Code Rewrite Project - Wildlife Habitat Protections - Resilience, Sustainability, and Environmental Design Award