The Denver Zoo is evolving. Exchanging a taxonomic-based site plan that exhibits animals grouped by family, genus and species for one based on environment including exhibits that contain a variety of species sharing a distinct landscape setting.

The project calls for renovating the facility completely and modernizing infrastructure, in particular.

Parks & Gardens coordinated a series of three planning and design projects including:

• “The Infrastructure Master Plan” satisfies modern regulatory requirements and provides a foundation for new exhibit design.
• “Asian Tropics” new exhibit that builds directly on the Master Plan strategy for detaining only water quality volumes on-site, using the water to support landscape development and passing storm volumes on to Duck Lake in City.
• "Duck Lake Management Plan" coordinates the zoo's permitting strategy for storm management with the City of Denver's Parks and Recreation Department and City Wastewater Department's Montclair Drainage Basin Master Plan.

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