This spring, the City and County of Denver will ask residents citywide to share your ideas and dreams for the future of your city. What are your priorities for mobility, open spaces and for directing growth? What are your ideas for building and preserving healthy, sustainable communities — from Highland to Hampden, from Montbello to Mar Lee?
Through previous neighborhood planning efforts, as well as assessments of rainfall and water flow trends in the area, stormwater drainage was identified as a significant challenge to North Denver.
To address this multi-basin, multi-community issue, the Urban Drainage Flood Control District (UDFCD) and the City and County of Denver (CCD) began the Outfall Systems Plan (OSP) with the goal of defining specific stormwater problem areas and developing watershed-wide solutions to mitigate flood hazards.
The OSP, coupled with the upcoming construction of I-70, presented the City with a unique opportunity to provide a foundation for phased flood protection as well as identify other opportunities for community improvements and amenities through the Platte to Park Hill: Stormwater Systems project.
A Methadone Dispensary/Local Control bill is scheduled to be heard by the House State Government, Military and Veterans affairs committee this Wednesday January 27 at 10:00am . This bill , the Methadone Dispensary/Local Control Bill, will be heard at the Legislative Services Building, 200 East 14th Ave in Denver.
This bill hopes to give neighborhoods more control over Methadone clinics and to have these facilities located beyond 1000 ft of a public or private elementary , middle, junior high or high school.
The city needs to find a place in northeast Denver to retain water when heavy rains flood the storm-drainage system, but residents are trying to stop Public Works from selecting an option that would raze three blocks of the Cole neighborhood.
“We really want to stop that from happening; a lot of people have lived there for generations,” said Warren Karberg, a Cole resident who could potentially lose his home.
The proposed INC Position Statement which was adopted by the ZAP Committee on December 12, 2015 for referral and adoption by INC delegates at the INC delegate meeting scheduled for January 9th.
Staff from Excise and Licenses and Community Planning and Development—in partnership with Councilwoman Mary Beth Susman—will be hosting four town hall meetings and presenting to Denver’s Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation’s Zoning and Planning Committee to outline the proposed STR licensing framework, answer questions and get feedback from the community.
What if the city forced you to sell your house for a project it promises would prevent disastrous flooding? It’s a threat for as many as 50 homeowners in one of Denver’s oldest neighborhoods.
The controversy is in the heart of the Cole neighborhood just south of the coliseum.
For four years Warren Karberg has called his house near East 38th Avenue and High Street home. “My neighbor here is second generation here. On both sides of me is the same family,” said Karberg.
