INC Delegation Approves Resolution on City Park Solid Waste Incinerator

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Denver citizens and City Park’s neighbors, who rely on the park’s green space areas for recreation, fitness, and enjoyment, have not been fully informed and included in a decision that affects the park and its visitors and that may place their neighborhoods and City Park at risk, and WHEREAS, The Denver Zoo’s OSWI Incinerator is a unique design, never before built or operated and there are numerous concerns and questions about the safety of the incinerator and its health effects on people, children and animals,…

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5 Ways to Save Denver’s Civic Center Park [Denver Post]

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There’s some reason to believe now is the time. The city’s Parks Department is embarking on a major effort to increase the amount of open space downtown. It wants new parks and better-used parks to balance all the recent construction. The Denver Art Museum is planning a major renovation of its North Building, the 1971 tower designed by architect Gio Ponti, that is right across 14th Street. Both efforts could impact Civic Center.

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RESOLUTION on CITY PARK SOLID WASTE INCINERATOR- Delegation Vote to Support at AUG 8th Meeting

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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation calls upon 1.) the Denver Zoo to document relevant, substantive technical and operational details of its OSWI Incinerator and release this information to the public, and 2.) the Denver City Council to conduct a substantive and technical review of the Zoo’s OSWI Incinerator plant through hearings before its designated Neighborhood and Planning Committee, and when necessary, using its full subpoena powers, taking testimony from Denver Zoo Foundation administrators, engineers, scientists, environmental experts including qualified and credible third parties along with representation from environmental justice groups, Registered Neighborhood Organizations and City Park neighbors to determine the safety and health risks posed by the use of the incinerator, before it be allowed to proceed and to operate.

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