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The City of Denver is considering changes to its Expanding Housing Affordability (EHA) ordinances that would extend the deadlines to receive final SDP approval in order to qualify for...
The plaintiffs and a handful of other Park Hill residents filed appeals with the board related to both the zoning administrator's decision to allow for safe-camping sites across the city and the approval of a site-specific permit for the church parking lot. A hearing on that challenge is slated for July 27. During today's hearing, opponents focused on what they perceived to be negative effects of the existing safe-camping sites, especially the one set up last month outside Park Hill United Methodist Church. Kurt Monigle, one of the plaintiffs in the original lawsuit who lives about two blo...
A Denver District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit designed to block the establishment of a safe-camping site in the parking lot of the Park Hill United Methodist Church. "That was the best thing we could've hoped for," says Cole Chandler, director of the Colorado Village Collaborative, which is planning to set up the safe-camping site for people experiencing homelessness later this month and have it operational by mid-June. Judge A. Bruce Jones dismissed the case on May 19, ruling that the five Park Hill residents who'd filed the lawsuit on May 6 — Kurt Monigle, Dave Rodman, Jean-Baptis...
While the proposal had significant support from Denver residents and affordable-living advocates and scored an 11-2 vote from council, it also faced significant — and vocal — opposition. Opponents, who coalesced into an advocacy group called Safe and Sound Denver last summer, argued that the proposed ordinance would decrease public safety, chip away at the neighborhood character of certain parts of Denver, and lead to overcrowding. Safe and Sound Denver also claimed that Community Planning and Development's work was a results-oriented process that had pre-determined outcomes. Mayl is the ...
After the Department of Community Planning and Development worked on the zoning code amendment for three years, Denver City Council approved the changes in February. But the fight isn't over yet.