Group living situations on November ballot
Boulder and Denver voters will consider two contrasting ballot questions in November that deal with group living situations.
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Boulder and Denver voters will consider two contrasting ballot questions in November that deal with group living situations.
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.
January 12, 2021 CFOIC Executive Director A judge Monday ordered Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s office to publicly disclose all but four pages of withheld emails about an advisory group formed to examine single-family housing rules. The mayor’s office had invoked the deliberative process privilege in the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) to deny Florence Sebern’s request for documents concerning the Group Living Advisory Committee, and it had claimed the records were protected by attorney-client privilege. But Denver District Court Judge Michael Vallejos, who examined the emails and atta...