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A proposed measure would replace the five current members, change who nominates members and mandate certain professional backgrounds.

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...

Editor's note: The $1.2 million sale was finalized at the end of January. The final act in a bitter dispute over the sale of two-thirds of El Oasis, a 43-plot garden at 3533 Quivas Street operated by Denver Urban Gardens, included a flurry of animated interjections over Zoom on January 19. The issue was no longer whether a portion of the garden in Highland would be sold — the deal is set to close by the end of January — but whether the city would issue a zoning permit allowing the property to be divided, ensuring that one-third of the land would remain a garden.