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 former president of Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation Denver, an organization founded to represent the interests of the city s registered neighborhood organizations. But in signing on to the campaign against the new ordinance, he says, he s operating as an individual. (The four other people who signed on to be petitioner committee members Samuel Hargraves, Jennifer Qualteri, Richard Saiz and Thricos
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.
An ethics complaint against Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, who flew to Texas over the Thanksgiving holidays after telling his constituents to limit travel, was dismissed by the state's Board of Ethics Wednesday.
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Let’s start with the ice cream.
On June 11 of last year, in the eighth hour of its weekly meeting, the San Francisco Planning Commission heard the case of Garden Creamery v. Matcha n’ More. The owners of the former ice cream shop alleged that the entrepreneurs behind the latter ice cream shop had lied on their planning application to open up in a long-vacant retail space in the city’s Mission District and asked that the planners review their application.
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So far, not much of a scoop in a city famous for petty bureaucratic skirmishes. But because this was 2020, the typical meager audience at the commission meeting had been replaced with the whole San Francisco phonebook. The calls came and came, as locals duked it out over chain stores, gentrification, the pandemic, and ice cream.