Subject: Urban Planning

• Contested Development

  April 23, 2007

• A Development Grows in Jefferson Park

  May 1, 2007

• Ruby Hill View Plane Lobbyist Switches Teams For The Rockies

  October 9, 2007

• In West Washington Park, a battle over monster duplexes and neighborhood character

  October 16, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Buy local, think local December 1-7

  Buy local week continues through December 5. And while, with Barack Obama's appointments announcement today, it doesn't look like many Coloradans will be heading to D.C., there's plenty to do here at home. Nothing gets the home fires burning like neighborhood fights, and Denver's Neighborhood Stabilization Program -- created by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 -- will send its draft action plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today, outlining how i

  December 1, 2008

• West Wash Park rezoning fight gains steam

  In October, we introduced you to  the battle over monster duplexes and neighborhood character in West Washington Park. Now, as a December 15 City Council hearing approaches, the controversy is exploding into a debate over the future of development in Denver's older neighborhoods. Some residents in West Washington Park want to rezone a portion of their neighborhood to allow only single-family homes. They're tired of watching small bungalows get scraped and replaced by monstrous duplexes, w

  December 5, 2008

• Architect Peter Dominick dead at 67

  Denver architect Peter Dominick suffered a fatal heart attack on New Year's Day while he was cross-country skiing near Aspen, where he frequently vacationed. A prominent figure in the local architectural community, he was from an equally prominent family: his late father was a Colorado senator, also named Peter Dominick, who served from 1963 to 1975. Growing up in Colorado, the younger Dominick became interested in architecture early on. He received his undergraduate degree in architecture fr

  January 2, 2009

• Best Start for a New Neighborhood

  April 4, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  July 18, 2002

• Best Alternative to a Strip Mall

  March 27, 2003

• Best Imitation of a Small Town

  March 25, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from the week of 6/5/2008

  June 5, 2008

• They're Not Columbine Knolls

  Jefferson County struggles to find a place for its sex offenders.

  June 15, 2000

• Hideous Houses of Highland

  More is not merrier for Highland homeowners who want to stop construction in their neighborhoods.

  May 1, 2008

• Tom "The Troubleshooter" Martino's troublesome buildings are still standing

  April 23, 2009

• Moving On Up

  Jefferson Park is being touted as the next Highland, and developers are taking notice -- but not all of the attention is appreciated.

  March 22, 2007

• Shoot to Chill

  Beyond and Spy are outta here with a bullet.

  April 13, 2006

• Building for the Future

  Peter Park is in the urban-planning game for good.

  January 6, 2005

• The Apes of Wrath

  It takes a village to raze a Chinese restaurant.

  January 15, 2004

• Between a Block and a Hard Place

  Not everyone wants Curtis Park to grow up.

  October 30, 2003

• A Change Blowing In

  The Zephyr has weathered life on Colfax for 56 years. But can it withstand the march of progress?

  May 1, 2003

• Property Values

  The feisty Congress Park neighborhood may have met its match in a new developer.

  August 16, 2001

• You Can't Go Home Again

  Especially when someone has leveled your childhood home to make room for two more.

  November 2, 2000

• This Old Housing Project

  To save East Village, is it necessary to destroy it?

  August 31, 2000

• How to Build a Ghetto

  Everyone said they wanted homeless people to be invisible at Lowry. So why aren't they?

  June 8, 2000

• Don't Be Dense

  A Denver neighborhood fights city hall and wins -- for now.

  April 20, 2000

• Playtime Is Over

  Parents in northwest Denver finally got their school -- or did they?

  December 16, 1999

• A Rough Road Ends in Jeffco

  A proposed quarry gets bulldozed by irate residents.

  November 18, 1999

• Big Boss Man

  Jim Hannifin commands a ready-made urban army—and he keeps winning his battles.

  November 4, 1999

• Hell, No, We Won't Grow!

  A new bill proposes leaving rural areas openand developed areas denser than your average pro-growth legislator.

  January 14, 1999

• Worse Than a Pledge Drive

  A southeast Denver neighborhood howls about a public-TV station's profit-making development proposal.

  February 26, 1998

• Another Fight on Colfax

  Plans to spruce up the old street lead to a business squabble.

  June 5, 1997

• FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT

  THE CITY IS UP TO ITS NECK IN THE OLD ELITCH'S--AND NOW IT'S CLAMMING UP.QUEASY RIDERS THE BATTLE OVER THE OLD ELITCH'S THROWS A CITY COUNCILMAN--AND HIS CONSTITUENTS--FOR A LOOP.

  July 19, 1995

• Why did Coors Field buy the old Light Bulb Supply building?

  2010 Delgany, once a potential view-blocker, was recently bought by Coors Field Rockies fans will no longer have to worry about their view of the mountains from Coors Field becoming obstructed by a possible high-rise condo building. The special district that owns the baseball stadium quietly purchased the former Light Bulb Supply building at 2010 Delgany Street for $2.4 million earlier this month, ending fears that a 140-foot building could be built on the site just west of the left stands. T

  April 30, 2009

• Introducing Not-So-New Urbanism

  The Congress for the New Urbanism is holding its annual conference in Denver June 10-14, complete with bus tours of our most well-known new urbanist enclaves. But how do you judge walkable, neighborhood-based developments? Is it by the diversity (or lack thereof) of their residents, the number of parks nearby, their stumbling distance to a local watering hole? Over the next few days, we'll explore and judge -- oh yes, judge -- six of these developments and find out for sure just which is the mos

  June 10, 2009

• Not-So-New Urbanism: Bradburn Village

  Church, steeple, but where are all the people at Bradburn? The Congress for the New Urbanism is holding its annual conference in Denver June 10-14, complete with bus tours of our most well-known new urbanist enclaves. But how do you judge walkable, neighborhood-based developments? Is it by the diversity (or lack thereof) of their residents, the number of parks nearby, their stumbling distance to a local watering hole? Over the next few days, we'll explore and judge -- oh yes, judge -- six of th

  June 10, 2009

• Coors Field again asking for a law to preserve its mountain view -- and maybe get some more parking lots too

  Denver Planning DepartmentThe angle city officials are using to determine the proposed Coors Field view plane. The entity that owns Coors Field is pursuing a view-plane ordinance that would prevent the construction of buildings that might block the view of the mountains from stadium seats -- and not for the first time. A similar proposal in 2007 was dropped after controversy arose over property rights. Ray Baker, director of the Metropolitan Major League Baseball Stadium District, says such l

  June 11, 2009

• Columnist chronicles Denver's New Urbanism conference on the Huffington Post

  Photo by Jonathan ShikesThe new-urbanist enclave of Highlands' Garden Village. Last week, the Congress for the New Urbanism held its annual conference in Denver -- an event we commemorated with examinations of Bradburn Village, Highlands' Garden Village and several other New Urbanist developments in the city; find them in our Not-So-New Urbanism archive. As for the conference itself, the issues debated there are currently being chronicled on the Huffington Post by Frank Gruber, a columnist for

  June 17, 2009

• Kenny Be's Friday Afternoon Club: Councilman Rick Garcia at Sushi Hai

  ​ "A toast to City Councilman Rick Garcia for being chosen as a finalist to the post of Regional Director of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development! And may he bring affordable housing to the nation with the same success that he did in the West Highland neighborhood!"

  October 23, 2009