"I understand why the neighbors are upset," says Denver City Council rep Peggy Lehmann. "It's their front and back yards. Have the contractors been as responsive as they should be? Probably not. We do talk to them. We do what we can. But we can't make them behave. It's just very difficult."
That doesn't satisfy Greta Durr:
Denver taxpayers, Denver City Council recently voted to give themselves another pay raise. We pay Lehmann and our other city council members nearly $100k per year with about one third more in benefits. What are we getting in return? Developers, most of them from out of state, are vandalizing our neighborhoods while Lehmann and her cohorts make secret land deals at our expense, and plan to bulldoze our parks. Turks are fighting and dying in their streets over what we're willing to tolerate with abject complacency.What do you think of the current state of our city? Post your thoughts below.If the president pro tem of the Denver City Council lacks the power to compel developers and a construction company to obey local laws and ordinances governing their business practices, who does? This story isn't about one neighborhood, it foreshadows the future of our city if we don't get off our asses and take a stand.
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