Property owners in Denver’s Stapleton will vote on changing neighborhood’s name (VIDEO)
Those who own property in Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood will get to once again vote for whether that name will stick around.
The master community association says it will be sending out a referendum in June to property owners who will then be able to vote on changing the neighborhood’s name.
The neighborhood was named after Benjamin Stapleton, a Denver mayor in the 1920s who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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