green roofs initiative
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Denver’s green roof ordinance morphs into a broader mandate
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Denver has one of its first commercial rooftop green spaces despite the city morphing the citizen-led Green Roofs Initiative into a less ambitious energy conservation and heat island reduction plan. McGregor Square, a 659,000-square-foot development owned by the Colorado Rockies that is next to Coors Field, took the green roof ordinance to heart when its design process began in…
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Committee tasked with vetting logistics of Denver’s ‘green roof’ mandate
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Denver is studying how to best implement its new voter-approved mandate on green roofs. The city has formed a 24-member Green Roofs Review Task Force, 9news reports, which will convene for its fifth meeting on Wednesday. The panel is tasked with determining how to enact the rules of the ordinance and whether those rules needs…
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Councilwoman: Green roof proponents didn’t do their homework; now, Denver is left to do it
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The activists behind Denver’s green roof mandate didn’t do their homework, and now the city is left “to do the work that should have been done by the proponents before putting it on the ballot.” That’s the sentiment behind an op-ed authored by Denver Councilwoman Kendra Black in the Denver Post last week. Vocal in the…
