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Denver Council remarks explode over moratorium debate
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Comments from two Denver residents against a two-month extension of the City Council’s moratorium on small lot parking exemptions led to some heated responses from a few councilmen and an apology from one if he had gone too far. City Council held a public hearing on the moratorium extension at its March 20 meeting, which…
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Denver City Council’s small lot parking code dispute leads to delay
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Almost every new resident of Denver adds another automobile to the city’s already crowded roads and highways, and those cars and trucks need a place to park when their owners are home or elsewhere. How to come up with those spaces was the source of a somewhat tense exchange on Denver City Council and led…
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Denver’s $4M Target store incentive scrutinized
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Several Denver City Council members have reservations about a proposed $4 million loan to help see a Target open on the downtown 16th Street Mall. The city’s budget and management office is requesting a $4 million supplemental appropriation for the Office of Economic Development’s Business Incentive Fund. That office wants to loan the funds to…
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Denver Council priorities could cost $1.5B
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Faced with one of the fastest growth rates among major U.S. cities nationwide, Denver City Council has identified a range of priorities and goals to help guide budgeting decisions and to decide policy priority areas. Those include more than $1 billion in infrastructure needs and projects alone. Each year, the Council holds a retreat to…
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Financial disclosure, lobbyist changes head to Council
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Denver City Council members and other identified officials would have to report gifts worth more than $50 a year, double the current threshold amount, under an ordinance revising the municipal code. A separate ordinance updating the city’s lobbyist registration requirements includes clearer definitions of who would have to comply with those reporting requirements. The Council’s…
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Endorsements not sought, but given, for Amendment 70
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Getting endorsements from elected officials is not something either supporters or opponents of Amendment 70, which would raise Colorado’s minimum wage, have been working to get, according to campaign organizers. Instead, both camps are 100 percent focused on gathering voters’ support for their side of the ballot question. But that hasn’t stopped some elected officials from…
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Councilman Espinoza wants to rebuild how Denver builds
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Councilman Rafael Espinoza won his spot as District 1’s representative during the 2015 election, running as a foil to the expansion and controversial growth in the area. That message enabled him to ride a wave of disenchantment with the area’s incumbent councilwoman. Espinoza’s victory over Susan Shepherd was a rarity in Denver politics: a sitting…