urban camping ban
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Aurora staff: Homeless camping ban won’t be enforced until city adopts storage policy
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While Aurora’s camping ban is now technically in effect, the city can’t enforce it until it adopts a policy for storing personal items, a provision outlined in an amendment to the original ordinance. City staffers are also looking at renovations to the Aurora Day Resource Center to provide additional shelter, which they identified as a…
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Aurora camping ban will take effect by end of April
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Aurora City Council passed on final reading the urban camping ban sponsored by Mayor Mike Coffman in a 6-5 vote, with Coffman breaking council’s tie vote. This means the ban will take effect by the end of April. The ban will prohibit all urban camping on private and public property within Aurora. It also requires…
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Denver City Council newcomers oppose oversight screener
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The Denver City Council on Monday voted to approve the appointment of a lobbyist who made campaign contributions to several council members to vet candidates to a board that oversees allegations of police misconduct. The council voted 9-3 to appoint Roger Sherman as their representative on a three-member nominating committee that screens application for the…
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‘Tiny homes’ advocates seek funds from opponents of Denver’s Initiative 300
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Tiny homes village to relocate to Denver’s Globeville Denver City Council votes on moving tiny homes village Denver votes reject homeless camping measure The nonprofit that runs the tiny-home village in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood is trying a novel approach to its latest fundraising campaign. The group has appealed to the major donors who contributed funds…
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Denver mayoral candidates spar over urban camping ban
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The signs on the lawn leading up to Denver’s South High School on Tuesday night suggested the mayoral debate inside would be dominated by issues of growth and development. They read like a series of the old roadside Burma Shave signs. “What is Denver?” “Not Sprawling Houston.” “Not over-built New York.” “Not smoggy Los Angeles.”…
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Denver mayor’s race: Dueling rallies break out at city hall
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Talk about your political street fight. The battle to determine who will be the mayor of Denver took the form of dueling political rallies Tuesday on either side of the street in front of the Denver City and County Building. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock (right) with former Denver mayors John Hickenlooper (left) and Wellington Webb…
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DENVER ELECTION 2019: Voters reject homeless camping measure
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UPDATE 5 PM 5/8: Initiative 301, the magic mushrooms decriminalization measure, reversed a 9-point deficit and was narrowly leading by fewer than 2,000 votes in final unofficial returns Wednesday, with overseas ballots yet to be counted. Initiative 300, the ballot measure to allow camping on public property across Denver, was defeated in Tuesday’s city election…
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COVER STORY | Debate over Denver’s streets: As homelessness grips the city, voters ponder scrapping camping ban
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Take a walk along any street in downtown Denver, and chances are good that on any given day you’ll come face to face in vivid and sometimes tragic detail with the extent of the city’s grinding and intractable homelessness problem. A man sprawls unconscious on a sidewalk outside the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Another man…
