INC PARC (parks And Rec Committee) met October 16 at 6 p.m. at Brookdale UPark, 2020 S. Monroe St. Present were co-chairs Maggie Price and Cindy Johnstone, George Mayle, Marlene Johnson, Ronnie Crawford, Ean Tafoya, Diana Helper, Katie and Steve Fisher, Jay and Kathleen Rust, Nancy Francis, and guest Leslie Twarogowski from Denveright. An outline for discussion of Denveright’s Parks … Continue reading →
Removing City Council from vote on DPR park use issues seemed easy a few years back, but putting the vote back in City Council is harder. Still, it is a necessary move, to give citizens a local elected voice. INC and PARC & ZAP are persevering. Also the public needs to know details on park budget expenses.
Proposed dedicated parks tax floated by CM Jolon Clark. Clark’s proposal would increase the city’s sales tax rate by 0.25 percent, or 2.5 cents per $10 purchase. That would bring the effective sales tax to 7.9 percent on regular purchases.
Harriet described the process and importance of creating the Conservancy for this 71-mile-long historic canal which dates to the 1880s and was originally an irrigation ditch for agriculture. It begins at Waterton Canyon and ends at the S. Platte, north of DIA. Today it runs through four jurisdictions each of which has signed on to the Conservancy project and takes an active part. The water it receives from Waterton is regulated by Urban Drainage and Flood Control engineers
LORETTA HEIGHTS
This resolution passed with the INC delegation. If acted upon this purchase could provide additional park land for an area under served and also help to provide relief for other regional parks.
POPUP PARK
pop-up park starts in June on 21st Street between Larimer and Lawrence streets. This appears to be further evidence that Denver requires more parks and open space for their residents. This will be in cooperation with Down Town Denver.
NC PARC met Feb. 16 2016 at 6 p.m. at Brookdale, 2020 S. Monroe St. Present were: co-chairs Maggie Price and Cindy Johnstone; Diana Helper, Kathleen and Jay Rust, Ronnie Crawford, Ray Ehrenstein, James Sample, Marlene Johnson, Katie and Steve Fisher, Greg Sorenson, Kathleen Wells, Sonia John, Brad Cameron, Louis Plachowski, George Mayl, John Joseph Niemann, Kim Morse, Jim Considine, Paul Brown, Mary Sharp, Darcy Wilson, Nancy Francis, guest speaker Happy Haynes, DPR Executive Director
VIDEO KUSA- It’s called Evergreen Hill — a landscape design added on to Washington Park about 100 years ago.
“We normally would’ve been in the dark here, almost, you know in the middle of the day. It was so shady in here,” said Sonia John, with Friends and Neighbors of Washington Park.
A 2010 report done for Denver Water by landscape consultants found high concentrations of sodium around trees in Denver Parks, which is irrigated with recycled water.
INC PARC met May 19. Present were: co-chair Katie Fisher, Steve Fisher, Cindy Johnstone, Ray Ehrenstein, James T. Sample, Ronnie Crawford, Bridget Walsh, Brad Cameron, Nancy Francis, Diana Helper, Kathleen and Jay Rust. PARC discussed the importance of finding more park space in the central neighborhoods of Denver, which is losing “great city” points by its … Continue reading →
