Life on Capitol Hill - September 2016

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DENVER LAUNCHES ONLINE LICENSING FOR SHORT-TERM RENTALS

by Jacob Karp Denver residents operating short-term rentals (STRs) will have until Dec. 31 to become licensed by the city as part of ordinance 0262, which became effective on July 1. Defined as residential rentals of fewer than 30 days, STRs and their operators will be provided the rest of the year to become compliant with the city’s first online business license.

A May 16 Colorado Public Radio story on the topic estimated there were 1,700 Airbnb units on offer in Denver at that time. Other leading STR providers VRBO and HomeAway also have strong Denver presences.

Peer-to-peer transactions within the STR space allow individuals to rent a portion or the entirety of their home or property.

According to Dan Rowland, Citywide Communications Advisor at City and County of Denver, as of Aug. 19 there were 26 STRs registered citywide. Rowland could not say how many licenses were in process, but said the city was granting new licenses daily.

Stacie Loucks, executive director of Denver’s Excise & Licenses department, says her department’s goal from the beginning “has been to create a licensing structure that is easy to understand and reflects the tech-savvy nature of STR users. This new online application offers a simple and effective way for hosts to get licensed and be in compliance with the city’s new STR ordinance.”

The license, which can be completed entirely online, is a first for the city, with Denver officials claiming it as the only one of its kind in the U.S. “This is the way of the future,” says Rowland. “There is a new proliferation of people doing peer-to-peer

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A BICYCLIST LOOKS ON AT THE NEW BIKE LANE THAT RUNS IN BOTH DIRECTIONS DOWN BROADWAY. THE THOROUGHFARE

will help to alleviate congestion for both bicyclists and motorists as they travel along one of Denver’s busiest streets.

Read more on page 9. Photo by Sara Hertwig transactions, with more customers looking for this and more hosts coming on board.”

Councilwoman Mary Beth Susman noticed the trend towards these types of transactions in 2014 and began to study them, calling them “an orbital shift in the way we think about social and economic exchange.”

She quickly realized a licensing process would need to be put in place to govern the legitimization, regulation and taxation of this movement, with a priority being placed on ensuring neighborhoods remain safe and functional.

“We wanted to protect neighborhood safety,” says Susman. “This gives a sense of security to everyone involved.”

Rowland agrees. “Having this process in place will

by Jennifer Turner After 18 years in operation, Kit Carson Correctional Center shuttered at the end of July. Located in Burlington, on Colorado’s eastern plains, the minimum security prison had a maximum of capacity of 1488 inmates. When it closed there were 400. The remaining inmates were transferred to two other facilities in Colorado also owned by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the private prison company that owns Kit Carson.

A dwindling prison population due to drug sentencing reform and legislative and ballot initiatives in conjunction with the efforts of a growing chorus of prison reform advocates such as Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition (CCJRC) all contributed to the closure.

According to their website, CCJRC, located in Lincoln Park,

help build trust between hosts and neighbors, providing peace of mind that there is a licensing process to keep people accountable.”

The ordinance allows operators to rent their primary residence for less than 30 days at a time, with primary residence being defined as that on your driver’s license, voter registration or utility bills, or as Susman says, the “place you normally return to at the end of the day.”

The primary residence piece is important according to Rowland, for “neighborhood protection and the preservation of residential character” in the hope of avoiding the creation of “hotel streets” throughout the city. continued on 18

“began in 1999 as the Colorado Prison Moratorium Coalition and was formed to support legislation sponsored by Senator Dorothy Rupert (D-Boulder) and Representative Penfield Tate (D-Denver) calling for a three-year moratorium on building prisons in Colorado.”

“We have been incarcerating too many people for too long,” said Christie Donner, executive director and founder of CCJRC. “There are other strategies and investments that can be made to improve public safety. As the number of inmates decreases, it’s just a matter time before more facilities close. Kit was next on the list.”

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EDITORIAL Rather than pen a column trend of worshiping at the altar of editor@lifeoncaphill.com density and the new trend of mimyself this month, I am runpress releases, calendar listings, story ideas, news cro-housing. The result: neighborning a letter from former Life on tips due by September 23 for the October issue Capitol Hill and Neighborhood Life Published the first Wednesday of each monthhoods that can instantly double in population density, neighbors co-publisher, Hilleary Waters. As ADVERTISING that have no influence on what is ever, we welcome reader feedsales@denvermetromedia.com constructed in their midst and a back.

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—Haines Eason, Editor, Denver Get your message to your neighbors in City Park West, Developers are smart. Some are Metro Media Whittier, San Rafael, Uptown, Curtis Park, Five Points, exploiting the unintended conseand RiNo. The following comments were quence of small-lot development given at Denver City Council in with the use of micro-housing WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU support of the Small Lot Developand the city’s worship of density, Monthly since 2006 density. This trend will kill ment Moratorium Bill (CB16-0498) @DenverLifeNews density, which passed unanimously on the goose that laid the golden egg @DenverLifeNews Monday, Aug. 22. which is the charm and beauty of 615 E. Jewell Ave. Denver’s Denver, CO neighborhoods. Housing 80210 Dearfacebook.com/neighborhoodlife Council President Brooks that is close, but not too close. Tree and Denver City Council members, lawns. Tree canopies. Variety of My name is Hilleary Waters. As architectural styles. Buildings that Colorado Press Association the former co-publisher of Life on are in proportion, with landscaping, 2016 member Capitol Hill and Neighborhood Life setbacks and pleasing relationships newspapers for over 21 years, I to their neighboring buildings. here! ®2016What are we getting today? observedYour and photo our papers reported Denver Metro Media on the ebb and flow of developMassive, high-density developALL RIGHTS RESERVED ment changes that came to the ment in a monotonous, prison-like neighborhoods of Central Denver. architectural style driven by deWhat is currently happening velopers exploiting every possible is a perfect storm that most in inch of their property. Whether the general public and many in rows of townhomes, full city block government failed to see coming: apartments, garden-court slot is something you (and anyone Have you noticed five photoszon- photo the adoption of the a form-based homes or micro-unit cram-andelse in the photo) are okay having that now appear on the cover of jam projects—the designs are effiing code, theLife surge in month? popularity published on the front of the paper.

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To the editor, The media is doing a great disservice to democracy when it disappears and smears third party candidates.

Your coverage of the Colorado U.S. Senate race neglected to mention the ballot will include Green Party candidate Arn Menconi, Libertarian Lily Tang Williams and the Unity Party's Bill Hammons challenging incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican Darryl Glenn.

Senator Bennet would rather your readers forget about them, too. More registered voters in Colorado are unaffiliated than are affiliated with either major party, with numbers for third parties and independents growing.

As Colorado gave Bernie Sanders a 19 point win in the Democratic caucus, Bennet was a firm Hillary Clinton superdelegate, working against the will of Coloradans.

Sanders' decisive primary victory in Colorado shows voters prioritize social and climate justice, making the Green Party's Arn Menconi the

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LETTERS

Senate race.

Democratic Senator Bennet has repeatedly voted in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline, for fracking loopholes and fast-track authority for the TPP, all of which pose dire risks to our environment and society.

Former Eagle County Commissioner Arn Menconi is a part of the movement fighting for a $15/hour minimum wage, while Bennet has only supported a raise to $10.10.

Menconi understands the crucial need for bold action in addressing climate change, inequality, ending perpetual wars and in making healthcare a right, instead of a privilege.

Senator Bennet has shown he is out of touch with working Coloradans, putting corporate interests above those of the public, whose campaign war chest is stuffed by corporations and PACs. Colorado could help lead the rising grassroots progressive movement putting people before profits and elect a Green U.S. Senator, a social justice advocate endorsed by Dr. Cornel West, Arn Menconi.

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With these designs developers are maximizing profit, minimizing expense and stripping elegance, charm and style. I’m not anti-development, but I am anti-poor quality development, and that, I believe, will be the legacy of the current development trends.

We are a city of Fischer and Fischer, William Lang, Robert Strong and many other talented architects. They produced elegant apartment buildings, grand homes, small, charming bungalows, classic Denver Squares, the medium sized apartment buildings of the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s. The city encouraged the building of something worthy, substantial, elegant and proportional. Indeed, there once was a movement called “The City Beautiful” championed by Mayor Speer at the turn of the last century.

It was unapologetically noble in its aspirations and we have many fine public and private buildings because of that vision.

Now, I feel that the city just encourages development, period.

Build, build, build. Get as much crammed in as possible. If it fits the form, it gets approved even if it is ugly, cheap, overwhelms its neighbors and hurts the eyes.

Where are the visionaries of today?

Thank you.

Addendum: There are visionary developers in our midst. Westword recently published an article with examples of people who give developers a good name. Visit westword.com and search “developer dirty word.”

In response to previous “LIFE Curmudgeon” articles about the Denver Zoo’s nonprofit status To the editor: Thank you for the opportunity to respond to inaccurate information printed in previous Curmudgeon columns which state that Denver Zoo is a for-profit entity.

Denver Zoo, a proud and grateful recipient of the Scientific Cultural and Facilities District (SCFD) funding, is wholly a non-profit organization, dependent upon funding from SCFD, donations and gate admissions. This support helps us achieve our mission to secure a better world for animals through human understanding, which includes extensive community education initiatives and conservation in the wild.

In 2015 Denver Zoo welcomed more than 350,000 guests free of charge; nearly 90,000 of those occurred during our nine annual free days made possible by SCFD. The zoo participates in projects supporting animals through habitat conservation and research, providing approximately $2 million annually to these efforts. Together, our education and conservation programs are helping us save animals worldwide by both inspiring our two million guests to love animals and also by taking direct action for the welfare of animals worldwide.

For more information on our non-profit status visit denverzoo. org and review our annual reports.

Sincerely, —Tiffany Grunert, VP of External Relations, Denver Zoo

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7 GREAT FREE EVENTS NOT TO BE MISSED THIS MONTH 1 2 3 4 5

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Friday, Sept. 2-Monday, Sept. 5: A Taste of Colorado—Labor Day Weekend in Civic Center Park, 101 W. 14th Ave. Taste puts the spotlight on the diversity of Colorado cuisine. Delight your taste buds with creations from the state’s favorite restaurants and food establishments. Carnival rides, family-friendly entertainment and much more. Times: Friday: 11:30a.m.-10p.m. Saturday and Sunday: 10:30a.m.-10p.m. Monday: 10:30a.m.-8p.m. Info: atasteofcolorado. com.

Tuesday, Sept. 6: Free Target Tuesday Nights at the Children’s Museum. Families can play for free the first Tuesday of each month, 4:00-8:00p.m. Discover the Children's Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus, 2121 Children's Museum Dr., where interactive playscapes, programs and special events make learning fun by engaging kids to play, learn and explore. Info: mychildsmuseum.org or 303-4337444.

Saturday, Sept. 10: Denver Art Museum Friendship Powwow.

Enjoy American Indian dancers and drum groups, participate in hands-on activities, browse a selection of artist booths and enjoy traditional fry bread during the 27th Annual Friendship Powwow.

Inside the museum, explore the American Indian art collection, create beaded works with local artists and visit the Native Arts Artist-in-Residence: Powwow Regalia Studio. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, 10:00a.m.-4:00p.m. Info: denverartmuseum. org or 720-865-5000.

Saturday, Sept. 10: New Belgium’s Tour de Fat. A ballyhoo of bikes and beer! Connecting people with bikes, beer and community since 1997. City Park, 2001 Colorado Blvd. Expect a costumed bike parade, food, music, merriment and—of course—beer. The ride begins at 10:00a.m. from the west side of the Park. Info: newbelgium. com/events/tour-de-fat.

Thursday, Sept. 15: Seniors in September, a great opportunity for Denver's older adults to learn about opportunities for benefits, services and engagement resources. City services, local nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies will provide information and direct connections to opportunities. Breakout sessions include: Financial Empowerment, Silver Sneakers, Fraud Protection and Conscious Aging Topics. Mayor Hancock will address attendees. Free flu shots! Free lunch! Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, 10:00a.m.-2:00p.m. Info: Denver Office on Aging at denvergov.org or 720-913-8456.

Fridays-Sundays, Sept. 23–25 and Sept. 30–Oct. 2: Denver Oktoberfest, a time-honored celebration of German heritage over two weekends each fall. Enjoy German attractions, including music from national touring groups, performances by international dancers, children's activities, heritage booths selling German goods, an accordion concert and authentic German cuisine. On Larimer Street, between 20th and 22nd streets. Info: thedenveroktoberfest.com.

Mondays-Fridays: Take a Colorado Capitol Building Tour, 200 E. Colfax Ave. Stand at exactly a mile high on the steps, see Allen True's beautiful murals, listen in on the Colorado General Assembly and check out the gorgeous Rose Onyx wainscoting. Free tours are available 10:00a.m.-3:00p.m. Info: colorado.gov/capitoltour or 303866-2604.

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CITY COUNCIL DEDICATED AFFORDABLE HOUSING FUND CRUCIAL FOR DENVER co-authored by Mayor Michael B. Hancock, Councilwoman Robin Kniech and Council President Albus Brooks It is a bright moment for Denver’s economy as we grow jobs and see new investment in areas throughout the city, like along Colfax.

For too many residents, however, the benefits of our strong economy remain out of reach—thousands of people in our city are on the brink of being pushed out due to rents and home prices that continue to rise, while others have no home at all. It’s something we know our community is keenly focused on, especially as our city continues to grow.

The landscape is clear. Housing prices have risen at twice the national average. Rents have increased 50 percent since 2011.

Our surge of new residents—approximately 1,000 people per month—further increases demand and prices. What’s more, Denver’s federal funding for affordable housing has dropped by more than a third since 2010. There is no more important a priority in Denver right now than affordable housing.

We’re working hard to tackle this issue head on. Together, we have presented city council with a detailed proposal to create the

city’s first permanent, dedicated fund for affordable housing. Our plan calls for generating $150 million over the first 10 years from two sources to produce and preserve 6,000 affordable apartments, condos and homes.

To address some of the housing demand created by new development, the city would charge a one-time development fee on new construction on a per-square-foot basis. Fees would range from 40 cents to $1.70 per square foot based on the type of development and will go up and down with the economy.

To provide the fund more stability, the fee would be paired with an initial 0.5 mill of property tax, generating about $6.5 million the first year and grow gradually over time. The cost for a typical homeowner with a $300,000 home would be about $1 a month.

Even with this investment, Denver’s property tax rate will remain very low compared to both peer cities nationally and our suburban neighbors. And, the city has property tax rebates to help low-income seniors and disabled residents.

By dedicating new sources like these, housing won’t reduce investments in other important city services, like transportation or safety.

This is a modest approach to help solve a significant challenge and was created with input over the past year from hundreds of people, including housing advocates, nonprofit and for-profit developers, homeless service providers, community representatives, business and industry groups and many, many Denver residents.

Some will say our plan isn’t bold enough, others that it’s too expensive and we can’t afford it. But one thing is certain—the status quo just isn’t an option anymore.

This proposal keeps Denver diverse and inclusive, enhancing our vitality. Affordability is essential to maintaining our strong workforce and keeping our position as a leading city for business, and this proposal will pay dividends for families, seniors and workers, and it will contribute to Denver’s overall economy and quality of life.

If adopted by city council in September, the new fund will create and preserve housing for families across a wide income spectrum. From permanent housing and supportive services for our most vulnerable populations to building new rental and for-sale homes for hard-working individuals and families, the fund will truly serve a wide range of residents.

Keeping Denver affordable is one of our highest priorities. We know it’s one of yours as well.

This new fund will help us harness resources, leverage federal, state and private dollars and make significant progress.

We must seize this opportunity now with a renewed sense of urgency and with our entire community as partners.

To learn more, go to denvergov. org/housing and click on the “permanent fund.”

THE RACE TO BE DENVER’S FIRST FEMALE DISTRICT ATTORNEY

by Jennifer Turner In January, for the first time in the city’s history, Denver residents will have a female District Attorney. It will be either Independent Helen Morgan or Democrat Beth McCann. Current DA Mitch Morrissey is term limited.

In order to secure a spot on the November ballot, Morgan collected over 1,300 petition signatures with the help of volunteers. McCann decisively defeated challengers Michael Carrigan and Ken Boyd in the Democratic primary on June 28, capturing 52.2 percent of the vote.

Each woman has been Chief Deputy District Attorney, which is one of the top jobs in the DA’s Office.

Morgan, 51, currently serves in that role and McCann, 67, held the position from 1981-1983. Both are also Democrats, but Morgan elected to run as an unaffiliated candidate because she believes the job of DA should not be a political one.

While their careers have overlapped, the two women have also taken divergent paths. Morgan, a 22-year veteran of the DA’s Office,

has worked in virtually every facet of the organization during her tenure. Over the course of her career, she has prosecuted 20 homicide cases. One of her most high-profile assignments was five years spent prosecuting a white-supremacist prison gang as part of a statewide grand jury investigation. After that, Morgan reformulated Denver’s drug courts.

From 1975-1983, McCann worked in the DA’s Office. In 1983, she left to join the Denver law firm of Cooper & Kelly for eight years and made partner in 1985. Mayor Wellington Webb appointed her Manager of Safety, which is the civilian head of the Police, Fire and Sheriff’s Offices, in 1991. Subsequent positions included being the first director of the Safe City program, Denver’s Head of Excise and Licensing, and Head of Civil Litigation and Employment for the Attorney General’s Office. McCann has served in the Colorado House representing District 8 for the past seven and a half years. Some of her legislative focuses have been juvenile justice, human trafficking

and gun safety.

When asked to highlight key differences between herself and her opponent, McCann said, “A major difference is that I bring not only extensive prosecution experience but also extensive management and legislative experience.

I have attended many neighborhood meetings and have many contacts in the community, including communities of color. That broader community understanding is much more valuable than a limited career as a prosecutor, particularly now because of the issues concerning excessive use of force by police.

A considerable part of the population doesn’t believe the system is fair and just, and that’s not acceptable. My time since being in the DA's office has allowed me to gain valuable experience in leadership and passage of legislation making a difference in people's lives. I would bring that leadership, a proven record of reform and community perspective to the position."

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SOL COCINA: THE INFLUENCES OF THE BAJA COAST DOMINATE ALONG WITH MEMORABLE

HALCYON FRONT OF HOUSE: YOU WON’T FIND A FRONT DESK AT HALCYON IN CHERRY CREEK.

presentations at Sol Mexican Cocina with its spacious patio and ample dining area that can accommodate groups of all sizes.

The boutique hotel that now graces the old post office footprint is all about comfort, relaxation and offering a feeling of home at its welcoming kitchen counter.

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OPENERS: SOL MEXICAN COCINA Yes, it is finally OK to exhale.

The dust has settled on the west end of Cherry Creek North (CCN), the tall cranes are gone and three new ventures have just debuted.

Each could become the area’s next hot spot. Which gets your vote?

Sol Mexican Cocina—the sun kitchen—finished construction and first opened on Aug. 8. It’s a welcome addition to the food scene in CCN, adding Baja coastal cuisine to the neighborhood mix.

While the name evokes a cozy kitchen, Sol is a large space, seating over 300 at a time indoors or on its wraparound patio at the corner of East Second Avenue and Columbine Street.

Executive Chef and cookbook author Deborah Schneider pulls her inspiration from her travels along the Baja coast. The resulting menu features many fish and seafood dishes as well as more traditional Mexican fare. Many dishes are prepared over a wood fire.

Everything is made from scratch at Sol, including 34 salsas prepared fresh daily, so the menu will vary with the seasons. The Hot and Raw Ceviche is also made fresh daily using the fish of the day.

The menu offers a wide selection of street tacos, then ramps it up. Tacos Vampiro, one of many specialty taco offerings, are a mainstay in Sol’s kitchens. They sound like a mouthful containing melted cheese, serrano chiles and scallions, stuffed with carne asada, guacamole, pico de gallo then topped with cotixa, chipotle aioli and cilantro.

Entrees are also numerous; selections include goat cheese enchiladas and short ribs. Many menu items can be modified to be vegetarian, vegan or gluten free.

This is the fourth location for

Sol, first launched in Newport Beach, CA. There are a few extra challenges in delivering this style of Mexican food at altitude.

“We found in Colorado the chilis are a lot spicier because they’re grown at altitude,” GM Eric Ensch explained.

Media types had the chance to view all items on the menu prior to the eatery’s formal opening.

The display was both lavish and enticing with strong emphasis on plating unusual items in memorable ways. The result was a visual treat.

Don’t overlook the bar, where fresh fruit margaritas are whipped up to order. Tequila fans will welcome the vast selection of 70 different artisanal, premium and ultra premium tequilas and mezcals.

Sol is now open for lunch, when tortas are part of the menu, and a weekend brunch is in the works.

Hours are daily 11:00a.m.10:00p.m. with closing at 11:00p.m., Friday-Saturday. Lunch is served until 4:00p.m. daily and the number is 303-953-2208.

HALCYON Wish you could spend a weekend at your best friend’s luxury home and enjoy views of the mountains this fall? This is the feeling that Sage Hospitality Group (SHG) aims to evoke at its new luxury boutique hotel Halcyon, 245 Columbine St., across the street from Sol, in the middle of the block.

Is the address familiar? I’ve spent many an hour waiting in line for stamps at the old Cherry Creek Post Office over the years. Thankfully, there’s not a trace of the old vibe to be found here. OK, that’s not entirely true. SHG, a company whose middle name should be “attention to detail,” has incorporated leather mail pouches outside its 155 rooms, but that’s where the USPS tribute ends.

Walk in the front door and you have no doubt you’ve entered a

different place. There’s no front desk; instead you’re greeted at a marble-topped kitchen counter.

Need a cup of coffee? Halcyon has partnered with nearby Aviano Coffee on Detroit Street. Need to check in? They do that here, too.

Starving? You can also grab a cookie or some chips or enjoy a glass of wine in the massive den area.

“The name Halcyon is all about a feeling,” said sales manager Anne Frye. “Things are good.”

There’s truly no place like home … unless it’s here. Each room varies, but all succeed in capturing a feeling of home rather than a traditional hotel feel.

Outside your door is a doormat.

“Beware of Dog,” one reads. Yes, Halcyon is pet friendly.

Rooms come with funky, vertical turntables and a sampling of LPs. Coffee tables can transform into desks that are actually comfy and usable. On each floor, you can

fill your water bottle with filtered water—flat or sparking.

Standard rooms are about the size of a nearby Ramada, but they’re steeped in luxury touches, including bathrobes you might need if you want to visit the rooftop lap pool or deck. There’s also a presidential suite that covers 1,300 square feet and two levels for that special moment.

Partnering with CCN merchants is a founding principle. Guests can get a pass to Pura Vida fitness or be styled by the experts at CCN’s new A-Line Boutique, which I wrote about last month.

You can borrow one of the hotel’s electric bikes or scooters to explore CCN. They also loan out other items for active clients, including GoPro cameras, footballs, skateboards and of course, helmets.

On the main level to the north is Departure, one of two eateries that will grace the project. The

other will be Quality Italian Steakhouse to the south, slated to open in November.

Book at halcyonhoteldenver. com or call 855-217-9267. Be sure to ask about the speakeasy Halcyon is trying to keep under wraps.

If it’s as luxurious as the hotel rooms, it should be a runaway hit.

DEPARTURE RESTAURANT + LOUNGE Departure opened Aug. 9 along with the hotel. Massive glass doors give entry to the ground floor bar—a design drawn to conjure the feeling of air flight. Even the artwork is designed to show views from 35,000 feet.

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its fall fashion lines and lots of the company’s signature sweaters.

of dressy and casual attire available at Hollyhocks, 2817 E. Third Ave.

BUSINESS continued from 5 “Departure Denver's décor differs from the Portland location's maritime-inspired design, drawing inspiration from luxury air travel, allowing guests to escape on a global adventure without ever leaving Cherry Creek,” SHG said at the eatery’s debut.

Plans also include Departure Elevated, a seasonal rooftop lounge offering great views of CCN and the Rockies. It pairs nicely with Halcyon’s rooftop pool.

“Departure Denver is exotic, sophisticated and contemporary, all of which we feel makes it unlike anything else found in the city,” said Peter Karpinski, co-founder of SRG. Departure is designed to appeal to diners seeking escape and adventure. If it’s half as popular as the original Portland space, it will be a hit.

Not leaving anything to chance, chef Gregory Gourdet (who serves as culinary director of Departure Restaurants and who was a finalist on Bravo's TopChef in 2015), executive chef Khamla Vongsakoun, Karpinski and others on the Sage team toured Asia extensively in early 2016 to research con-

cepts and the service approach in countries including Vietnam, Korea, Thailand and Japan.

“The goal for Departure is to offer a diverse range of Asian dishes and flavors in a way that is authentic and credible, yet slightly unexpected at the same time,” said Gourdet.

Menu items include dishes that are wok-fired, steamed, smoked or grilled. Vietnamese Duck Curry with coconut milk and holy basil is one offering. Crab, Chinese sausage and XO fried rice with Dungeness crab, ginger and crispy garlic is another. Given the emphasis on seafood, the restaurant is up front about its commitment to serving sustainable offerings.

Here the bar emphasis is on curated saki and whiskey with unique craft cocktails to complement the exotic menu.

Departure’s address is 249 Columbine St. Hours are Monday-Thursday, 11:00a.m.10:00p.m., Friday 11:00a.m.11:00p.m. for lunch and dinner.

Weekend brunch is available 10:00a.m.-2:00p.m. with dinner until 11:00p.m. Visit departure denver.com for all the details.

MARGARET O’LEARY Shoppers could find an old

favorite in the new retail space at 250 Detroit St. next to SOL lingerie.

This is the new home of Margaret O’Leary, a San Francisco mainstay now setting down roots in Colorado.

The shop is named after its founder, who was the oldest of 12 children. Born in County Kerry, Ireland, she learned to knit and her sweaters became a bit hit. O’Leary later moved to California and launched a chain of retail stores.

This is the 15th location.

While it hasn’t been easy selling sweater and fall attire in our recent 90-degree weather, O’Leary features lightweight designs as well as winter weather gear. Irish and Scottish cashmere are in ample supply, but numerous materials are employed and the company makes most the of its offerings including slacks.

The shop opened July 30 and already fans are finding their way to the store. This is evidently a brand with staying power. The manager on duty told LIFE that one customer came in recently saying, “I have had one of your sweaters for 37 years and I love it.”

CCN shoppers may be familiar with O’Leary’s brand if they shop at Garbarini across the street or at Max next door. However, the company shop features lines not

found elsewhere, so the selection complements those at wholesale clients.

Hours are Monday-Saturday, 10:00a.m.-6:00p.m., Sunday 11:00a.m.-6:00p.m. The website is margaretoleary.com as you might predict and the phone is 720-4190202.

A grand opening party is slated for some time in October.

HOLLYHOCKS CHILDREN’S BOUTIQUE Hollyhocks has moved into the former Hutch and Fig space at 2817 E. Third Ave. in CCN. The store serves the younger set as a baby boutique and fine apparel shop for sizes newborn to 16 for boys and girls.

It’s a relocation for the store that first opened in 1999 at East Third Avenue and Holly Street.

“We were a destination store before. You had to want to come here. Now we are someplace where there is a lot of walk-by traffic.

There’s a lot more space, too,” said spokeswoman Dianne Waldrop.

The store built its brand one customer at a time, she added.

“It’s hard to find good customer service. We’re a special order store.

If we don’t have it, we will order it.”

Like the new A-Line Boutique several blocks to the west, Hollyhocks will shop for clients, send attire out on approval or offer other personal shopping services. They’ll assemble complete outfits for any occasion. This approach has earned them clients on both coasts.

When asked what distinguished the company from others in its field, Waldrop referenced the product lines.

“We are a Denver tradition. Our clothes are very traditional, but I’ve added some that look rather Southern and a bit of European lines,” she said.

In addition to special events attire like flower girl dresses, the shop covers kids “day to night, head to toe.” That means a wide selection of fancy footwear and more. There’s also a new tweens section in the loft above the sales counter.

Moving to CCN was a snap for this crew—a boast I don’t hear often in this day of delayed building inspections. Waldrop obviously knows how to organize.

“We moved in on a Wednesday and opened up on a Monday,” Waldrop explained.

Hard to imagine in this day and age. The shop looks like it’s been there for years and it’s charming.

303-388-8001 is the number.

COPERTA As a transplanted New Yorker, I know Italian food. It’s always my go-to choice on cool nights or when I seek comfort food.

So, I’m eager to try out Coperta, the new Uptown eatery at 400 E. 20th Ave., launched by Paul and Aileen O’Reilly. This brother/sister duo made their Denver dining mark with East 17th Avenue’s popular farm-to-table eatery, Beast + Bottle.

At their second venue, the emphasis is on Italian foods and wines from Rome or points south.

Comfort is front and center.

“Coperta is the Italian word for blanket, and my sister Aileen and I grew up in New York eating rustic Italian food, which is comforting, like a blanket,” says chef O’Reilly.

“At Coperta, we hope to offer a warm and welcoming dining experience, much as if we’d wrapped a blanket over the shoulder of our guests.”

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Coperta patrons lots of choices for atmosphere. You’ll know you’re in the right place by the sign imbedded in the front walk.

and eating well. His Aqua Terra catering company will also develop lunch programs for local schools upon request.

rants in America even before it debuted.

Several mozzarella selections top the carte du jour. One’s made from buffalo milk, the other from cow.

Antipasti dishes are plentiful.

Primi plates come in two sizes to satisfy all appetites. Spaghetti Cacio e Pepe is one basic offering— pasta with a simple sauce of cheese and pepper. There’s also fusilli with monkfish meatballs. Some of the pasta is house made; some is dried in Southern Italian style.

Secondi items include eggplant parmesan, lamb shoulder and a heritage pork sausage. A whole fish entree varies daily. The kitchen relies heavily on its wood-fired grill.

The space has been refreshed since its day as Jonesy’s Eat Bar. Three dining areas remain with the entry area still occupied by Jonesy’s fab bar. The other dining spaces are a bit more formal.

Hours are Sunday-Thursday, 5:00-9:30p.m., Friday-Saturday until 10:30p.m. Call 720-749-4666 for reservations. Visit coperta denver.com for complete menus.

chocolate protein popcorn. It’s packed with nutrition in addition to flavor. Hours are Monday-Thursday, 8:00a.m.-8:00p.m., Friday 8:00a.m.-6:00p.m. The exact address is 2190 E. 18th Ave., and the number is 303-955-8791.

One added benefit of this location is ample parking and an easy access from East 18th Avenue heading downtown or East 17th Avenue for the evening commute back home.

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This is RFG’s fifth location. The company offers a wide range of breakfast, lunch and dinner meals in several portion sizes. While there are a couple of tables to dine in, the vast majority of this venture is geared for to go.

Treat yourself to steak and eggs or chicken parmesan atop gluten-free pasta whenever the mood hits you. Meals warm up in just 90 seconds and offerings are built from preservative free, low sodium, low sugar and low glycemic formulas. RFG also uses non-GMO ingredients and all meals are under 500 calories. Some are under 300.

All meals are prepared fresh with attention to balancing macros (protein, carbs and fats) to sustain energy throughout the day.

“Ditch the grocery store and dishes” is the company’s motto.

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It’s nice to see new life at 2220 E. Colfax Ave. in the space last occupied by a magazine company.

Now the shop next to Abend Gallery is home to Co-Op Vape, a true collaborative effort, as the name implies.

“Through an already existing relationship between Underdog Vape Distribution and Artisan Vaper, Co-Op Vape was born with one goal in mind—to provide high quality vape products that help people quit smoking, stay off the cigarettes and have a great time in the process,” the company’s website promises.

303-927-6529 is the shop’s number.

BELLA CALLA DOWNTOWN The ground floor space at The METLO recently occupied by Go Bistro wasn’t vacant long.

The space at East 11th Avenue and Broadway has become a second location for Bella Calla, a floral company that operates its main creative space at 3100 Downing St. This new location is a place to buy fresh flowers or dive into floral classes. It’s a must if you’ve always wanted to make a terrarium or learn to arrange flowers more artfully.

Visit bellacalla.com for upcoming classes, or call 303-593-0716.

operates Ariay Sales & Leasing next door, added RECON for his clients.

It’s a family-owned business that has been involved in the auto trade for over two decades with customer service a top priority.

“We believe in perfection; we treat our clients like family members and their vehicle like our own vehicles,” he said.

In addition to full detailing, the shop offers headlamp restoration, seat repairs, windshield replacement, rock and chip repairs and even alloy wheel fixes. Ariay includes a major engine wash in his services.

“When the engine is dirty, it holds heat. When the engine gets super hot, it’s not good for the gaskets,”Ariay explained.

Best of all, they’ll pick up and deliver your car to you if needed. Hours are Monday-Saturday, 9:00a.m.-5:00p.m. The number is 720-270-2989. Visit yourrecon center.com for the full list of services.

AQUA TERRA “PB&J for lunch uh-ghaann???”

School has just started and kids are already singing the lunchroom blues. Maybe your school should check out a new catering company in town that’s also catering to school kids.

AQUA TERRA Culinary, whose roots are in Monterey, California, has ties to chef Dory Ford. He’s the head chef and proprietor of Baur’s Restaurant and Listening Lounge in downtown Denver. He started the catering effort five years ago and has recently expanded to Denver.

Catering is most often an

evening event. School lunches are prepped in the morning, so Ford sees this as a great service plus a way to keep workers steadily employed.

Called AQUA TERRA Kids, the school program is a bit unique but born of a genuine need.

“We were approached by a couple of parents at a school. They asked, “would you be interested in doing it a couple days a week?”

Ford explained.

After sitting down with those parents and their head of school, the program started in Monterey six years ago.

“Even though the margin is not very big, there are other reasons we do this. First and foremost, we look for ways that we can be involved with our community. It’s a really good way to achieve that,” Ford said.

Fresh and made from scratch daily, the lunches have appeal.

“I created the menu program without looking at the USDA requirements,” Ford said. “I kind of cooked the way my mom cooked

for me. What we found is that we exceeded the requirements for nutrients by 200, 300 or 400 percent.”

To add a school to the program, Ford estimates he needs to have an order for 70 meals a day. Sadly, individual parents can’t order smaller batches. Lunches are delivered shortly before they’re eaten.

“My food is not meant to be held in a hot box,” he said.

Ford has no plan to take over school lunch prep nationwide.

“My goal is to inspire chefs all across America to start their own programs,” he said.

There’s also the benefit of raising healthy eaters.

“You introduce kids to a pomegranate. You’re shaping their habits at an early age.”

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Carl McNew said Windermere is a “perfect fit and offers the ideal platform to grow our company and serve our clients.” Visit wmdre.com for contact info.

ORANGETHEORY FITNESS UPTOWN Located on the hectic East 17th Avenue corridor, OrangeTheory is now shaping up the neighborhood, one body at a time. Or in groups.

Next to Caveau Wine Bar at 450 E. 17 Ave., the company brags, “It’s tough! It’s fun! It’s addictive!”

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offered makeup and makeover services led by founder Michael Moore. Its staple service has been the makeup lesson. In 2005, a product line of mineral-based, custom-blended makeup was added and in 2010, a skin studio offering facials and other skin services became part of the business.

With the move, all the offerings remain. The business is also contemplating the addition of new ones in the near future, they told LIFE. Hours are 9:00a.m.-6:00p.m.

Monday-Saturday. Phone number has changed to 303-399-4151.

The corner building at East Third Avenue and Saint Paul Street will be torn down to create a four-story, mixed use complex as soon as the landlord can relocate Mariel, the one remaining venture that still has a long lease.

AOB MED SPA Once located a door south of Simply Moore, the skin rejuvination biz has also moved. The new address is 3250 E. First Ave. next to Dry Bar. The number remains 303-7775030 and aobmedspa.com features the full list of face and other treatments available.

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SIMPLY MOORE Simply Moore’s nationally recognized cosmetics business has moved from its longtime home at 3000 E. Third Ave. in CCN to 260 Steele St., shrinking in footprint but not in services.

A spokeswoman said, “It is smaller. We are still trying to figure it out. The old space was bigger.

We probably didn’t need all that space.”

Since 2001, the company has

Also on this block, Right Start has vacated its corner on East Third Avenue and Milwaukee Street after water damaged parts of the store. The move is just temporary, however.

Find Right Start on the lower level, just behind their old space while repairs are underway.

MARIEL BOUTIQUE Just a few doors to the west of Simply Moore, Mariel Cherry Creek North is not planning to move—at

least not far. This fall the shop at 3000 E. Third Ave. no. 8 will move several doors west after a new space is spruced up.

Mariel moved from downtown to CCN just over four years ago and has many years remaining on its lease. The new location will be part of the complex that remains one story tall.

The popular women’s shop’s current location will be part of a four-story rebuild, and behind the complex, developers plan a seven-story building which may eat up much of the parking lot due south of 3000 E. Third Ave. Mariel’s will be open during the move. Visit marielboutique.com or call 303-623-1151.

BELLWETHER On August 12, Bellwether at 5126 E. Colfax Ave. near Marczyk’s celebrated a first anniversary with style.

I’d expect nothing less from this venture. Business Insider (businessinsider.com) named bellwether to its “Top 50 Coolest Businesses in America” list shortly after Bellwether opened.

“A hybrid clothing store, whiskey bar, coffee shop and co-working space focused on building community,” the list’s authors described the venture. “We can't think of a reason you'd ever need to leave.”

Bellwether does indeed meld several concepts into one. In addition to coffee, whiskey and clothing, you can also visit the private barbershop in back if you’re a member. You can shop for clothes with a drink in hand, the company often boasts. Definitely unique and worth a visit when you have outof-town visitors, too.

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Party on! Year two is already underway. See what’s next at bellwether.club.

WALTER’S PIZZERIA & PUBLIC HOUSE Uptown just got more sit-down space. Walter’s Pizzeria has expanded both its name and its footprint on East 19th Avenue.

Expansion was possible after Ceramics in the City vacated their longtime space next door. The landlord figured Walter’s might be interested in growing its business.

Now Walter’s is a public house, too. There’s a brand-new bar that anchors a new dining room. A huge patio addition runs along Pearl Street, and bike racks have been added along East 19th Avenue.

Owner Mike Kienast called his pie shop a dream come true in 2010 when the first Walter’s opened here. There’s now a second location in Littleton.

If you’ve ever wondered why the place is called Walter’s, it’s quite a story. Kienast’s wife Jen suggested it be called Walter’s through several years of planning.

When her spouse finally asked “Why Walter’s?” she reportedly responded, “It’s your middle name, stupid.”

That’s when Kienast took her hand, looked her in the eye and said, “Hi, my name is Michael Wayne Kienast! Nice to meet you!”

Another couple—Stacy Turk and her husband, John—will run the new bar and dining space while Kienast focuses on pizza. Turk plans to offer four wines on tap in addition to 23 beers.

“It’s nice to have some wine available,” she said.

I’m not seeing wine with Walter’s hot wings, but with pizza?

You bet.

Hours are Monday-Thursday, 11:00a.m.-10:00p.m., Friday-Saturday, 11:00a.m.-11:00p.m., Sunday 11:00a.m.-10:00p.m.

You can view the menu at walterspizzeria.com. The eatery’s official address is 1906 Pearl St. and the number is 303-864-9000.

BAR MAX The transition from a.m. coffee spot to drinking establishment is complete. Some months ago, Café Max at 2412 E. Colfax Ave. became known as Bar Max. Now there’s been a tweak to their hours. Bar Max is open Monday-Saturday, 3:00p.m.-midnight.

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OSAKA RAMEN CCN This two-story restaurant in the 2800 block of East Third Avenue has seen many concepts come and go during my time with LIFE, but I was frankly surprised to see Osaka Ramen close in CCN. It hadn’t been around long.

Chef/owner Jeff Osaka opened two Ramen locations—the first on Walnut in RiNo and Sushirama on Larimer Street with its conveyor belt delivery system—in just over a year. I mean, the guy’s been busy.

He’s also a driving force behind Central Market, the spacious market slated to open this fall on

Larimer Street in the old Motosport auto gallery space. So, it would be understandable that Osaka chose to close the CCN spot to focus on Central Market. However, there’s more to this story.

LIFE readers will soon be able to sample upscale dishes from the man who made his name in Denver with Twelve Restaurant on Larimer. Osaka and his business partner Ken Wolf will open 12@Madison later this fall.

12@Madison is Osaka’s effort to take his popular Twelve concept to a new level. It will be located on Madison Street near East 12th Avenue in the space recently occupied

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HUTCH & FIG Across the complex that housed Osaka, the elegant home furnishings space at 2817 E. Third Ave. in CCN has shuttered. Owner Amy Figge opened her shop in late 2010 seeking to fill the void left when International Villa and Cook’s Mart departed.

I’m still trying to discover whether Figge plans to relocate her venture.

ECCENTRICITY “Time to retire,” reads the signage at Eccentricity, 290 Fillmore St. Owner Gayle Larrance said she's closing her 30-year-old business in CCN to enjoy a new phase in life.

“It’s been a wonderful journey,” she has told her many loyal customers.

A retirement sale was underway at press time but the shop may be shuttered by the time you read this.

ATTIVO LIBRE In recent months, there have been hand-lettered signs indicating the taqueria at 124 E. Ninth Ave. was closed temporarily and Attivo’s team was on vacation.

Months later, it appears the vacation is permanent and Attivo Libre has closed for good. Their number’s been disconnected.

BLOOM SALON PLUS Located on the lower level at 3000 E. Third Ave., this business has closed.

SUBWAY The location at 1060 E. Colfax Ave. has joined Brident Dental in vacating the revered Smiley Laundromat building project.

Word on the street is not encouraging about the building’s future but Historic Denver has been working with the building’s latest owners to try to save the structure.

THE TAVERN UPTOWN Last but not least, The Tavern Uptown will close Monday, Sept. 5 for a well-deserved renovation, but this popular spot will be back.

After much debate, the Tavern building, which opened in 2000, will be refreshed but not torn down as part of an apartment plan behind the building.

“It’s my first Tavern. That was the creation of our concept. Now that I can keep that building, I’m going to renovate the space. It will be gutted inside and redone,” said Frank Schultz, who owns Tavern Group with his mom.

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BIKING BOTH WAYS ON BROADWAY: 15-MONTH STUDY AIMS TO MOVE EVERYONE SAFELY

by J. Patrick O’Leary Traffic’s now moving both directions on Broadway—at least bikes are.

Denver Public Works (DPW) recently opened a two-way, protected bike lane on six blocks between West Bayaud and East Virginia avenues.

Now as motorists drive southbound on the boulevard and make left turns they will have to watch for cyclists in a far-left lane, wedged between the sidewalk and a parking lane.

“Motorists have never seen this before,” said Sam Lauer of Bike Denver, an advocacy group participating in the study. “So on left turns, they need to be aware cyclists will be going northbound.”

Before, cyclists were to travel only southbound with traffic on the street.

“But there was a problem with bikes using sidewalks and interfering with pedestrian traffic … this is part of an effort to help bicyclists reach their destination, but have their own space, and legally.”

Previously, Broadway had two parking lanes, one bus lane and four drive lanes. The new configuration moves the parking lane into the former left-most drive lane, protecting the new bike lane from auto traffic.

The project began last summer, when Bike Denver, DPW, Broadway Merchants Association and a handful of financial sponsors collaborated to set up a temporary, three-day “pop-up” bike lane on Broadway, according to Lauer.

It is part of the Denver Moves Broadway/Lincoln Corridor Study, launched by the city in September 2015 to “explore options for making Broadway/Lincoln a safer and more vibrant place for all travelers between Colfax and I-25,” according to a project update.

“Our goal is to evaluate the bikeway for a total of 15 months, but after approximately three months of data collection and analysis, we will make a decision about any changes that need to be made before moving forward for another year,” said Nancy Kuhn, Director of Communications for DPW. “The number one thing we will be looking at is safety—is the bikeway operating safely and is everyone arriving safely to their destinations?” said Kuhn.

The other primary goals are collaboration with the community and businesses, and providing mobility options for everyone.

New bicycle and left-turn signals, painted “conflict” zones and signage were installed.

All signalized intersections have bike signals and left turn signals. These not only stop cars turning left when cyclists are traveling through the intersections, but stop cyclists when cars are turning left.

Intersections and driveways without traffic signals have painted green striping to show a potential conflict zone between motorists and bicyclists.

"Left Turning Vehicles Yield to Bicycles" signs are installed at intersections without traffic signals. “Two-Way Bike Traffic” signs are posted at driveways to remind drivers to look both ways for bikes before entering the roadway.

During the study, DPW will be tracking accidents, compliance with speed limits and traffic signals, cyclist demographics, auto and bike parking, pedestrian traffic, bus ridership and punctuality, and automobile volume, travel time and use of parallel traffic corridors.

The study costs approximately $100,000. A further $350,000 will be needed to evaluate and design a corridor-long bikeway, and possibly $5 million to build it, according to a project FAQ sheet.

For more information or to comment on the project, visit denvermovesbroadway.com.

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WARREN VILLAGE Warren Village is proposing to add residences and meeting space for its programs above its Gilpin Street parking garage, and the former DPS offices on Grant may become a storage facility ringed with retail.

The Warren Village project will add eight residences, 10 parking spaces and 7,368 square feet of working space to its 1323 Gilpin St. location. The organization provides housing, family services and early childhood care and education to low-income, single-parent families.

“The primary driver of this is project space,” Warren Village President Ethan Hemming said at the Aug. 3 meeting of the Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods (CHUN) Zoning, Transportation and Licensing Committee. Currently the organization does not have enough space to carry out programming for its clients.

The 14,736-square-foot addition will add two floors above the existing parking structure, making it 38 feet higher.

The lower (second) floor will include flexible classroom seating

for 122 people, a new educational kitchen, an educational garden balcony, restrooms, eight offices and a conference room able to hold 300 people.

The eight new residences will be on the upper (third) floor.

Two existing residences will be remodeled as part of the project.

Warren Village currently has 92 residential units.

The organization had previously proposed building additional space behind the existing structure, but ran into utility easement issues and objections from a residential neighbor, Warren Village board member Mark Waddell explained.

“At every meeting we had to slice off another few feet,” said Waddell.

According to architect Michael Koch the Landmark Preservation Commission did not have negative comments on the newest design, and the next step is community outreach and feedback.

CHUN meeting attendees were concerned with parking and alternative transportation.

One new parking space per new residential unit will be added, although Warren Village Director of Operations Lou Montgomery

explained that may be more than actually needed, as 25 percent of the residents use public transportation. Waddell added that Warren Village was looking into car sharing programs and creating a bike share station.

At press time, the architect was redesigning the exterior of the proposed addition, which would be primarily stucco, brick and glass.

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by Caroline Schomp Denver City Council is hitting pause on two types of multiunit developments, unanimously approving moratoriums on garden court developments and small lot developments with parking exemptions at its Aug. 22 meeting.

The Department of Community Planning and Development (CPD) will convene stakeholder groups to review current zoning and propose new guidelines.

Housing advocates testified against both moratoriums, arguing Denver’s rapid growth requires more housing with greater density. Proponents countered that developers are using ambiguous zoning code language to build projects that threaten neighborhood character.

When Denver updated its zoning code in 2010, “There was a whole lot of stuff overlooked,” said District 10 Councilman Wayne New at the meeting. New is co-sponsor of the garden court moratorium with District One Councilman Rafael Espinoza.

New explained that loopholes in the garden court zoning form allow greater density than intended. Garden courts were intended

to have side-by-side residential units clustered around a wide landscaped central courtyard.

New garden court developments often have buildings, sometimes with stacked units, facing each other over 15-foot walkways without landscaping and either no rear dwelling or a parking structure.

“There is no garden and no court,” said Cherry Creek North Neighborhood Association (CCNNA) President Bob Vogel. CCNNA and New recently negotiated downsizing a garden court development planned at 201 Garfield St. from 30 to 26 units.

“It looked like an apartment complex that was out of character with existing homes,” New said.

“We need to mesh density with neighborhood character.”

CCNNA residents testified they still are not completely happy with the project.

The garden court moratorium will last 12 months while CPD and stakeholders meet to develop and clarify the form. Three projects already underway will be allowed to continue. New projects having a courtyard as wide as the dwellings are high and with only side-

by-side units will be allowed.

So-called “slot homes,” multiunit developments built over garages facing each other over a central driveway, are not affected.

CPD is meeting with stakeholders in a separate effort to evaluate and develop new guidelines for slot homes, which will take 12-14 months.

A seven-month moratorium will pause multi-unit developments on small lots of 6,250 square feet or less without required parking while planners and stakeholders assess neighborhood impacts and clarify rules. Developments underway in Uptown and Curtis Park will not be affected. District Nine Councilman Albus Brooks and District Six Councilman Paul Kashmann co-sponsored the bill.

At-large Councilwoman Deborah Ortega pointed out, “We know that people in Denver still drive their cars and we need to have that balance. Having this timeout will give us the chance to find that balance.”

Councilman Paul Kashmann said he hoped the city would undertake a larger conversation about housing density and what we want our city to be.

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he would lose $400,000 of the district’s $7 million budget as a result of the facility closing.

While Donner is highly sympathetic to the impact on the residents of Burlington, she believes it’s inappropriate to use prisons as economic development.

“We can’t prop up a prison simply because there are financial consequences if it closes. Society is evolving,” she said.

For the past three years, CCJRC staff have received a steady stream of grievances from Kit Carson inmates and their family members.

“The complaints started with a lack of programming and job opportunities at the prison,” said Pamela, CCJRC communications coordinator. “Then there were problems with the kitchen. Folks didn’t feel like they were getting properly fed, for one.”

The last 18 months the facility was open things got increasingly worse.

“Constant turnover and insufficient personnel was a big problem.

The largest concern was when they went without enough medical and dental staff for long periods of time,” Pamela said.

Another facet of incarceration that is getting more attention is the devastating effect it has on families and communities.

According to The Sentencing Project, over 20,000 children in Colorado have a parent in state prison.

Pamela, who has worked at CCJRC since 2006, knows the issue all too well and has testified before Congress about it.

She served four-and-a-half years in Colorado prisons for possession of methamphetamines, and she spent another three and a half out on parole. Her incarceration began several months after her husband died when her children were four

and seven.

Once Pamela was sentenced, her parental rights were effectively terminated. Her young son was adopted. Her daughter, who is several years older, was in and out of 22 foster homes during Pamela’s incarceration. The daughter made it clear she didn’t want to be adopted because, as she would often say, “my mom is coming back to get me,” Pamela related.

After Pamela was released from parole in 2004, she was ultimately reunited with her daughter and the two live together.

Pamela’s son was able to stay in touch with his sister while Pamela was in prison, but his adoptive parents cut off all contact after his sister went to live with Pamela upon her release. The siblings were later able to reconnect via social media.

When her son turned 18, he left his adoptive parents and moved in with Pamela and his sister.

Attitudes about sentencing and treatment have dramatically changed since the late ‘90s when Pamela was incarcerated. She believes if she had been in the same situation today she would have not done any jail time and her kids would not have been taken away.

Pamela’s goal when she started working at CCJRC was to help change the system so no one else would have to experience what she did. She feels progress has been made in the past 10 years and the closure of Kit Carson is another step in the right direction.

However, both Pamela and Christie Donner believe there are still too many people behind bars and there is more work to do.

For more information on Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, visit ccjrc.org.

Editor’s Note: out of respect for her privacy, we have omitted Pamela’s last name.

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“You should not be profiting off of incarceration and it’s extremely profitable for them because they cut costs at every corner,” Donner said.

On Aug. 18, the Justice Department announced it would be phasing out its use of private prisons after a report found them to be less safe and secure than those that are federally run. The report also cited findings showing private prisons offer inmates fewer services and programs.

Approximately 22,000 federal inmates, or close to 12 percent of all federal prisoners, are housed in these facilities. The majority population of private prisons consists of undocumented males who have less than seven and half years remaining on their sentences.

“Private prisons are morally indefensible, parasitic business models,” said Timothy Markham, executive director of Colorado WINS, an organization representing 30,000 state employees, including corrections officers. “They offer low-paying jobs and dangerous working conditions.

Instead of paying private out-ofstate prison companies when there are empty beds in state prisons, we should be investing money to advance the rural economies of the towns in which many of these facilities are located.”

The economic impact of the Kit Carson closure to Burlington is significant. Approximately 142 people lost their jobs. The prison was also a source of revenue for the area’s schools and municipal government; it paid $1.2 million in property taxes last year. The Superintendent of Burlington Schools, Tom Slattery, estimated

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THE SACRED 36: DENVER’S SOCIAL ELITE

by Peg Ekstrand Southern belle Louise Bethell Sneed blew into Denver in 1893 bound and determined to climb the social ladder up to the top rung. And climb she did. Within two years she had married Crawford Hill, one of the Queen City’s best-known eligible bachelors.

His most attractive quality? He came with all the social trappings to boost her up the ladder.

Hill’s father was Nathaniel P. Hill, the smelter magnate (Boston and Colorado Smelting Company), a U.S. senator and the publisher of the Denver Republican newspaper.

Even though Crawford’s mother, Alice Hale Hill, had long ruled the old guard of Denver’s social elite, Louise toppled her shortly after marrying Crawford.

While his two sisters, Gertrude and Emma, bristled at Louise’s brashness, they initially stayed quietly on the sidelines, ultimately leaving Denver all together when they tired of Louise’s posturing.

With her rapid rise to power, what Louise wore, what she said, who she entertained and where she went were all covered by every newspaper in town, none more extensively than the Denver Republican, which Crawford had inherited upon his father’s death in 1900.

One of the most productive years of this social scion’s life occurred in 1906 when she cemented her status as the elite social queen of Denver, producing the city’s first social register titled Who’s Who in Denver Society.

“The Smart Set”—47 names all belonging to the city’s top families—were listed on the inaugural volume’s first page. But the esteemed group was soon dubbed “The Sacred 36” when the Hill family—now including Nathaniel Peter, born in 1896, and Crawford, Jr., born in 1898—moved into their new 22-room mansion on the southwest corner of 10th Avenue and Sherman Street (which still stands).

Louise often held afternoon court at her palatial estate with 36 bridge players. The players filled out nine tables for the popular game, causing one society reporter to give all these card-playing, high-society types the moniker “Denver’s Sacred 36.” Even so, the number in her smart social set rarely stayed at 36 and changed from year to year and even month to month.

Louise’s mid-day entertainments quickly escalated far beyond the dainty tea parties of the old guard that had been hosted by her mother-in-law.

Louise always maintained that next to having money, “you must have the knowledge to give people a good time.”

Soon her lavish gatherings featured dancing and drinking champagne well into the wee hours, and these parties even enticed those stalwart 17th Street financiers to join her on the Hill.

Her gallant group of hoofers

also were instructed in the latest moves, including the Angle Worm Wiggle, the Grizzly Bear and even the Bunny Hug Fever. This activity grew so popular that most of the men requested an additional 7:00a.m. weekday tip off so they could get in a spin or two before heading off to their offices downtown.

In addition, Louise kicked off the start of every spring social season by undraping The Seasons statue which stood proudly in her lush garden. The nude artwork invariably caused a stir— much to Louise’s delight (and probably to the consternation of her neighbors). And then, to launch the fall season, she would host an over-the-top dinner dance at the Denver Country Club.

The 1908 edition of Who’s Who in Denver Society offered advice on the various aspects of enhancing a wannabe’s social stature.

One chapter contains information on how to climb the social ladder with a list of characteristics that defines “What Will Keep You Out”: • An evident desire to break in hurriedly.

• An attempt to buy social position.

• A lack of good sense, of good breeding or “self control.”

This was followed closely by “What Will Get You In”: the proper introductions and “influence.”

The last item, surely coated in gobs of snob appeal, might in today’s parlance read “social pull.”

But was it all just fun and games for the Sacred 36? No, not entirely; a social conscientiousness did ripple through the fluid group. Among the organizations founded or vigorously supported by various members included the Children’s Hospital Association, the Denver Orphan’s Home, the Free Kindergarten Association, the Denver Woman’s Club, the Tuesday Music Club, the Young Woman’s Christian Association, the Denver Dumb Friends League, St. Luke’s Hospital, the State Industrial School for Girls, the Visiting Nurses Association and the Western Institute of Music and Dramatic Art. So just who were some of the movers and shakers in the Sacred 36? To name a few: Miss Evelyn Walsh (of Hope Diamond fame); Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Tears (Tears McFarland Mansion, 1290 Williams St., now home to Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods); Miss Lillian Hurd, queen of the Festival of Mountain and Plain in 1897; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stoiber (Stoiberhof Mansion, 1022 Humboldt); Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Stearns (Stearns-Roger Manufacturing Company); Mr. William Stapleton, editor and manager of the Denver Republican; Mr. and Mrs. George Bart Berger (Colorado National Bank) and Mr. and Mrs. Charles MacAllister Willcox (she was purported to be Louise’s best friend).

Louise Bethell Sneed Hill, originator of the Sacred 36, reigned as Denver’s social monarch for

LOUISE BETHELL SNEED HILL’S FIRM GRASP OF DENVER’S UPPER-CRUST SOCIAL SET WAS ESTABLISHED BY

her afternoon bridge sessions. 36 players filled nine tables for the popular game, causing one society reporter to name these high-society types “Denver’s Sacred 36.” more than 50 years, only curtailing her activities after a slight stroke and a fall that broke her shoulder. Her posh parties ruled the day, her press coverage ruled the media and she long fascinated Denverites of all stripes. Sadly

for some, the age of opulence died with her when she passed away in her suite at the Brown Palace Hotel in 1955.

As Mrs. George Bart Berger, the last surviving member of the Sacred 36, was quoted as saying

in a 1962 newspaper interview, “[Those] were the days of elegance.” When she read the list of her fellow Denver highbrows, she sighed wistfully and said, “it was always like getting ready for a party.”

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Argentine Tango, practice and lessons Tango Colorado hosts these low cost Tango lessons, followed by a practice session where dancers can polish the steps they learned, interact with other students and advanced dancers and improve their skills. | 303-710-2250 Denver Turnverein Event Center 1570 Clarkson St. tangocolorado.org/lessons Mon, 09/26 | 6:00p.m.-7:30p.m.

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Films On Tap: Total Recall Films On Tap - You’ve played drinking games at home, now play them in theater! They give you the rules and because they don’t keep score we all win! Drink specials run all night long. | 720-381-0813 Sie FilmCenter 2510 E. Colfax Ave. denverfilm.org Friday, 09/03-Saturday, 09/04 | 11:59p.m.-2:00a.m.

The Princess Bride Scaling Cliffs of Insanity, battling Rodents of Unusual Size, facing torture. This is not just your run-of-themill fairy tale! Director Rob Reiner's comic fantasy of a perpetually kidnapped and rescued princess features an all-star cast. | 303-733-0148 Esquire Theatre 590 Downing St. landmarktheatres.com Sat, 09/03 | 10:30a.m.-12:30p.m.

Beetlejuice After Barbara and Adam Maitland die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence, unable to leave the house.

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NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED BUDGET AND NOTICE CONCERNING BUDGET AMENDMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the proposed budget for the ensuing year of 2017 has been submitted to the Colfax Business Improvement District (“District”). Such proposed budget will be considered at a meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held at UMB Bank, 1635 E. Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado, at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 13, 2016.

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Akira Based on the best-selling graphic novel by director Katsuhiro Otomo (Steamboy), it’s is a tough, gritty, violent science fiction adventure set in post-apocalyptic Tokyo‚Äîa city overrun by motorcycle gangs and a destructive telepathic force. | 303-733-0148 Esquire Theatre 590 Downing St. landmarktheatres.com Sat, 09/10 | 10:30a.m.-12:30p.m.

Edward Scissorhands Edward has all the essential ingredients for today’s standard body, with the exception of a pair of hands.

For what is initially thought to be a temporary period, he is fitted with long, scissor-like extremities. | 720-381-0813 Sie FilmCenter 2510 E. Colfax Ave. denverfilm.org Wed, 09/14 | 6:30p.m.-8:30p.m.

Indigenous Film Series Presented by Indigenous Film & Arts Festival, Denvera.m.erican Indian Commission and DMNS. August features Navajo Math Circles follows Navajo students in a lively collaboration with mathematicians. | 303-744-9686 Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2001 Colorado Blvd. dmns.org Wed, 09/14 | 2:00p.m.-4:30p.m.

The Great Dictator In his controversial masterpiece, The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. | 303-733-0148 Esquire Theatre 590 Downing St. landmarktheatres.com

Esquire Theatre 590 Downing St. landmarktheatres.com Thu, 09/22-Sun, 09/25 | Times Vary CineLatino CineLatino is a 4-day, cultural celebration of Latino Cinema. With 15 titles, the festival features a healthy mix of feature and documentary films, along with new and repertory titles. | 303-595-3456 Sie FilmCenter 2510 E. Colfax Ave. denverfilm.org/filmcenter Tuesdays, 09/08-09/27 | 7:00p.m.Times Vary Star Trek Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek with the screenings of these classic films! Introduction and discussion with Metropolitan University film professor Vincent Piturro. Screenings: The Original Series (09/08), Wrath of Khan (09/13), First Contact (09/20), Star Trek 2009 (09/27). | 720-381-0813 Sie FilmCenter 2510 E. Colfax Ave. denverfilm.org Wed, 09/28 | Times Vary All The President’s Men Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in the true story of the Watergate scandal that would eventually drive a U.S. President from office. | 303-733-0148 Esquire Theatre 590 Downing St. landmarktheatres.com Thu, 9/29-Sat, 10/01 | 7:30p.m.-9:30p.m.

Sound + Vision: David Bowie Is The film takes the audience on a journey through the David Bowie is exhibition with guests including fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, Pulp front-man Jarvis Cocker, and other collaborators, to explore the

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Dark City A man with no memory and the unique ability to stop time becomes the subject of a manhunt for a serial killer. He hooks up with a police investigator to find out the truth and regain his memory. | 720-381-0813 Sie FilmCenter 2510 E. Colfax Ave. denverfilm.org

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Reception: Fri., Sept. 2, 6-9p.m. | 303-355-0950 Abend Gallery 2260 E. Colfax Ave. abendgallery.com Fri, 09/09 Inherent Intent Group show collectively exploring the intent behind spontaneity, revealing contemporary compositions through minimal color palettes. Finding control in accidents and freedom in unforgiving mediums. Reception: Fri., Sept. 9, 5-9p.m. | 303-355-8955 Walker Fine Art 300 W. 11th Ave. #A walkerfineart.com Daily, 09/11-10/03 Shock Wave: Japanese Fashion Design, 1980s–90s View works of Japanese designers who started a fashion revolution in Paris in the 1980s-90s. Exhibition will feature 70 looks by powerhouse designers including Issey Miyake, Kenzo Takada, Kansai Yamamoto and Yohji Yamamoto. | 720-865-5000 Denver Art Museum 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions Daily, 09/15-Sun, 10/03 Art of Sport: Iconic Photographs of American Legends from 1956-today Work by legendary Denver photographer Rich Clarkson, known for his work featuring american sports icons.

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As the husband of a children’s librarian, I have been a reader of young adult (YA) novels for awhile now. To me, most YA plots I’ve encountered over the years have become pretty repetitive.

There’s a protagonist (these days often female, but not always) who, according to my wife, “cries and cries some more and then you cry, too.” There is even a term for this kind of tale—the “problem novel”—which usually

deals with an adolescent’s first confrontation with a social or personal problem. The term was first used in the 1960s with The Outsiders, but more recent examples include Ask Alice (1971), The Buffalo Tree (1997) and Wonder (2012).

I’m being a little mean here because this is a vast generalization; there a lot of wonderful YA novels out there which have nothing to with social or personal problems. I’m not averse to problem novels because they do provide adolescents some wonderfully identifiable perspectives, but I’ve read so many of them over the years that I’m a bit leery at this point. I like something

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fresh when it comes to my YA fiction.

Emily Hainsworth’s Take the Fall comes as a nice surprise. At first glance, Hainsworth’s thriller is a breezy beach read; the plot revolves around a murder mystery which has a rural New York town in the grips of a panic.

In the opening pages, Sonia and her best friend, Gretchen, two high school seniors, are coming home from a party. Sonia drops Gretchen off at home and is then pursued by an unknown attacker, barely escaping in the process. She awakens the next day to find Gretchen wasn’t quite so lucky and was found dead at the base of the town waterfall.

Who killed Gretchen and why? So far this sounds like your typical potboiler, right?

What surprised me about Take the Fall was that it not only rises above the standard YA tropes, but also becomes an exciting, thrilling read that people of all ages would enjoy. Hainsworth’s prose propels the plot forward with juicy character development that keeps you guessing as to who the killer might be. Is it Marcus, Gretchen’s moody, dark ex-boyfriend that Sonia happens

to have a crush on? Kirsten, Gretchen’s sister, who was considered beneath contempt by her older sibling? Or was it a random outsider who ventured into the close-knit community of Hidden Falls? It turns out that Gretchen had no shortage of enemies, which levels the playing field even more in terms of who the killer might be.

I honestly thought I knew who the killer was several times throughout the novel, but Hainsworth kept me guessing all of the way until the wellthought-out finale. What I think I enjoyed the most about Take the Fall (don’t worry, I’m not giving anything away here) is the denouement. It not only surprises but also contains a healthy dose of authenticity that is frequently absent from whodunits like this.

There are repercussions from every action we take, whether we like it or not. Hainsworth does a nice job of resisting the “let’s tie everything up into a nice, neat little ball and put a ribbon on it” plot.

Take the Fall is the type of read that tweens and teens will enjoy, but it’s a read their parents will be engrossed with as well.

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The Pattern Shop Studio, 3349 Blake St. Celebrating The Pattern Shop Studio’s 25th anniversary, this exhibition features paintings and ceramics by five Denver artists with a strong pattern esthetic: Susan Blake, Marty Jaquis, Jerry Johnson, Jonathan Kaplan and Annalee Schorr. Influenced by 20th century modernist paintings, these artists convey beauty and intrigue using geometric and organic patterns, often calling on mathematics to arrange the shapes. The building that houses the show was at one time an industrial pattern shop in which the man in charge was called the Pattern Maker. The artists in this show see themselves as pattern makes of a different sort, but sense a strong connection to the past. 303-297-9831 or patternshopstudio.com.

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GARDENING copy and image by Julie Hutchinson Sarah, a gardening friend, wrote me about her neighbor, an elderly man who lived near City Park Golf Course and tended a rose garden studded with beautiful blooms. She often stopped to chat with him, she wrote.

But everything about that rose garden changed this year.

“You can just tell when the gardener has left the premises … and there is something so sad about it,” Sarah wrote.

A couple of years ago I wrote about a garden a block from my own. It jumped out at me when I was stopped at a traffic light at 12th Avenue and York Street—an area not known for its gardens.

Built on a low hill up from the sidewalk, the garden was marked with chunks of pinky flagstone, which gave it the points of interest a garden needs to work visually.

Tall things grew on one side with shorter things sloping down to frame the front porch. Emerald green moss stuffed between the stones spilled over among other groundcovers planted for color, leaf shape and texture.

It looked like the heart of London. It was so verdant, at least for a Denver garden. It seemed old worldly and European. There was nothing like it in the neighborhood.

One day I saw its caretaker working. Intrigued, I approached him and we chatted. I wrote a column for this newspaper about him and his lovely garden.

I’ll never forget his remark about a weeping redbud that hadn’t come out of dormancy and stood like a skeleton. He wasn’t sure why it died but said it was like losing a pet. Wow. But something has happened to that garden, just like the elderly man’s rose garden.

It is riddled with weeds now.

Its verdant greenness is gone.

Everything needs water. Nothing is manicured or purposeful. It looks like every other neglected rental property on Capitol Hill.

But worse, because you can see that someone once cared.

Like Sarah, I’m sad that this gardener has left the premises.

Did he die? Turn it into a rental

property? Injure himself in a gardening accident? What in the world happened?

But this isn’t a news article, so I’m not going to try to track down the fellow and get his side of the story. I did check city records and he still owns the building, according to the Denver assessor.

But let’s use this forgotten, neglected garden—along with the elderly man’s languishing rose garden—to remember again the lessons that come from one of the central truths about landscape gardening and life: nothing lasts.

But just because nothing lasts doesn’t mean a neglected garden must stay neglected. In my humble opinion, restoring a neglected garden to its former state of perfection stands as one of the supreme pleasures of playing in the dirt.

Many gardeners face the challenge of an overgrown, neglected garden and experience a feeling of being overwhelmed. Where to start cleaning up? Where to trim?

What’s a weed? What do I do?

So, to honor the dedication of our disappeared rosegarden tender and the man whose rock garden near 12th Avenue and York Street provided pleasure to an entire neighborhood, let’s imagine how we would restore those gardens, given the chance.

(Call me! I’d love to! Maybe Sarah can help!)

Let’s start with the rose garden. We’ll pretend that spring’s final frost has passed, our Felco pruners are ready and we’re wearing gardening gloves. First off, we will prune the roses. Every rose is different, so we will prune after a little research into where to cut, or if we should cut.

We’ll decide that the rose bushes are the central points of interest in this garden, so we’ll focus on trimming dead growth, encouraging new growth with proper cuts and cleaning up plant debris and weeds around the bases of the plants.

Then we’ll give the lawn a good mowing and clip all the edges around sidewalks, trees and foundations. When that’s finished we’ll set out the sprinkler and let it go and go and go for an hour or so.

THIS COTTAGE-STYLE GARDEN HAS BEEN CAREFULLY WEEDED SO THAT EACH PLANT STANDS OUT ON ITS OWN.

It looks pleasingly messy but there are no weeds.

Then we will stand back, look and enjoy. There isn’t much that’s more satisfying than seeing a bad garden become a good garden.

Now let’s move to the rock garden. Let’s imagine it’s September. Got gloves, got pruners. Got a tarp for all the debris.

In this rock garden the focus is the pleasing symmetry of the stacked stones and the plants growing among them. Everything plays off of this.

So we’ll trim all the dead plant material and clean up debris like old leaves from last year, weeds and trash.

We’ll look at the plants themselves and decide if they need a haircut, or whether we like the overgrown effect.

You’ll be surprised how, immediately, everything looks better with just a little tweaking and weeding.

Weeds? What’s a weed?

Whatever you don’t want growing in your landscape is a weed. In some instances this includes so-called real plants, like turf and plants that have reseeded or spread by suckering or rhizomes.

If you’re really new at this, find neighbors with nice yards and ask them to tell you if the growing thing in question is a weed.

Now stand back and look.

Better, eh?

But the barberry bush needs a haircut, you notice, and the red-

bud needs limbing up. Same with the lilac—you want to let its legs show.

Once you get into it, you get it.

Soon, you’ll be pulling weeds like mad, empowered with the knowledge that you’re the boss of this garden.

Just get in there and start pulling and trimming. Notice other gardens. Visit the Botanic Gardens once a week to see how plants change through the seasons. Look at gardening magazines when you’re in line at King Soopers.

But always remember: Nothing lasts.

Do you have a gardening question or comment? Email me any time at juliehutchinson@comcast. net.

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Additionally, Morgan wants to partner with Denver Police, Manager of Safety, Office of the Independent Monitor and other stakeholders to hold public forums explaining the role each agency plays in a fatal law enforcement incident or in-custody death.

Morgan also plans to immediately establish a protocol for presenting cases that allege unlawful behavior by the police.

“Anytime there is a sustained allegation of an officer causing serious bodily injury, I’m going to have two prosecutors reviewing the allegation of misconduct separately and making a decision whether or not to charge,” Morgan said.

“Right now we only do that for sex assault cases. We need to expand this process and start doing it when we have allegations of police misconduct. I can also see doing it in cases where there wasn’t serious injury, but lots of public interest.

In those cases, we will issue letters or opinions if we decide not to charge. We will also issue letters or opinions at the request of a complaining party or police officer. The public has a right to know and has a right to ask questions about the cases we review and the decisions we make.”

Top priorities for McCann include juvenile justice reform and keeping kids out of the court system through community programs she hopes to develop with the mayor and City Council. She plans to

review the issue of mass incarceration and how minor, nonviolent crimes are handled so fewer people are incarcerated. She wants alternatives provided to those with mental health and substance abuse issues. She also believes a good relationship between the police and community is vital, and the DA’s Office should be more involved in rebuilding trust.

McCann said, “The DA’s Office needs to be in the community more. I will require deputies to attend neighborhood meetings so they hear people’s concerns. We will definitely participate in the Mayor’s Cabinet in the Community program which the DA’s Office has not been involved in before. We work for the people and really need to know what they're thinking."

Human trafficking has been an important issue to McCann throughout her career. She will also focus on child abuse, sexual assault, elder abuse and domestic violence cases. As a Denver Deputy DA, she handled a number of high-profile cases involving trafficking and crimes against women and children. McCann was able to pass significant legislation in these areas while in the legislature.

No matter who wins, the MileHigh City will have a female DA early next year.

When asked about this, McCann said, “I think it’s great. It’s about time. Women certainly have good trial, management and collaborative skills, and they bring a bit of a different perspective.”

For more information on the candidates, visit helenmorganforda. com and mccannfordenverda.com.

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formal STR application process for $25. They will then receive their STR license and business file number (BFN), which will need to be posted in each listing the operator makes online.

License numbers will be required in postings so that Excise & Licenses can track, monitor and enforce the ordinance, with fines up to $999 and potential jail time possible for those who are not compliant.

While there will be no limit on the total number of licenses granted, each operator may only hold one license, which is good for each calendar year.

Rowland hopes the easy nature of the online portal will play an important role in incentivizing people to become compliant.

“We made it incredibly easy to be in compliance with the city law, with no barrier to get licensed,” Rowland says.

He also notes the online portal makes sense given STR platforms are also online.

Smith agrees that the licensing process was simple, quick and effective.

“The short-term rental application was amazing,” he says. “This took me maybe two hours total over two days and the paperwork was easy to do because it is online. Within a week we had a license in our hand and a code for our business.”

For more information on becoming licensed, visit denvergov. org/STR.

continued from 1 City Park West homeowner Calvin Smith rents part of his home out on Airbnb and has already completed the online licensing process. In becoming licensed, Smith wanted to be sure that everyone involved with his STR felt safe and secure.

“We wanted neighbors to be comfortable that they knew guests and I are doing the right thing,” says Smith, adding that he “didn’t want guests to think we weren’t on the up and up.”

If potential operators don’t own the property, they must obtain written documentation from the landlord or property owner allowing the operation of an STR. Potential operators will also need to check to verify that their STR is covered under insurance and if the residence is part of a homeowners association, operators must verify that STRs are allowed. Everyone seeking a license must also be legal residents of the United States.

To apply for the license, operators will need to have their lodgers tax ID, which is free of charge and can be applied for and received digitally. All operators of STRs will be subject to a 10.75 percent lodgers tax, which is the same tax that hotels, motels and bed and breakfasts are subject to in Denver.

Once this has been completed, operators can go through the

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CURMUDGEON INSECURE WHITE PEOPLE WHO NEED EVERYTHING TO BE ABOUT THEM MATTER, TOO! That is my new favorite bumper sticker. Well actually it is a three-way tie. I also really like “No Feeding The Hipsters” and “Outlaw Man Buns & Bring Back The Mullet.”

Let’s talk about who matters. Really? We need to talk about who matters? What a sad commentary that is. Of course black lives matter and blue lives matter, as do the lives of people of these persuasions: brown, skinny, chubby, nerds, entitled types, jocks, hipsters, Bromwell moms in line with their strollers at Snooze, Cherry Creek North developers, tiny-home dwellers, vegans, Bronco fans, Dungeons and Dragons players, tatted-up-leather-wearing-motorcycle-riding posers, Junior Leaguers, granolas, the homeless, white people wearing dreadlocks, trust funders, crust punkers with too much hair gel, centennials, millennials, Gen-Xers, Baby Boomers, Subaru-driving-NPR-listening-Patagonia-wearing, bleeding hearted, conservative radio listening-private-club-member-luxury-car-driving capitalists, new-wave healers, wangsters (I didn’t know this group either; my nephew told me about them; they are the white kids who act black) and curmudgeons.

We all matter … or do we?

Have we become too busy labeling, stereotyping, profiling and squabbling over the

differences between us humans that many don’t feel like they matter? Or worse—that only they matter?

What is driving the divide?

It’s easy to blame the government—from both sides of the aisle. Blaming it on politicians is a no-brainer. They have made comedian’s jobs really easy as of late. I blame them, too. After all, we pay them to lead our nation and to represent us all and they have lost their way. Compromising, listening to one another, working together for a better nation (and being honorable in the process) has been hijacked by division, name-calling, sabotaging tactics, childish behavior, hatred and disrespect.

Language is part of the political problem here. How someone or something is described has become code for how one votes or how they identify themselves.

Let’s use immigration as an example. Liberals use the phrase “undocumented citizen” and conservatives favor "illegal aliens."

Democrats and Republicans don’t simply disagree on policy, they are speaking a different language.

Neil Irwin, author of The Alchemists, wrote in in the New York Times recently about this issue.

“In recent years members of the two parties don’t merely emphasize different topics; they often use different language to refer to the same thing. Demo-

crats refer to the ‘estate tax’ and ‘tax breaks’ while Republicans speak of the ‘death tax’ and ‘tax relief,’” Irwin noted.

Let’s not stop with the politicians as this would be selling ourselves short, being lazy or trying to get off the hook. We are all a slice of this America and we must all do our part in making it better pie.

As long-time readers of the Curmudgeon know, I hate political correctness for the sake of harmony. It is unrealistic and annoying, and too often limits discussion, debate and individualistic thought and action.

But I also hate fear mongering, discrimination, hard-headedness, hatred and not hearing any voice that is different than our own.

If I remember Mrs. Heath (my 7th grade social studies teacher) correctly, she said “America is great because we are the most diverse and inclusive culture on earth. We are a nation of dreamers, inventors, artists, builders and doers. We exalt in achievement, we celebrate our differences and unique qualities. America is great in large part because we have always encouraged one another to live out a simple creed: love your neighbor.”

This was in the early 1960s before I was aware of the civil rights movement, living in Broomfield, Colorado, where I didn’t meet a black person until I was twelve.

In looking back almost 50 years, I must admit old Mrs. Heath was a pretty smart cookie.

Back to our responsibility of a being a part of this team known as Americans, or as my friends

in Boulder would remind me, citizens of the world. I believe it starts with listening, celebrating our different points of view and remembering that love does trump hate. We should also do all this with a sense of humor.

This old world would be pretty tricky to navigate—or just no fun—without being able to laugh at ourselves.

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by Peter Jones With school back in session, the kids are back inside and so are the concerts. Fare thee well, Botanic Gardens. Make way for East Colfax.

As the outdoor venues begin their nine-month hibernation, the Central Denver hotspots are starting to call my name—literally.

In preparation for this month’s column, I got interview pitches from such dissimilar acts as Toto and the Subdudes, both booked at local venues in September.

Unfortunately, as the halcyon days of summer wind down, so does the imagined leisure of a world without deadlines. Both bands presented themselves just in time to be too late for LIFE Music.

Thus, we’ll have to wait to learn of Rosanna Arquette’s connection to “Rosanna” and how one of New Orleans’ '90s exports wound up in Fort Collins of all places.

By the way, Toto will play the Paramount Theater on Sunday, Sept. 4. In July, I had the opportunity to spend some time with guitarist Steve Lukather, who was in town doing double duty with Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band. Although Toto is best known for such hits as “Hold the Line” and “Africa,” the song “Human Nature” could well have been one of them, too. As Lukather told me, Michael Jackson asked to record the would-be Toto original while the band backed up the gloved one on “Thriller.”

As for the Subdudes, Colorado’s own swampy R&B-Cajun band—assuming that is possible geographically—comes to L2 Church, 1477 Columbine St., Friday, Sept. 30, in a concert produced by Swallow Hill Music Association. I had these guys on my radio show back in the '90s a year or two after they signed with a national label. Although then assumed by some to be an also-ran in the era’s burgeoning world-music scene, the Subdudes had long paid their real-life dues in the clubs of the Crescent City.

Another Colorado-connected

band, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, comes back to the Bluebird Theater on Friday, Sept. 9. This punk-country combo was among the first bands to be interviewed for LIFE Music back in 1999 or so. Though certainly not for every taste, Cessna makes a somewhat convincing musical case for the tie-ins between working-class, threechord country and working-class, three-chord punk. The band once awkwardly opened for mainstream country’s Joe Diffie, a terrifying event for all involved.

The same night in Five Points brings Fishbone to The Other Side at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom.

The band is among the few to convincingly fuse styles as disparate as funk and punk, metal and ska.

My personal favorite might be Fishbone’s late ‘80s collaboration with Little Richard on a suitable rave-up of Leadbelly’s “Rock Island Line.”

Sunday, Sept. 11, brings Denver’s odd commemoration of the 9/11 terrorist attacks back to Civic Center Park. The anniversary may be one for flag waving, but it is certainly no July 4. Still, the park will be filled with food trucks and a beer garden as crowds flock to the grass to hear free concerts from founding Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty and

Colorado’s own Big Head Todd and the Monsters.

Maybe one day when 9/11 has the distance of Pearl Harbor this awkward mix of mourning and patriotic beer chugging will seem less awkward. But for now, uncomfortably enjoy Americana’s Fogerty, the Californian who turned Louisiana swamps into hit songs and was the genius behind CCR (contrary to the claims of the band’s drummer Doug Clifford, who was interviewed in this column in August 2014).

Big Head Todd was an inspiration to many Colorado musicians in the ‘90s when the band got its major-label deal after years in the Denver-Boulder clubs. I remember interviewing singer-guitarist Todd Park Mohr about the local music scene for Colorado Public Radio back in the day—the pre-internet day when artists actually needed a major label to go national.

Fleetwood Mac completists may want to go their own way to the Ogden Theater Saturday, Sept.

17, when the band’s eponymous drummer, Mick Fleetwood, shares the stage with Mac’s latter-day guitarist-vocalist, Rick Vito. I can only guess that Vito will at least in part be filling the vocal leads of Lyndsey Buckingham and Peter Green as Fleetwood toms away his athletic drum parts.

On Tuesday, Sept. 20, the same venue will welcome one of the gloomier acts of ‘80s new wave when the British Echo and the Bunnymen take the stage with a remembrance of post-punk neo-psychedelia. Original members Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant top the bill in the current lineup.

Try to imagine a better September. Enjoy the music.

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ARCHITECTURE ALL ONE THING—PARKS AND BUILDINGS

by David Wise Viewed from the air, Central Park in New York City is as much a cutout in the surrounding mass of buildings as it is a plane of green. The city is the vessel that holds the tremendous jewel that is the park. How can one exist meaningfully without the other?

In an urban setting, a good public space is the one that is inseparable from and one with its surroundings.

The integration of planting and buildings in new urban development in Denver is an ongoing challenge, with landscape often relegated to decoration. That imbalance is a symptom of bad design or a missed opportunity in public policy. Green encroaches here and there into proposed new building projects, including at balconies and roofs. The drawings may convey false promises.

Sprinkling green on an image to make it more palatable to the community can be a cynical exercise.

Combining the organic and the architectural from the outset of a project design will greatly enhance the overall quality of the living environment within a building and will typically make the building a better neighbor for the surroundings. On Capitol Hill, those surroundings consist of streets, sidewalks and the vast green continuum of our urban forest. That forest is more than decorative in the shade, moisture and sense of scale and shelter it provides for all of us.

There is no one right way to integrate structures and planting, and the idea that a smaller or hidden building is better than a tall or proud building is not correct. As with all fields of design, there are simple conceptual approaches to architecture which can be compelling, beautiful and timeless.

From a planning standpoint, there are important differences in how streets and paths either connect or separate adjacent buildings from parks and public spaces. The west side of Sloan’s Lake Park has for decades lured adults and children alike to risk death as they dash across Sheri-

dan Boulevard from the array of fast food restaurants lining the busy roadway. There is no provision for crossing, and a blindness on the part of planners to the potentially positive relationship between the park and adjacent development seems evident.

On Capitol Hill, we don’t have such treacherous setups in how parks are situated. In a few cases, our architectural amenities are buildings that sit wholly within a park. With carefully planned access and minimal parking to attract cars, those buildings sponsor important recreational and cultural activities that could not take place without them.

I once attended a wedding reception at the City Park Pavilion where park goers went about their business in plain sight of the formally dressed couple celebrating with friends. It was a beautiful sight. Also beautiful are the summer evenings during Jazz in the Park where many hundreds of people organize themselves, their bikes, their kids and their wine bottles with nothing more than simple courtesy to guide them as they arrive, enjoy and then depart. There are no cars in the park, but nearly every other form of small-scale wheeled conveyance is present.

Year after year, one witnesses the amiable convergence of neighbors from the distinct districts surrounding the park.

These neighbors gather there for the high luxury of enjoying a public park and free music. Enjoyment may be possible without buildings, but the architecture of City Park certainly celebrates, facilitates and dignifies the setting for this sort of activity.

A clear example of the differences in planning concepts that affect public space is the contrast in activity of the 7th Avenue Parkway versus the nearby 6th Avenue Parkway.

There are no sidewalks on 6th Avenue, although there is a fine running path. This could be an excellent research project for a landscape architecture student or child development professional.

The simple absence of sidewalks negates a range of activities and

relationships. Perhaps that was intentional. Spending time on both parkways, one will see how a stronger pedestrian system has fostered street life that includes strollers, scooters, red wagons and wheelchairs, along with front porches and street-facing patios.

Also present is on-street parking which leads to a lot of residents and their service people populating the street and sidewalks throughout the day.

Parks are different and complex, but their character and basic usefulness to a range of people are determined to a large extent by how buildings, pedestrian systems, streets, parking and landscape design foster activities and make us feel welcome.

Some buildings use parks and parkways as a place to simply pose and show off themselves.

The enriching of our neighborhood and the success of the civic agenda of public space occurs when the relationship is a twoway street.

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No site development plan has been submitted yet, and no leasing activities have started, Haselden told attendees, but they will not be seeking chain retail tenants. He said it was also too early to say what would happen to the existing trees planted in wells on the sidewalk, but that they would save, relocate or plant new ones.

The group originally looked at adapting the building to residential housing or offices, but determined adequate parking could not be provided. There were structural problems with underground parking and DPS’ nearby parking lot was not part of the sale. Demolition was also considered, but rejected.

Haselden said they looked at multi-family housing density in

the area and determined there were no nearby storage facilities, so market conditions supported the plan.

However, the city code calls for activation of the street frontage with retail. “You can’t just put in storage” by itself, he said.

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by Linda Katchen The school year has started and everyone is settling into a routine of going to class, doing homework and spending time with friends.

Drivers find that they must be aware of flashing lights in school zones and on buses in order to keep children safe.

We anticipate the autumnal equinox on Thursday, Sept. 22. In some regions, leaves are already starting to turn bright colors and fall from the trees.

Although plants begin to become dormant at this time, students and parents do not.

There is much to be done in the next nine months.

Denver Public Schools had the largest graduating class in DPS history last year with over 500 more seniors than in 2015. More than 4,300 seniors graduated in the spring and are ready to progress to college, career and the next steps in their lives. Congratulations, seniors!

In July of this year, DPS was recognized for increasing access and performance, particularly for underserved minority students, at the 2016 Advanced Placement

(AP) Annual Conference held in Anaheim, California.

DPS was named a College Board Advanced Placement District of the Year for being the national leader among large school districts, defined as having 50,000 or more students, by expanding access to AP courses while simultaneously improving AP exam performance. DPS was one of 425 school districts across the U.S. and Canada that achieved placement on the sixth annual AP District Honor Roll.

Emily Griffith Technical College (EGTC), 1860 Lincoln St., turns 100 next month and is still providing extensive hands-on career training that puts thousands of people to work each year. EGTC is training people for industries that are rapidly hiring to fill jobs. The College now has three new state-of-the-art campuses with flexible schedules, day and evening classes and multiple start dates. Most graduates finish in less than a year. The Student Success Center offers free tutoring and extensive career guidance and placement support.

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She is excited about the opportunities for students, teachers and families at Bromwell.

At Teller Elemetary, 1150 Garfield St., Teller's Backpack Friends is still going strong under the new management of Amy Morawa and team members Cynthia Godoy and Shannon Mennell.

Through the generous support of the Teller community, Backpack Friends helps families feed themselves and their children so that no student goes hungry on the weekends or when school is out.

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As for happenings, Teller wants you to save the date. Teller families and the entire Congress Park Neighborhood are invited to a Shells and Sauce Give-Back Night on Sept. 23, 2016, 3-10p.m.

20 percent of all proceeds will go straight to the Backpack Friends Program. Come help support this worthy cause!

Teller’s Green Team Initiative, started last year by school librarian Timothy Hernandez and parent Ian Teller, was a fantastic success.

Teller's Student Green Team will continue raising awareness around composting and recycling. Their efforts to make Teller a more sustainable community committed to reducing the amount of trash produced, has resulted in a dramatic reduction in landfill waste collected at lunch and in classrooms.

Containers placed outside the cafeteria to collect juice pouches were shipped to TerraCycle, who upcycles them into backpacks, pencil pouches and messenger bags or pelletizes them into other usable products like planters, watering cans and waste bins.

Two shipments have been sent and Teller is waiting for a check for all their efforts. Future plans for the year include plastic bags

that will be recycled separately through TREX and two nationwide competitions: The Plastic Film Recycling Challenge beginning November 15 and the PepsiCo Recycle Rally. For the PepsiCo event, each team's goal is to increase the diversion rate from 70 to 90 percent or more.

Teller is very proud of the success of these endeavors and seeks to take the program to new heights this year.

Lan Spengler, Meghan Hughes and Jennifer Baptist, who head up the Teller Garden Team, are pleased to announce that their hard work is paying off. Soon Teller students will begin harvesting, weighing and measuring their bounty of tomatoes, basil, peppers and cucumbers. All the produce grown in the Teller Garden is brought to the cafeteria and served for lunch.

If anyone has or would like to donate a small garden shed, please contact: meghanehughes@ netscape.net.

St. Elizabeth’s K-8 Episcopal School, 2350 Gaylord St., has some very exciting news to share: “This summer, we received notification from the Association of Colorado Independent Schools (ACIS) that St. Elizabeth’s has gained full accreditation status with ACIS! “We have been on this accreditation path since the summer of 2012, and through the hard work of our teachers, staff, parents and the board, SES has shown that we have successfully complied with a rigorous and comprehensive list of membership standards and have established ourselves as a high-quality and successful independent school right here in northeast Denver.

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There are many activities scheduled at East High, 1600 City Park Esplanade, starting with Back to School Night on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 6-8p.m. This event is for East parents and guardians and will allow them a chance to follow an abbreviated version of their student’s schedule and hear classroom expectations. The ACT test will be given on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016 at 7:30a.m. at East.

On Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, the East Alumni Heritage Hall Induction will take place at the Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14 Ave. Pkwy, at 6:30p.m.

“The East Angel Friends and Alumni Foundation will host the fourth induction celebration of the East Alumni Heritage Hall.

Sixteen notable East graduates will be added to the Hall of distinguished graduates who represent over 130 years of outstanding accomplishments.”

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East’s varsity homecoming game against Hinkley will be Friday, Sept. 23, 4p.m., at All City Field, 1500 S. Franklin St. There are many wonderful things happening in our schools.

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DENVER LGBTQ SPORTS LEAGUES EXPANDING FAST

by Jacob Karp Members of the LGBTQ community are building friendships on the playing field thanks to socially conscious Play Mile High’s (PMH) LGBTQ kickball, volleyball and skeeball leagues.

“It’s a positive way to build community,” says Ted Stark, who plays kickball on Monday nights.

“I think it is a way healthier approach for us to be building community than the typical ways that we have had to as a gay community in the past 40 years.”

Unfortunately, according to Stark, one of the typical ways that the LGBTQ community has found to interact with each other in the past has involved alcohol or going to a bar.

“I think that we as a community have been shoved kind of into a corner socially for a long time so that the only way we could build community was over alcohol, so I think that other ways that you can start to find to build community is a healthy thing,” says Stark.

Elliot Jeffords, executive director of PMH, agrees that leagues like this provide new ways for people to interact.

“Being able to provide different events for the different communities is an opportunity for people to introduce themselves in a different way,” says Jeffords.

The LGBTQ leagues initially began with a skeeball league in 2014, after which Jeffords began hearing suggestions from participants for more LGBTQ focused leagues. After noticing the emergence of a popular LGBTQ kickball league in the District of Columbia, PMH created an LGBTQ kickball league of its own in the spring of 2015 and later added volleyball.

“There was really a void in Denver, so once it was on our radar it got accelerated,” says Jeffords.

The leagues continue to expand and now claim nearly 400 members across kickball, volleyball and skeeball. This coming fall will feature kickball and volleyball at Congress Park, with skeeball returning in the spring.

Prices range from $45-65 per person, with six weeks of play guaranteed.

One of the key aspects of the leagues is that they provide a judgment-free place for participants to enjoy themselves.

“This is our three hours of safe space, so I think that is why I really like it,” says Zack Fry, who plays both volleyball and kickball. “I work in a very hetero-normative workplace and everything is so ‘in the box’ that it’s nice to come out and just play kickball. It’s fun and relaxed.”

Stark agrees. “You learn to hide and be somebody else during the day,” he says. “Being able to then come to a place like this, that doesn’t even have to be a thought. If you have a mask, you can take it off.”

Traditional labels are also something that is not focused on as part of the leagues.

“You’re not going to be called out for being a gay player or playing like a gay person,” says Thomas Blome, who plays volleyball on Monday nights.

“No one has ever asked me how I identify, it’s just a very open and accepting group,” says Rachel Winkler, who is in her first season of kickball.

The league also focuses less on gender and more on the equality of all players involved.

“One of the things I appreciate is not having typical gender roles,” says Winkler. “Unlike some of the other co-ed leagues, this league doesn’t dictate male to female ratios.”

The play is competitive, but also focused more on fun and interaction amongst participants.

“There is competition to it, but most of the time it is about having a good time and meeting people,” says Jared Pritchard, who works for PMH and oversees the volleyball and kickball leagues.

There is no requirement that players identify as part of the LGBTQ community to be part of the league, allowing players of all backgrounds to participate.

The emergence of PMH’s LGBTQ leagues come at a pivotal time as the city continues to expand.

A 2015 Gallup analysis of Census data found that Denver had the 9th-largest LGBTQ population in the country, with 4.6 percent of adults identifying as part of the community.

As popularity of the leagues grows, there are plans to make the league its own entity under the PMH umbrella, while clearly defining the name.

“These leagues have grown to be their own complete brand in

Denver,” says Jeffords.

Currently called the LGBTQ leagues, participants within the community also often refer to the leagues as the gay or queer leagues.

After meeting with focus and advisory groups to settle on a

name, PMH plans to rebrand the LGBTQ leagues as Denver Pride Sports.

Regardless of what name is chosen, the leagues are indicative of a welcome movement for the city and the community.

“A league like this is evidence

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