The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) have concluded that noise walls on the south side of MLK from Ironton St. to Moline St. are a “reasonable and feasible” means for mitigating noise impacts on adjacent residences in that three-block stretch.
This is an update to the January Front Porch article “Special District Dispute Nearly Derails Stapleton Bond Issue” (posted at FrontPorchStapleton.com).
The two service districts charged with financing and constructing Stapleton’s infrastructure clashed at a special meeting on Dec. 19.
Twenty-three years after its creation, the Stapleton Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) is questioning its own future.
Landri Taylor, Stapleton Foundation executive director, announced at the November CAB meeting a study into how the foundation could assist buyers in making down payments on affordable homes.
The city of Denver will not enforce the Green Book vision for rental housing at Stapleton. “While the Stapleton Development Plan (Green Book) is mentioned in the Development Agreement as ‘principles’ to be adhered to, the Development Agreement does not adopt those principles as enforceable terms,” says Denver’s housing director Rick Padilla.
Vandals defaced Stapleton’s Isabella Bird school with a swastika and other offensive graffiti over the weekend of November 18th.
The extension of Martin Luther King Blvd. in Stapleton has been delayed for perhaps a full calendar year.
A Stapleton neighbor who visited the Mueller (pronounced “Miller”) neighborhood in Austin, Texas, said it seemed just like being in Stapleton and suggested we visit to see for ourselves.
The board of the Westerly Creek Metropolitan District (WCMD) has issued an invitation to Stapleton-related organizations to participate in a newly formed Strategic Planning Committee.
The Cube is actually a large rectangular interior space built for “community-based programming”—theater, workshops, political forums, banquets, lectures, receptions, wine and beer tastings—and almost anything else the creative minds in Stapleton can dream up.
All Denver residents will pay a tax and most builders will pay a development impact fee under Denver’s new affordable housing fund approved by Denver City Council Sept. 19 on a 9-4 vote.
