Name of Document: Colorado Municipal Code: Title 14: Streets and Sidewalks Date: found online 3 July 2019 Open Source Document PDF PDF Contact: State of Colorado Source: Open Source Document “CHAPTER 14.03 MAINTENANCE OF STREETS AND SIDEWALKS Sections: 14.03.010 Responsibility for Maintenance 14.03.020 Sidewalk Construction Permit 14.03.030 Construction … [Read more…]
“While many don’t realize it, Denver homeowners and businesses are responsible for fixing cracked, busted and uneven sidewalks on their property. The city now plans to start enforcing an old ordinance to make sure repairs are made to Denver’s crumbling sidewalk system. “Citywide we have hazardous sidewalks, you’ll see it wherever you go,” said … [Read more…]
“In June, a south suburban Denver fire district filed suit against the urban renewal authority (URA) in Parker, Colorado over the diversion of property taxes to subsidize redevelopment projects. Also in June, news broke that the URA in Arvada, Colorado in the north metro Denver area sold a 9-acre parcel of land to a … [Read more…]
“On Friday, March 31, more than a year of ongoing discussions and negotiations among urban renewal stakeholders came to fruition with the introduction by Colorado State Sens. Rachel Zenziger (D – Arvada) and Beth Martinez Humenik (R – Thornton) of SB 17-279, “Concerning Clarification of the Applicability Provision of Recent Legislation to Promote an … [Read more…]
“Municipalities have been overtly abusing the broad authority given them under Colorado’s urban renewal law for decades. What was originally intended to address the problems stemming from people living in sub-standard housing amidst squalor is now almost exclusively used by politicians and planners to give public subsidies to private interests for preferred economic development … [Read more…]
“Since the sweeps began along Park Avenue West on March 8, homeless individuals have described being chased around the city by police officers, who cite Denver’s urban-camping-ban ordinance when prohibiting them from sleeping under cover anywhere in public spaces — including places like the South Platte River. Now open-records data obtained by Westword through … [Read more…]
“With the demise in this legislative session of a bill to reform the state’s construction-defects law, the campaign to provide builders some protection from lawsuits filed by aggrieved homeowners is heating up at the local level. That might be the best place for those who blame state law for the dramatic slowdown in condominium … [Read more…]
“The Colorado House has voted to end Colorado’s only-in-the-nation ban on backyard rain barrels. The bill allows homeowners to collect up to 110 gallons in rain barrels. Colorado’s rain-barrel ban is little known and widely flouted, with rain barrels for sale at many home-gardening stores and commonly used by home gardeners. But the barrels … [Read more…]
“For the second year in a row, Colorado lawmakers have introduced a bill aimed at reducing the number of construction-defects lawsuits — and hopefully increasing the number of condos built in the metro area. Senate Bill 177 would push homeowners and builders toward arbitration rather than litigation when homeowners’ units suffer from problems such … [Read more…]
“Supporters of a change to a Colorado law blamed for slowing condominium construction to a trickle are hopeful 2015 will be the year they succeed. Lawmakers have tried for the past two years to reform Colorado’s construction-defects law, which developers complain makes building condos too fraught with legal liability. Both times, the legislature came … [Read more…]