Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton reports on the business beat at The Denver Post. Previously, she worked in Washington, D.C., as a Capitol Hill reporter at Bloomberg Government, covering agriculture and trade policy. Megan received her master's in mass communication from Arizona State University.
Henry Navarro stands between the long black fence at the edge of Fort Logan National Cemetery and the residential area where his and his neighbors’ homes are located in Denver on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. Neighbors living adjacent to Fort Logan National Cemetery are frustrated with a decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs to expand the cemetery near their properties.
The VA says the draft environmental assessment was available for public review in September 2022, but received no comments. And a notice of availability was published in“It’s very difficult to understand, when the VA has so much land, why they’re insistent that it has to go in one of the few places where they have grass-to-grass neighbors,” resident Carol Andrew said of the planned columbarium wall. “We want what the cemetery wants. We just want it located in a place that makes more sense.
Last month, “they started tearing up, knocking down 50 trees and just leveling the ground,” Navarro said. “It’s devastating what they’ve done.” “VA is aware of concerns expressed by the community adjacent to the cemetery regarding construction plans and are considering them as we evaluate the next steps for this expansion effort,” Hayes added in an emailed statement.
“We have a robust veteran community around the cemetery, and they do a great job of supporting us,” Thomas said. “But some of them are upset and frustrated because there was no prior notification or discussions with them before the construction started.” But since the city doesn’t hold jurisdiction over the state or federal governments, council members have little influence.
In the VA’s environmental assessment, which analyzes the impacts of the proposed plan, Andrew takes issue with a line under the environmental justice section: “The surrounding area does not include residential areas.”
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