Denver's mayor and senior advisor on homelessness heard concerns from Overland residents on Sunday about the city's first micro-community going in there.
Mayor Mike Johnston held a meeting with the residents of the Overland neighborhood ahead of fencing going in this week for a micro-community.
"There will be a fence going up around here, we'll start to see clearing and moving in preparation of this site to be built," he said."The hope is that it would be operational by the end of the year in order to meet our goal of getting 1,000 people indoors by the end of the year." Unruh sees the micro-community as bringing the possibility of attracting new uses for damaged land that will benefit the surrounding community."I have high hopes," he says."This process, as it matures over perhaps four years, will make a lot of developers think about this place. It's a good thing because this has been a fallow blight for many years."
"It will not operate like one large site with 120 units," Chandler said."It will operate like four smaller sites, four smaller neighborhoods.", the mayor said that roughly 155 units and more than 300 occupants would go into the micro-community. Chandler and Johnston on Sunday both denied ever making the claim, but Johnston did confess that he shrank the micro-community's size in response to feedback.
Each of the four neighborhoods at the Overland site will have at least two security officers on patrol at any given time, meaning the location will always have a minimum of eight people standing guard. Chandler added that even more will be at the site during the day because that's when case management services will be taking place. He stressed that the way the micro-community runs depends on the"internal policies and procedures" of whoever ends up servicing the community.
Johnston looked calm and casual during the Sunday meeting, even as one resident yelled from his patio nearby the entire hour and half that"Johnston is a liar!", says that Johnston had visited him during his campaign and promised to solve his concerns about homeless people staying in the Overland area.
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