The future of the dormant Park Hill golf course in northeast Denver is headed back to the ballot.
That 10-3 vote binds Westside and any future owners it might sell pieces of the property to an agreement that mandates 25% of all housing built there is income-income restricted affordable and that 100 acres of the land be donated to the city as parks and open space including 80 acres immediately upon the passage of the ballot measure lifting the easement.
The city can enforce the agreement through means including rejecting permits if Westside or other groups its sells to are not keeping up on building income-restricted housing, city staff remembers said. Opponents to redevelopment say that paving over even a portion of the 155-acre property would further damage the city’s environment at a time when Denver is slipping in rankings of. Redevelopment would also be a detriment to the surrounding Northeast Park Hill neighborhood, which is already at high risk of gentrification, by driving up property taxes and would create traffic burdens on neighborhood streets, they argue.
Harbaugh and many other opponents to the redevelopment accused the city and Mayor Michael Hancock specifically of steering discussions about the future of the property to an outcome where it will be redeveloped.in 2018 and 2019, campaign finance records show. The company also donated to campaigns for Flynn, Herndon, Sandoval and Councilwoman Stacie Gilmore.
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