![]() Vocal opposition has grown to the development but it also has fiercely loyal supporters."I’m aware that there are some opponents to the measure who are trying to argue that developers are pandering to LGBTQ individuals, but the fact remains that you can’t pander to a panhandler there is nothing to beg for from a beggar," Yvie said. “There’s an acute affordable housing shortage in northeast Denver, and opportunities to build hundreds of affordable units, particularly (for) our low- and fixed income neighbors in one location, are becoming exceedingly rare,” said Jeff Martinez, president of Brothers Redevelopment, Inc., in a news release. A covenant keeping the land only for use as a golf course must be removed in a vote if the property is to be developed. The latter two companies will build and own about 300 units of affordable housing on the former golf course if the project is approved by Denver voters and the City Council. Westside Investment Partners, which owns the course, has partnered with Volunteers of America and Brothers Redevelopment, Inc. Rhetoric regarding project proves intense ![]() "Clayton’s sale of the golf course site in 2019 spurred numerous ideas, conversations, debates, meetings and news stories about the future of the Park Hill Golf Course." "Since the 1980s, the nonprofit Clayton Early Learning had been responsible for the 18-hole private golf course it owned (operated by a third party), in a neighborhood that has often lacked basic amenities like grocery stores, transit options and publicly accessible open space," Councilmember Chris Herndon wrote in a preface to the project’s small area plan. Westside Investment Partners of Glendale bought the site in 2019. Finally, the council signed off on a development agreement for the property. ![]() The council voted to create five special assessment districts for the development. The council also voted for zoning changes that will allow the property to be developed with retail and homes, including affordable housing. The City Council decided to ask the voters whether to remove a covenant on the property that requires it to be a golf course. But most importantly more than a quarter of these homes would be dedicated to affordable housing, which is more than double the legal requirement." ![]() If it passes it would allow the city to repurpose 155 acres of land and build over 3,000 new homes. That’s why I’m encouraging people to vote yes on 20. ![]() "Even today many of my friends who still reside in Denver can only afford to do so because they live in affordable housing. Over the five years I lived there my roommates and I had provided shelter for around a dozen others, so it was not uncommon for our three-bedroom, one-bath apartment to be occupied by up to six or seven queer people at a time. "But it wasn’t until I secured my first stable living situation that I saw how typical my struggles were for people in the queer community. "From the age of 17-21 there were a few different periods of time I spent couch surfing because I couldn’t afford to pay rent in the city (despite working full time)," Oddly said in an email. Although a big star now, Oddly knows about housing insecurity all too well. ![]()
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