A few folks have asked me where the name Bible Flats – the neighborhood north of Highway 58 and west of Washington – came from. Of course I sent an email to Rick Gardner right quick. Rick reports that although the origin of the moniker isn’t entirely clear, he thinks it may have earned the [...]
[Continue reading…]Clean Energy Trends
March 7, 2006 Leave a Comment
Grist reported yesterday on Clean Energy’s new annual report on clean energy trends. The predictions include that the solar photovoltaics industry will grow from an $11.2 billion industry in 2005 to $51.1 billion by 2015 and that the fuel cell and distributed hydrogen market will grow from $1.2 billion last year to $15.1 billion by [...]
[Continue reading…]Main Street 101
March 6, 2006 Leave a Comment
On March 21-23 the Golden Hotel will host the Main Street 101 Training conference. Their lit explains that the Main Street Approach was developed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It’s not cheap – it looks like the general registration fee is $215 – but if you [...]
[Continue reading…]Save Money on Gas . . .
March 5, 2006 Leave a Comment
If you commute or drive your kids to school you may be interested in knowing more about DRCOG’s “RideArrangers.” RideArrangers offers help arranging vanpools, carpools, and schoolpools (to share the responsibility of driving your kids to school). They help businesses develop telecommuting programs allowing employees to work from home full-time, a few days a week, [...]
[Continue reading…]Proposed Senior Housing Exception to the 1% Growth Limit
March 4, 2006 2 Comments
As you may know, Golden is governed by a 1% annual limit on residential growth. The process (found at Chapter 18.70 of the Municipal Code) is structured so that at the beginning of every year we calculate the number of available building permits and then – more or less – issue them through the year [...]
[Continue reading…]Golden’s Brooke Sauer Makes Wrestling History
February 27, 2006 Leave a Comment
Hats off to Golden High School senior Brooke Sauer, the first girl ever to qualify for Colorado’s high school wrestling tournament. Sauer went into the Tournament with a 26-12 record. MSNBC also reported that Michaela Hutchinson of Skyview High School in Soldotna, Alaska earlier this month became the first girl in the nation to win [...]
[Continue reading…]Golden's Brooke Sauer Makes Wrestling History
February 27, 2006 Leave a Comment
Hats off to Golden High School senior Brooke Sauer, the first girl ever to qualify for Colorado’s high school wrestling tournament. Sauer went into the Tournament with a 26-12 record. MSNBC also reported that Michaela Hutchinson of Skyview High School in Soldotna, Alaska earlier this month became the first girl in the nation to win [...]
[Continue reading…]Denver Post Editorial on Toll Roads
February 26, 2006 Leave a Comment
The Denver Post today editorialized on CDOT proposals to construct toll lanes on C-470 and elsewhere. One key problem with CDOT’s proposed toll lanes on C-470, I-225, and other regional highways is that they won’t do much if anything for congestion. The basic principle is that congestion on the free lanes drives folks to pay [...]
[Continue reading…]The Denver Region Comes Up Short on Transporation Dollars
February 25, 2006 Leave a Comment
This morning I joined Mayor Baroch and Councilor Karen Oxman at the elected officials briefing sponsored by the Colorado Department of Transportation. CDOT staff gave updates on some west side projects although most won’t have any direct impact on Golden. More interestingly, Jennifer Schaufele, the executive director of the Denver Regional Council of Governments, sparred [...]
[Continue reading…]Air Pollution in Golden
February 24, 2006 Leave a Comment
I recently came across the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory web site. You can plug in any zip code – 80401, for instance – and see who is releasing what into the air. Coors, CoorsTek, Rocky Mountain Metal Container, and Trigen-Nations Energy Co. all make the list, not suprisingly given that they all include [...]
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