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Originally Posted by CherryCreek
I saw this article in the Denver Post about Globeville residents resisting development and gentrification.
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You have largely missed the true drama. We need to put our lawyer hats on - well mine's fake but nvm. It's a whole lot about the law-suits. Call it unintended consequences of a well-intended inclusion of a social justice component to the EIS process under Obama. Call it "Ditch the ditch" crowd falls in love with social justice crowd. Any "legal" angle we can find...
It's prolly been at least a couple of years now since a passionate core group of anti-Central 70 do-gooders has been working diligently from a number of different angles. Social Justice is but one of those but you just know they only have the best interests of the neighbors at heart; it's just a coincidence that it fits nicely into their anti-ditch, urban passions. Save the disadvantaged from yet more Urban Blight and Displacement. The gentrification noise is more a sideshow and maybe a tad counter-productive to the true cause.
I believe there are now a total of 4 different pending lawsuits opposing CDOT's Central 70 project. I'm sure our other 'resident lawyer' could provide an earful but professional standards requires we save our powder for the courtroom.
One of the believers who has been out-front with a frequent drumbeat is Streetsblog Denver's David Sachs. Just a couple of examples
HERE and
HERE.
Dang, no sooner than I had finished my comment and up pops yet
another rant on Streetsblog. I assume it's about the same article that you referenced in the Denver Post.