THE CITY WANTS TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT ITS PLANS TO "REDO" HISTORIC CITY PARK GOLF COURSE.(CPGC) AND INSTALL A WASTEFUL, OBSOLETE DRAIN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpI-FKqk0Ew PLEASE DROP IN TONIGHT AND LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD Tonight, Tuesday, January 31, 5:30 - 7:30 PM City Park Golf Course Club House, 26th Ave and York St. Denver. As you know,.....Denver has plans to fence off and shut down our beloved, historic City Park Golf Course for two years, chop down 280+ trees and bulldoze the Club House that we just paid over $3M to build in 2001... for starters. They want to install a part of an industrial , already obsolete, storm DRAIN in CPGC. Of course, progressive cities have discovered that, facing climate change and drought, it is the smart thing to do to conerve rain water ... not DRAIN it out of the city. Oh well. Denver planning is stuck in 1965 mode. Go to minute 4:40 if you are in a hurry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpI-FKqk0Ew Oh, they also want to build a big, new event center + parking lot up the hill . TRAFFIC ANYONE? Mayor Hancock wants to install part of an industrial, 1965 style drainage system to keep their PROPOSED (NOT A DONE DEAL) I 70 highway expansion and Olympic Village 2026 ( area around the Western Stock Show ) from flooding. This project will do NOTHING to stop "flooding" in established neighborhoods and could even cause new flooding in some neighborhoods. However, it will eat up most of your newly assessed storm water fees for decades to come. We flood because our stormwater infrastructure is obsolete. See how it all is part of one big Boondoggle. http://tinyurl.com/za8ba7n Some suggested questions for the city ..... 1. Why are storm water fees being used as a part of a Colorado Department of Transportation highway project ? http://tinyurl.com/hnaexsr 2. Why are the lion's share of our storm water fee increases going to protect just a small part of the city when we have a back log of $1.5B in storm water needs city wide? https://vimeo.com/169650756 3. Why is most all of the "protection" of this already obsolete storm drain project going to protect property north of I 70 while Denver wants to heap the cost of the project on our established neighborhoods including historic City Park Golf Course? https://vimeo.com/169650756 and http://tinyurl.com/gqxqylt 4. Why is Denver trying to favorably compare their proposal for a storm drain in CPGC, that is not in a flood plain, with Common Grounds Golf Course(CGGC) in Lowry that is in a flood plain? CGGC flooded in 2013 AFTER it was redone by the city and it took 8.5 months for it to be re sodded and reseeded and to get back to normal . It was covered with 6- 8 feet of storm water for 3.5 weeks. When other, greener alternatives exist... why would we want that role or our beautiful CPGC? See short video: https://youtu.be/_uqD3v8HQkI 5. Why would Denver want to destroy the most modern, green, effective rain water mitigation system in the world that is already in place and would cost tax payers nothing ? Thats right, the open land with microbe rich soil, vegetation and trees found now in City Park Golf Course. https://youtu.be/gzt69QnKMFs 6. Why would we want to bring toxic storm water run off into our beautiful city Park Golf Course? https://youtu.be/vyWTRbym4v0 Would you want you kids or pets to play in this filty, toxic mess? 7. Why would we want to bring dangerous, disease carrying mosquitoes into CPGC? https://youtu.be/vyWTRbym4v0 8. Why is Denver going to put Globeville, a low income and largely minority neighborhood and site of a planned huge outfall for P2PH,back into a flood plain? http://tinyurl.com/zqj2v9e We just paid $30M to take Globeville out of the flood plain. http://tinyurl.com/hnxols6 AND https://youtu.be/U5Zy-Ms80AQ AND https://youtu.be/df_wGMWRcXs 9. Why does Denver want to dig a storm water run off ditch through the Cole neighborhood, a part of the P2PH system, under 39th Avenue that is in an un remediated part of the I 70 Valdez superfund site ? They say tha tit is "safe" to expose residents to 70 ppm of arsenic when the EPA says that they have found health impacts at levels as low as .59ppm. This is an area that has been heavy industrial gro decades. who know what they will find whey they dig just feet from homes?Roll the dice , Denver!! http://tinyurl.com/jc6hnwa These are just a few of the questions that we have about the negative impacts and concerns that resident have about destroying a perfelctly good water mitgation system in favor of a 1965 style drain that will have many negative impacts on the community and benefits for just a few. We hope to see you tonight at the City Drop In . 5:30 - 7:30 pm City Park Golf Course Club House 26th & York AVe., Denver. LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD. SEE PHOTO OF COMMON GROUNDS GOLF COURSE IN 2013 AFTER THE FLOODING.