CPFAN Annual Meeting Goes Electronic!
City Park Friends and Neighbors (CPFAN) will not hold its Annual Meeting on Monday, April 6. Our usual meeting place, Messiah Community Church will be closed. Our speaker for the meeting, Adam Smith, Superintendant, Denver Parks and Recreation, is not able to attend due to new city policies arising from the coronavirus pandemic. This program will be rescheduled. CPFAN is a membership-based Registered Neighborhood Organization with 500 members. We hold annual meetings to elect the coming year’s board members and officers. All members are welcomed to attend our annual meetings and vote on the year’s slate of board members. Nominations
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Read moreCPFAN Request for ECAP Comment Period Extension, Problems with ECAP Planning Process and PUMA Contract Non-Performance
ARTICLE III RNO Ordinance – City Charter PUMA Prof Svcs-Agreement – PUMA-and_City-County-Denver Dear Denver City Council Members, City Planners and Auditor O’Brien: I am the president of City Park Friends and Neighbors (CPFAN), a delegate to Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation (INC), a member of Congress Park Neighbors, Inc.(CPN) and a 40 year resident of Congress Park. I have known about the East Central Area Plan (ECAP) for almost 2 years and attended many meetings with City Planners. My comments reflect these experiences, conversations with residents and leadership of many ECAP Registered Neighborhood Organizations (RNOs) and observations of City Council Meetings. My
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Read moreColor Fields Denver At The Lily Ponds
City Park Friends and Neighbors has received a PS You Are Here grant from Denver Arts and Venues to sponsor an art installation in City Park at the Lily Ponds located SW of the Museum of Nature and Science. The project, Color Field at the Lily Ponds, was conceived of by Denver artists, Sarah and Josh Palmeri to draw attention to the historic Lily Pond space through a colorful, site-specific installation of roughly 6,000 painted gardening stakes in the seedbeds of the drained pond. The six uniquely shaped seedbeds will transform into abstract forms of bright colors, recalling the history
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On February 4 at Messiah Community Church, City Park Friends and Neighbors launched its newest project, Color Field with a public program presented by Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator and Outreach Director for Denver Botanic Gardens. The program and slideshow, “Saco De Boer and the Visionaries Who Shaped Our Western Gardening Philosophy,” highlighted famed Denver landscape architect Saco DeBoer who designed the Lily Ponds at City Park in 1925. In 1970, a severe storm flooded the area, and the ponds have since been waterless (with one exception) with the sandstone seedbed walls exposed.
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Read moreCity Park Master Plan Update and Design Guidelines Program
Denver Museum of Nature and Science February 22, 10 am-noon VIP Room This is an important meeting for City Park lovers! Mallory Bettag, East Denver Parks District Planner will present a program reviewing the City Park Master Plan Update and Design Guidelines for City Park, the “People’s Park” and the “Crown Jewel of the Queen City.” There will be a description of the City Park Design Advisory Committee composed of architects, officials and citizens that meets to review proposed projects for City Park to DPR. Peggy Day, Director of Strategic Planning for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science will speak about the museum’s Nature
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