Opponents of CDOT’s I-70 Widening File Suit Against the Federal Highway Administration

A blue and red interstate sign with the words " ditch the ditch 7 0 ".

The suit takes specific aim at the agreement Denver reached with CDOT in 2015 that put local taxpayers on the hook for a project to funnel stormwater away from the 40-foot ditch the agency plans to dig to widen the freeway. The FHWA approved an EIS that did not account for the flood protection project, and the lawsuit aims to “show that both the City of Denver and CDOT intentionally hid the connection between the Platte to Park Hill Drainage Project and the Central I-70 project,” according to a press release.

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LARRY AMBROSE TO SPEAK AT CPFAN JULY 5 MEETING

HANCOCK vs. DENVER PARKS: Return control to the people.  Larry Ambrose, long time champion of Denver neighborhoods, Past President of Inter Neighborhood Cooperation (INC) , last minute write in candidate for Mayor of Denver  and leader in  Sloan’s Lake Neighborhood Assosciation  will speak at CPFAN’s July 5 meeting.  He will address the lack of citizen control over Denver Parks and he will offer some ideas about how to take it back. Now, Mayor Hancock, through his appointed Director of Department of Parks and Recreation, Happy Haynes, alone decides what is a park use. He is the  Denver Park’s Dictator. It could, and

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HISTORIC DENVER SPEAKS UP FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC CITY PARK GOLF COURSE

SUBJECT: Additional Information, Colorado Register Act Consultation, Two Basins Drainage, Platte to Park Hill Stormwater Systems Project, City Park Golf Course Redesign, City & County of Denver (CHS #70051).
Dear Ms. Hann,
We received your letter dated May 26, 2017 regarding the Platte to Park Hill project, and specifically the mitigation related to the adverse effect determination for the City Park Golf Course (5DV5310).
We agree that the mitigation items described in the letter were discussed in the meeting between CDOT, the City of Denver, the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and our office on April 13, 2017. We can also confirm that we are comfortable with the mitigation proposed for the Brick-Lined Storm Sewer (5DV11280). However, we do not believe the letter captures the full scope or
intent of the other mitigation discussed.

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