DU Makes Plans For It's - And Perhaps My - Future

The other day I picked up a copy of The Washington Park Profile (www.washparkprofile.com), the monthly neighborhood newspaper, and as usual, I turned to the University Park News column written by Diana Helper.  It turns out that the University of Denver has teamed up with the Urban Land Institute to develop a 10 year plan to help the university  "reach out to communities."  After reading this column, I checked out the University of Denver Magazine online, and there was a more in depth article in it (https://magazine.du.edu/campus-community/land-use-group-makes-recommendations-future-du-neighborhood/).  The number one suggestion of the ULI in its preliminary report is to move the University of Denver Light Rail Station to the corner of University and Buchtel Boulevards, along with shops, a hotel, and residential units.  This corner happens to be where my condo building currently sits.  Not only would I and the occupants of the other 124 units be thrown out of an affordable building in an increasingly unaffordable neighborhood if this plan is instituted, a hotel would be built that neighborhood residents have opposed for years.  Traffic and parking, already a nightmare in this neighborhood, would become even worse.  Other than that, it sounds like a fine plan.  And by the way, the above photograph is of a statute of Boone, once the mascot of the University of Denver.  However, since Boone was male, instead of gender neutral, he was deemed unfit to represent the campus, and replaced.  That's DU for you - always taking the high road.  In any case, the Urban Land Institute will present the finished report to the Board of Trustees in a couple of months.  Inviting the neighbors to the meeting, guys?