As I make the right turn onto 14th Street on my way to the bookstore where I work, I can't help but notice the house in the photograph on the left, which sports several signs in the front yard opposing two related proposals by the City of Denver. The first sign extols everyone to "Save City Park Golf Course," which refers to Mayor Michael Hancock's plan to take 50 acres of this site and put in an industrial storm drainage sump, cutting down several hundred trees in the bargain. All of this is necessary to support a plan to rebuild a portion of Interstate 70 underground, and keep the new interstate from flooding.
The other sign in the yard says "Don't Flood Globeville." Globeville, by the way, is a poor community north of Interstate 70, near the Denver Coliseum, which is home to the National Western Stock Show. This issue is connected to the same project threatening City Park Golf Course, a storm water project that will greatly increase flood risks in the area. Not only that, but this water is highly toxic and the construction will endanger the health of the people living in the area, not to mention the entire population of Denver. This was something I was totally unaware of until now. I guess yard signs do work.
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