WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
8AM Saturday Morning Run and Social Walk @ Golden History Park
9AM-3PM Girl Scout Day @ Dinosaur Ridge
9:14AM-12:06PM Annular Solar Eclipse
Max View at 10:36AM
Duration: 2 hours, 52 minutes
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10AM-3PM Saturday Train Rides @ Colorado Railroad Museum
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library
11AM and 1PM Golden Cemetery Tour @ Golden Cemetery
11AM and 1PM The Legend of Sleepy Hollow @ MAP Children’s Theater
12-1PM Maximize Your Healthspan @ Natural Grocers
12-4PM 5th Annual Gluten Free Family Fun Festival @ Holidaily Brewing
1-3PM PAWS for Reading @ Golden Library
1-4PM “Knock Your Boots Off” Beer Tasting & Chili Cook-Off @ Parfet Park
This is one of Golden’s most popular events of the year! Online ticket sales are over, but there may be a few tickets available at the gate. Drop by (early!) and see!
3-6PM Pups and Pints @ Mountain Toad
6PM and 8:30PM Golden “Murder,Mayhem, and Madness” @ Golden Visitors Center
7:30PM The Cherry Orchard @ Miners Alley Playhouse
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
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LIVE MUSIC
11AM-2PM Jon Eric Farmer @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage
11:30AM Lucas Wolf @ Tributary Food Hall
1-5PM Band of Brothers @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
4-8PM Jewel & the Rough @ Wrigley’s
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
6-10PM Dave Frisk and Friends @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
7-10PM Southside Mike @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7-9PM Eric Lane @ Morris & Mae
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
75 Years Ago
The October 14, 1948 Colorado Transcript announced a public meeting about a proposed zoning ordinance. This was only one in a multi-year series of meetings on the topic.
In the 1940s, after 80 years of yearning for growth, Golden was suddenly inundated with new residents, as returning WWII veterans used the GI Bill to attend the Colorado School of Mines. The newcomers were desperate for places to live, and residents were encouraged to rent out rooms in their houses.
Colorado Transcript – August 31, 1944
MORE HOMES BADLY NEEDED
There are literally thousands of people who would like to live in Golden if they were able to find suitable quarters.
Newcomers were living wherever they could–in tents on vacant lots, in trailers parked inside the CSM Field House, and in repurposed turkey coops. This inspired city leaders in 1944 to propose a zoning ordinance, to protect homeowners from having Hoovervilles built next door.
Many property owners were worried that zoning would infringe on their rights to develop their property, and the proposed zoning regulations were shouted down in one loud and vitriolic meeting.
September 14, 1944
THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT ZONING MEETING
We haven’t met a single person who feels real proud of this meeting. Several have told us they were sorry they went so far….”
Unbridled growth continued, with no regulations on quality or placement of new structures until City Council made a second attempt to introduce zoning in 1948.
December 2, 1948
ORDINANCE IS FAVORED BY PROPERTY OWNERS
Property owners of the south Golden area voiced themselves as being in full accord with the provisions of the proposed zoning law…in fact, many property owners believed that provisions could be even more strict than proposed. This area has been designated by the planning commission as R-1. This provides for single family dwellings only, with garage. There would also be height regulations, minimum height regulations, provisions for front yard, side yard, and back yard….
After a lengthy public input process, the motion passed in April of 1949. Hundreds of zoning-compliant houses were built in the years that followed.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
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