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Community Noise, GURA Past, and Parking Requirements

Golden Eye Candy – Nancy Bureson – Winter is Coming – enlarge

What’s Happening in Golden Today?

6-6:55AM Dynamic Circuit (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)8:30AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour (1 hour)
9-11AM Community Noise Roundtable Monthly Meeting (Virtual)
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking Tour (2 hours)
10:15-10:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
12-12:30PM Mondays with Mayor Weinberg (Virtual)
2-3PM Active Minds Mondays – Greece (Virtual)
4-4:30PM Kids Martial Arts Class (Virtual)
6:30PM Golden Anti-Racism Collective Policy & Policing

6:30PM GURA Board Meeting @ City Hall
The Golden Urban Renewal Authority will discuss their budget for 2023, including the cost of having the City provide administrative functions. They will begin discussion of their 2022 Annual Report. Looking on their webpage, I was unable to find a 2021 report, but the 2020 report is available.

In looking through my old files, I found some of the annual reports from the years when GURA was working downtown. They did a lot to revitalize downtown, including facade grants, business assistance, website development grants, energy efficiency grants, streetscape upgrades, sidewalk improvements, ornamental streetlights, decorative banners, marketing and special events funding, installed bike racks, built parking garages, paid for holiday lighting, helped fund the mountaineering museum, provided annual funding for Miners Alley Playhouse, put temporary murals on downtown buildings, funded a shop local campaign, sponsored parades and film festivals, provided wayfaring signage, and built the arch at 13th and Ford. See some of the highlights: 2004 GURA Annual Report2005 GURA Annual Report2006 GURA Annual Report2007 GURA Annual Report2008 GURA Annual Report2009 GURA Annual Report


Golden History Moment

Downtown Parking – enlarge

By 1975, Golden had been experiencing chronic parking shortages for half a century. Prior to that year, decisions as to required parking had fallen to the city engineer.

47 Years Ago
The November 14th, 1975 Golden Transcript announced that City Council had approved new parking resolutions, which would apply to new construction. The requirements included:

• Single family homes: minimum of 1 off-street parking space

• Apartments: 1-2 bedrooms minimum of 1.5 spaces, 3 or more bedrooms minimum of 2 spaces

• Offices, banks, clinics: 1 space per 300 square feet

• Stores: 1 space per 250 square feet

• Restaurants, bars, theaters: one space for each 3 seats

• Hotels: 1 space for guest unit and 1 for each two employees

• Industries: 1 space for each two employees

• Churches: 1 space for each 4 seats

• High schools and colleges: 1 space for each two students

The ordinance also included provisions requiring loading zones.


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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