WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval (Virtual)
8-8:55AM Tai Chi (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
11AM Lactation Consultant Moms’ Group @ Golden Library
Lactation Consultant Kim Mueller, MPH, IBCLC is hosting a free Mom’s Group. The group will be focused on feeding experiences, questions and resources, and forming a general supportive community for all moms who can help each other, share experiences, and build friendships.
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop (Virtual)
5-9PM Ski X Board Tune Night @ New Terrain
5-8PM Apres Wednesday @ The Golden Mill
This year, Après Wednesdays will run from January 17 – March 27 and will be bigger and better than before. Sponsored by New Belgium Brewing, join us every Wednesday from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. for live music, giveaways, ski and board tunes and happy hour all day. Show us your ski pass or lift ticket on Aprés Wednesday and get a free Fat Tire pint! Be sure to follow us on social media for more details.
6PM Avalanche Awareness with Summit Ascents International and Alpine to the Max @ Bentgate Mountaineering
6:30PM Trivia Night @ Over Yonder
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CITY MEETINGS
6:30PM Planning Commission Meeting @ City Hall
The Planning Commission will begin working on Phase 3 of their multi-year project to rewrite Golden’s zoning code. Tonight’s topics include a suggestion to simplify revising Planned Unit Developments and the possibility of banning drive-throughs.
Modifying PUDs
The City has a goal to increase affordable housing within the city limits. Approximately 48% of the City is zoned for Planned Unit Developments. The majority of these PUDs make no provision for the kind of changes necessary to include affordable housing (most often increased density). This eliminates nearly half of the city as places where affordable housing could be built.
As result, we’ve been concentrating affordable housing in the neighborhoods that were built before PUD mania set in. The Central Neighborhoods, for example, have absorbed two large-ish affordable housing complexes. The City hopes to add still more affordable housing on state land that is adjacent to the Central Neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, the PUDs such as Canyon Point, Stonebridge, Eagle Ridge, etc. are bound by their Official Development Plans, which effectively bar higher-density, potentially more affordable housing.
Staff is asking Planning Commission to simplify the process of changing those development plans. They suggest allowing the Planning Director to approve changes “administratively”–that is, without requiring PC or City Council approval.
Staff seeks consideration to increase residential density in a PUD administratively up to a threshold deemed appropriate by Planning Commission and City Council, possibly at ten percent…. Staff envisions a scenario where a limited number of additional dwelling units may be reasonably accommodated during the development phase that would further the City’s housing goals and not undermine the intent of the PUD.
Regulating or Eliminating Drive-Throughs
The Planning Commission will also discuss a suggestion made by some City Councilors that drive-throughs be more regulated (or potentially banned). Right now, Golden has a drive-up pharmacy and drive-up banks, car washes, and restaurants. The Councilors stated that drive-throughs are an auto-centric design, which might inconvenience cyclists and pedestrians. They were concerned about “environmental impact due to exhaust from idling vehicles and impact to traffic flow.”
Members of the public have expressed some concern about this proposal, saying that drive-throughs provide access to people who are mobility impaired and allow parents of young children to access goods and services without needing to get the kids out of the car and into a building.
LIVE MUSIC
4-8PM Chrispy @ Mountain Toad
5-8PM Alibi @ Golden Mill
6-9PM Jordan Yewey @ Miners Saloon
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
61 Years Ago
The Adolph Coors Co. has purchased most of the Golden city block from 12th to 13th Sts. between Ford and East St.
Colorado Transcript – January 17, 1963
The seller was the Steve Frederick Chevrolet Co. Frederick had recently sold his dealership to Chuck Stevinson, but Coors had no immediate plans to occupy the property, so Stevinson continued to operate on Ford Street until about 1970.
Prior to the Chevy dealership, that block had held a lumberyard and three houses
Still earlier, the Cambria Brick and Tile Works had been in that vicinity.
Don’t you just love old maps and photos?
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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