WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
9AM Golden Seniors – Coffee Klatch @ Golden Visitors Center
9-10AM Women’s Exercise and Bible Study @ First United Methodist Church
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM Wild West Short Tour
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time @ Golden Library
1:30PM Triad Senior Safety @ Jeffco District Attorney’s Office
5:30-8PM Exploring the Elements of Art @ Foothills Art Center
6:30-8:30PM Bar Bingo Night @ VFW Post 4171
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
Did you receive this email from a friend? Sign up to get your own copy!
COUNCIL COMMENTS
City Council has two email addresses (at least). Comments sent to publiccomment@cityofgolden.net before 3PM the day of the meeting are added to the City Council meeting packet (after 3PM). I’m not sure whether emails sent after 3PM make it into the public record.
Comments sent to their previous address, which was councilcomments@cityofgolden.net, are posted on the City Council page of the City’s website on Monday.
There were some interesting topics this week, including the new fencing on Clear Creek, code enforcement along the Creek, gunshots on Lookout Mountain, Council’s decision to cancel 4th of July fireworks, a request for changes to an intersection, a request that a dog park be added to the Beverly Heights Park, operation of the Ore Cart shuttle buses, and beavers along Clear Creek. Read them!
CITY MEETINGS
5PM City Council Study Session @ City Hall
As requested by Council last fall, City Staff sought proposals for an outside firm to take over parking management. They are recommending a company that will do it on a “shared revenue” basis (the more tickets they write, the more money they make). Interestingly, they plan to offer an annual pass to City residents that will allow us to park downtown for up to two hours without registering with a kiosk or an app. Staff recommends that this new system go into effect on April 1st.
Council will discuss progress and plans regarding their Affordable Housing for All goals. The State recently outlawed Golden’s 1% growth limit. The City has signed up for a State program which will provide affordable housing funding providing we increase our affordable housing stock by 3% per year.
Calvary Church and Habitat for Humanity hope to replace the house at 817 14th Street (map) with 40 permanently-affordable condominiums (20 one-bedroom and 20 two-bedroom). Each unit would have one parking spot.
The state plans to release 30 acres of state land southeast of the Lookout Mountain School for Affordable Housing projects.
Clayworks offered to provide 25 affordable units as part of their Clayworks development, but City Staff suggested they fund Affordable Units elsewhere in the City, and keep the Clayworks units at market-rate.
7PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall
The meeting will start with public comment. If you wish to address Council, be there at 7. Alternatively, you can send email to publiccomment@cityofgolden.net.
Tonight’s Consent Matters (no discussion) include: a resolution for Golden to join a mutual aid agreement with other water and wastewater utilities; a resolution to approve a $187K contract to built a new culvert under Utah Street; resolution update the City’s Emergency Operations Plan; resolution to replace the filters at The Splash at a cost of $932K; resolution to appoint a new municipal judge (replacing one who retired).
Still on the Consent Matters, they will approve of an Ordinance on first reading to amend Golden municipal code to facilitate development of affordable housing. They will also approve an Ordinance on first reading to reduce the number of parking spaces required for affordable housing projects. Both of these Ordinances will be discussed and voted on February 13th.
They will read a proclamation regarding International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
They will approve an ordinance adopting the City’s Annexation Plan.
They will approve an ordinance updating terminology in the City Charter.
They will then adjourn to an Executive Session (no public, no cameras) “to discuss the potential purchase, acquisition or transfer of two real property interests, one related to affordable housing and the other related to open space/trails and to determine positions on matters that may be subject to negotiations, developing strategy for negotiations, and instructing negotiators regarding the subject properties.”
TRIVIA
6PM Trivia Tuesdays @ Golden Mill
6:30-8:30PM Team Trivia Tuesdays @ Buffalo Rose
LIVE MUSIC
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Open Bluegrass Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
49 Years Ago
The January 23, 1975 Golden Transcript reported that Coors was looking for solutions to their parking problem.
Tourists by the thousands flock to the Golden brewery during the summers to take the company’s tour and sip a little free beer. And the firm’s main parking lot, which also must serve the employees, is getting too crowded.
“Last summer we had to turn literally thousands of people away,” the spokesman said. “The traffic was so bad it wasn’t even safe.”
Coors was considering having tourists park at their property on McIntyre Street. The downtown merchants didn’t like that idea because Coors visitors brought a lot of business to the downtown stores and restaurants.
The company had purchased the block between Ford and East, 13th and 14th Streets several years earlier. That block had held the Catholic church and Duvall-Davison lumber yard since the turn of the century, but both were torn down in 1973.
The company decided to use the 13th and Ford block. They hired parking lot attendants and bought vans to bring their visitors from the new parking lot to the tour entrance. They considered it an experiment, but by July they thought it was working well.
Apparently the system remained satisfactory, since Coors is still using that lot and shuttling visitors to the tour entrance.
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!
GOLDENTODAY IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY:
Many thanks to the people and organizations who support What’s Happening in Golden? If you would like to support local news, please CLICK HERE!
JANUARY SPONSORS: Buffalo Rose, Buglet Solar, Foothills Art Center, Golden City Brewery, Golden Cultural Alliance, Golden History Museum, Golden Super Cruise, Miners Alley Playhouse, The Golden Mill, Golden Chamber of Commerce, Golden History Tours, Morris & Mae Market, Miners Saloon, Joy and Jack Brandt, Tom Reiley, Simon Maybury, ML Richardson, and Steve Hoppin
Contributors: Greg Poulos, Vic DeMaria, Cynthia Merrill Tamny, Barry & Liz Bettis, and Steve Enger
Ongoing Monthly Supporters:
Tall Pines Painting, Baby Doe’s Clothing, Golden Community Garden, Carol & Doug Harwood, Jennings & Litz, Bill Fisher, Brian Quarnstrom, Casey & Gina Brown, Cheryl & Tom Schweich, Robert Storrs, Karen Smith, Sandy Curran, Paul Haseman, Michele Sannes, Kathy Smith, Crystal Culbert, Pat Madison, Donna Anderson, Ann Pattison, Carol & Don Cameron, Tom Hughes, Emeline Paulson, Susan Gray, David Smith, Karen Oxman, Laura King & Scott Wilson, Bill Sedgeley, Mariane Erickson, Carol Abel, Dot & Eric Brownson, Ann Norton & Jonathan Storer, Deb Goeldner, Rosemary Coffman, Jim & LouAnne Dale, Francine Butler, Elaine Marolla, Dixie Termin & Ron Miller, John & Andi Pearson, Chris Ball, Tom Hoffman, Patrick & Lisa Vitry, Alice Madison & Jim Kalivas, Lora Haimes, Nancy & Carlos Bernal, and Stephanie Painter, Holly Thomas, Julie Bartos & Brad Miller, and Bobby German and Alison McNally
PREVIOUS ARTICLES – SUBSCRIBE TO WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN
