Coronavirus/COVID-19
Public Health References
CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden
Jefferson County is at Level Red, “Severe Risk.” Here’s the most recent Coronavirus report from Jeffco Public Health’s Case Summary Page:
Cases in Jeffco – Mon: 26,029 | Tues: 26,244 (+215)
Deaths in Jeffco – Mon: 572 | Tues: 585 (+13)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Mon: 180 | Tues: 192 (+12)
Known Cases in Golden – Mon: 868 *
* Per the JCPH website, Golden cases will be updated on Monday and Thursday. The other stats will be updated Monday through Friday.
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Virtual Golden
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10-11:30AM Everything Dinosaur Talks – Archosaurs
10-10:30AMTriceraTOTs – Dinosaur Holiday Ornament with Dinosaur Ridge
10:15AM Baby Time with the Library
5:30-7:30PM Golden Orators Toastmasters
6-7:30PM Community Conversation: Let’s Talk About Language Justice – library
6:30PM Planning Commission Study Session
The Planning Commission will discuss raising our sustainability requirements. The meeting packet also includes a draft of the goals for 2021, which are as follows:
First Tier Goals
• Code Audit and Rewrite process. This will continue to take a significant amount of staff time and PC involvement throughout 2021, with drafts and refinements that will lead to hearings on code adoption. The Subdivision Ordinance (Title 17) will need to be updated in conjunction with Title 18. “Second wave” code changes will likely be needed later in the year as well.
• Explore feasibility of an affordable ADU program that allows ADUs to be financed, constructed and utilized as true “affordable” units by definition.
• Explore feasibility of a community land trust for creating affordable housing solutions.
• Begin a Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan process to exist within or alongside the Transportation Master Plan with MTAB (subcommittee).
• Evaluate Sustainability Menu and opportunities to turn many options into requirements, as well as strengthen requirements.
Second Tier Goals
• Initiate a new neighborhood plan if time allows. Perhaps an update to the North Neighborhoods Plan, which could focus on things like ideas on future rezoning of PUD zoned areas that do not fall under the Code Rewrite standard zone districts.
• Allocations discussion regarding Boarding House commercial vs. residential if Council is amenable to proceeding.
• Discuss code enforcement process and improvements.
• Evaluate Historic Design Guidelines in conjunction with Historic Preservation Board’s effort to overhaul this document in parallel with code rewrite process.
Real World Golden
9AM Golden Walks
10AM-5PM Holiday Art Market
Golden History Moment
45 Years Ago
Do you recognize the structure shown in the photo above? That’s the gazebo that was–until recently–in the back yard of the Astor House. The December 16, 1975 Colorado Transcript reports on its construction.
Gene Child of Golden Landmarks Association spearheaded the effort to rebuild a gazebo that had stood in the yard in the early 20th century. The gazebo was later turned into a storage shed, and remnants of the shed were still in the yard when the City acquired the property in 1972. Gene used those remnants to determine the dimension of the original structure.
GLA received a $2,000 grant from the Colorado Centennial/Bicentennial Commission to fix up the “Golden Legislative Park” (backyard of the Astor House), including the gazebo. Gene appealed to Warren Tech school for carpentry help. The students built the structure at the school. The City moved it to the park, and Golden High School Key Club members provided the muscle to move it into position.
“I think it adds a lot to the park,” Childs said, wiping his brow after completing work on the gazebo. “On a nice day it will give somebody a good place to take a lunch break.”
After the Astor House Museum was dismantled, the little park went through a period when no one was claiming or maintaining it. It was filled with weeds and strewn with empty liquor bottles. When the City cleaned it up, they decided the gazebo was too attractive to partiers, so they removed it.
Many 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!
