Artsweek Golden is rolling merrily along. This is the last day that painters will be working in Lions Park and downtown Golden. Their paintings will be on display tomorrow night in the courtyard at Foothills Art Center. GoFarm will be demonstrating culinary arts tonight at their pickup locations (10th and Jacson, 3:30-6:30 and 750 Warner Dr, 3:30-6). The Public Art Commission will host a reception for community members from 6-8PM at Foothills Art Center. If you attend, you can discuss our past, present, and future public art projects with the decision-makers. NOTE: The Miners Alley performance tonight has been cancelled.
Golden River Sports is having a fly-tying gathering from 6-9 this evening at Mountain Toad Brewing.
I’m sorry to say that tonight’s Jeffco Open Space talk about Rattlesnakes is full.
The Planning Commission will have a study session tonight at 6:30 in City Council chambers. They will consider which neighborhoods need new planning documents, which existing neighborhood plans need to be updated, and which ones need to be updated first. They will review a very interesting memo that the residents of the North Neighborhoods put together to describe changes they want in their neighborhood plan. Like the Central Neighborhoods residents, the North Neighborhoods folks have had some unpleasant shocks lately, as small houses have been demolished and much-larger modern houses have replaced them. The memo from the residents provides many thoughtful suggestions with the goal of preserving property development rights without crushing the rights of the surrounding neighbors.
Finally, they will consider the nature of “neighborhood markets.” These are new idea, added to city code about a year ago, designed to encourage the sale and availability of fresh produce by allowing them to be set up in residential neighborhoods. We currently have two neighborhood markets with a third on the way. There is some demand to start selling non-produce at those markets, such as jerkey, dried fruit, pet food, jewelry, crafts, etc. This seems like a nice idea, but it does not fit in with the intention of the regulation, which was to increase availability of fresh produce. The city attorney has suggested a compromise, which will require that at least 75% of the items sold at the markets be fresh produce. To learn more about any of the meeting topics, check the meeting packet on the city website.
