Coronavirus/COVID-19
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JCPHD updates these numbers Monday through Friday at about 3 PM. Here’s the most recent Coronavirus report from Jeffco Public Health’s Case Summary Page:
Cases in Jeffco – Mon: 9,941 | Tues: 10,209 (+268)
Deaths in Jeffco – Mon: 320 | Tues: 333 (+13)
Ever Hospitalized in Jeffco – Mon: 738 | Tues: 746 (currently 73) (+8)
Recovered – Mon: 7,634 | Tues: 7,796 (+162)
Known Cases in Golden – Mon: 324 | next update Weds PM
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Virtual Golden
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10:15AM Baby Time with the Library
10-11:30AM Everything Dinosaur Talk – Thyreophora Part 2 (Ankylosaurs)
6-8PM Golden Young Professionals Book Club
6-7:30PM Golden United Housing Task Force Meeting
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6:30PM Planning Commission Meeting
The Planning Commission will decide three cases tonight. If they are all accepted, they will result in a new duplex, 5 new townhouses, and 8 new one bedroom apartments. I didn’t see anything in the meeting menu about the 1% growth limit, but presumably this means 15 housing allocations would be used on these projects.
Two of the projects require Special Use Permits for building 100% residential in a mixed use zone. Mixed use zones are intended to include both commercial and residential uses. This ties in with the New Urbanist ideal of having businesses within walking distance to homes, so people will walk more and drive less. People usually illustrate this in terms of a neighborhood coffee shop which provides nearby residents with a place to meet.
Residential building is very profitable in Golden in the current market, so developers often buy property in mixed use zones and then ask the Planning Commission for a Special Use Permit to allow them to forego the commercial aspect and just build 100% residential.
In the first case, the owners of the empty lot at 14th and Cheyenne plan to build a duplex in a mixed use zone and require a Special Use Permit to do so.
The second case concerns the corner at 21st and Ford, which currently contains a small commercial building. The plan is to replace it with a larger commercial building and 5 townhouses. The townhouses will all be on individually owned lots, and each will be 100% residential, so those will each require a Special Use Permit.
The third case concerns the corner of 14th and Jackson. This developer proposes turning the existing house into a 3-room tourist home (short-term rental) and building 8 new one bedroom apartments south of the house. In this case, the tourist home supplies the commercial component and the 8 apartments provide the residential aspect, so no Special Use Permit would be required.
Real World Golden
9AM Golden Walks
3:30-4:30PM Vaccine, License & Microship Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
Golden History Moment
For today’s History Moment, I’m offering flashbacks to three previous articles that relate to current redevelopment projects in Golden. You’ll need to scroll down to the history part of each of these posts.
The first concerns a home that was just demolished to make way for the Jefferson County Housing Authority project at 24th and Ford: Frontier Justice (published on May 16th).
The second mentions one of the previous uses of the small commercial building at 21st and Ford (see case #2 above): Much Ado About Golden Groceries (published on May 17th).
The third explains why the block at 14th and Jackson is triangle-shaped instead of square: An Underground Waterway (published on April 25th).
