5-6PM Lecture at the School of Mines: How Maps Reveal (and Conceal!) History. Hill Hall 204, 910 15th Street (map). Whether as handmaidens of diplomacy, instruments of social reform, or even advertisements, maps have been central to American history. Across five centuries, maps have captured what people knew, what they thought they knew, what they hoped for, and what they feared. As such, they have the power to both illuminate and complicate our understanding of the past. Join us as Susan Schulten explores the myriad ways that maps have both reflected and shaped American history, from the voyages of discovery to the digital age. The talk is free and all are welcome.
6:30PM The Planning Commission has a Study Session tonight, to discuss possible changes to the North Clear Creek Neighborhood Plan. In addition to the residential neighborhoods between the Creek and Highway 58, this plan includes two areas where City Planners anticipate significant change. The first is the the CoorsTek area. At some point in the next few years, CoorsTek is expected to move out of their historic downtown building in favor of newer offices in the Coors Tech Center. The City hopes to fill that area with Community Mixed Use buildings (commercial on the bottom, offices and apartments above). The second area of significant change is the Goosetown neighborhood, along 10th street, east of Ford. This area has jumped to sudden significance because Coors intends to sell their office building and the City would like to buy it for use as a Municipal Center.
Correction: a previous version of this post referred to the “North Neighborhoods Plan,” rather than the “North Clear Creek Neighborhood Plan.”
Other Wednesday Events:
10-11AM TriceraTOTs at Dinosaur Ridge Discovery Center, 17681 W. Alameda Pkwy (map)
6-7:30PM Lecture at the Golden History Museum: The Failed 1976 Denver Winter Olympics
6-7PM Bend at the Barrel – Yoga and Tea at Old Barrel Tea Company. Suggested donation is $10-15.
6:15-7:15 Backcountry 101 Session with Icelantic
6:30-8:45PM Trout Unlimited Meeting at the Mountaineering Center
Live Music Tonight:
Dirty Dogs Roadhouse – Peter Fletcher, 6-9P
Miners Saloon – Austin & Friends, 6-9PM
Old Capitol Grill & Smokehouse – Wintery Wednesdays Concert Series, 6-9PM
Rock Rest Lodge – Dave Frisk, 5-8:30PM
Thursday Preview:
9AM – Public Arts Commission
10AM – Everything Dinosaur Talk: Ceratopsian
6:30PM – City Council
Tomorrow night’s City Council meeting will cover some hot topics. They will have an executive session to talk about buying the Coors Office Building and several parcels of property in Goosetown. They will vote to introduce the possibility of a building moratorium. They will vote on whether to allow the Jefferson County Housing Authority to build over an alley and whether to allow them to begin building early–before accumulating the required 51 housing allocations.
With such an agenda, it might be easy to overlook some proposed changes to our rules for keeping backyard livestock, such as chickens, miniature goats, rabbits, chinchillas, pot-bellied pigs, and bees. Several people from the Beverly Heights neighborhood are concerned about the new rules. They want animal pens to be at least 15 feet away from neighbors’ yards; want to know the city’s policy for dealing with poor maintenance of animal pens; want to include a requirement that coops and pens be removed once the animals are gone, and want to prohibit slaughtering animals onsite. They are also concerned about an implied requirement that certain animals be kept outdoors. They point out that such animals will die in “outdoor” temperatures. So there may be some unintended consequences that Council will want to fix before approving the new rules.
