If you have not been able to sign this important petition to put the Henzell Park land swap to a vote of the people, please come to City Park this evening for Jazz In The Park. Circulators with petitions will be available before, during and after the concert. They can easily be spotted by their bright green tee-shirts.
All petitions will be turned in tomorrow to the Clerk and Recorders office.
Several of us, tried the Rockies game Friday night and found that most of the people are from out of town and were too focused on getting to their seats. So it is not the best use of time per our experience.
Good places for signature gathering will be the big parks such as ,Cheesman, Washington Park, City Park, Greenways, and possibly storefronts. Neighbors too!
We stopped by Washington Park yesterday evening and had good success there. Washington Park is usually jam packed on the weekends.
Sunday: Meet up at City Park we want to have as many petition circulators as possible for the thousands who attend Jazz in the Park. 5PM to 8PM .
Returning petitions
We absolutely need to have all petitions returned to 10081 East Cornell Ave, Denver Co.80231 during the following times.
Judy will be available to notarize the petitions at her home. Please call her for directions or questions. 303-667-7207
Saturday morning 8 – 12
Sunday morning 9 -12
Judy will be available for returning petitions Sunday night at City Park, “Jazz in the Park” until 8PM.
We will be turning in the petitions to the City Clerk and Recorder on Monday, July 1, 2013. This is the deadline.
Thank you to everyone for all your hard work and dedication to saving Hentzell Park
Natural Area, and continuing on with the fight.
In the bigger scheme there are other natural spaces and open areas
ready and ripe for the developers and Mayor Hancock to divvy up. We can’t stop now, nor can we accept this as our reality.
We expect to have two news releases next week documenting our next steps in the legal process.
Renee Lewis
President – Friends of Denver Park
Home 303-337-2947
Cell 970-331-6641
Donations are always gladly accepted to help with the expenses. We have a PayPal Account available on our website http://www.friendsofdenverparks.org. Also latest newspaper articles are posted there.
Good morning Friends of Denver Park,
Just a brief summary of the request for injunction proceedings 6/12-13/2013
If you want to decide a case based on the preponderance of evidence then I can say that John Case was a machine for two days. I was wore out each day as the testimony was so engaging. John just kept on and on, and didn’t let up.
The opportunity to see this experienced trial lawyer in action was an amazing privilege.
I did find Chuck Bonniwell’s testimony to be very valuable. He will be publishing an article about the hearing in his newspaper,
the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle. We really needed to establish that this area was used for recreation prior to 1955, and
he put everything in perspective easily. We knew that people rode horseback up and down the creek, and had some historical riding
stables to refer too. But he simply stated that of course people used the corridor because in a short grass prairie land environment
unless it is an irrigated area the only place that was green and full of trees was Cherry Creek or the Platte River. He also established what government experts could not was the fact that even though the City and County of Denver bought up all the food plain lands along Cherry Creek post dam collapse in 1933 to have control of the flood plain areas. Because it was the depression most lands were bought easily but not all sold the land, one in particular was the Cherry Creek Country Club
(he wrote a book on the history of the club). So Denver City and County had to buy “right of way easements”, so that people
could use the paths recreationally unimpeded.
In the meantime, some of our not so stellar city officials had some prize moments. Yes, Happy Haynes was overheard stating loudly “that son of a bitch” and stomped back into the courtroom while shaking her finger at John Case stating “how dare you “ she said more but I’m not sure exactly the words, but it was in reference to the question that John had
asked about her sister getting a position on DP&R after her deciding DPS vote. She had the hardest time recalling this information on the stand.
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