Jolon Clark
Today’s Your Chance to Speak Up for Affordability and Against Parking Mandates
We'll find out tonight if the City Council will make housing more attainable and neighborhoods more walkable, or if elected officials will make free, on-street car storage even more plentiful.
May 1, 2017
Jolon Clark Is Letting the Parking Lobby Dictate Denver’s Housing Policy
The Denver City Council voted 7 to 6 Monday to advance a law that will raise housing costs by compelling the construction of parking spaces on small lots. The zoning amendment from Council Member Jolon Clark will require parking where none was required before, stifling walkable development and generating more car traffic. With that vote, the … Continued
April 4, 2017
Speak Out Today Against Jolon Clark’s Bid to Make Denver Less Affordable
More parking requirements are coming. The only question now is, how far in the wrong direction will City Council steer this ship?
April 3, 2017
City Council Caves to the Anti-Housing, Pro-Parking Crowd Again
It's 2017. The question of whether cities should require developers to build parking has been settled. They should not. But here in Denver, the City Council is moving in the opposite direction.
February 23, 2017
Council President Albus Brooks Calls for New Source of Transportation Money
If funding for sidewalks and bike lanes continues at the rate laid out in Mayor Michael Hancock’s 2017 budget, Denver won’t see a fully built-out bike network for many decades, and won’t have a complete sidewalk network for nearly two centuries. Hancock proposed a paltry $2.2 million for Denver Moves, the city’s blueprint for a … Continued
September 28, 2016
Denver Council Weighs Three Options to Fix Broken Sidewalk Network
Yesterday the City Council finally dug into the question of how to complete Denver’s patchwork sidewalk network. Sidewalk construction and maintenance currently falls entirely on individual property owners. It’s a policy designed to fail, with many people unable to afford sidewalks, and the quality of the pedestrian environment suffering as a result. People pay with their lives. … Continued
August 11, 2016
Will Denver’s Leaders Stick With the Broadway Bike Lane in Crunch Time?
On Friday, Denver Public Works and BikeDenver showed the city how converting one motor vehicle lane to a protected bike lane on Broadway could improve safety for everyone who uses the street. The temporary, three-day demo was the beginning of a larger bid to give people on bikes a safe north-south route through the city, and make Broadway less of a … Continued
September 28, 2015