Officials ask for feedback on City Park Golf Course stormwater detention proposal

A rendering of the proposed project for stormwater detention on the City Park Golf Course (Credit: Denver City and County)

DENVER — Denver City and County officials have spent the early portion 2016 meeting with registered neighborhood organizations to discuss a proposal for a stormwater detention cell in north Denver dubbed the Platte to Park Hill Stormwater Systems project.

Those meetings included a stop at the North City Park Civic Association’s (NCPCA’s) general meeting on Jan. 26 and a meeting at the City Park Golf.  Course on Jan. 12.

One of two currently existing proposals would call for the city to buy out over 50 property owners in the Cole neighborhood. The other would take up approximately one-third of the City Park Golf Course, significantly altering a treasure of the North City Park neighborhood.

Both proposals have been met with scrutiny by the surrounding neighborhoods to the the point that the city has offered this online form for residents to offer their comments outside of the community meetings.

Residents have until Feb. 28 to fill out the online form. Though the city has said time and again it is interested in the input of stakeholders, the city does not need any official approval to move forward with the project.

Stormwater detention proposal would level 1/3 of City Park Golf Course, including clubhouse

DENVER — The City and County of Denver is working on plans to protect North City Park from the flooding that has often plagued the neighborhood, and the severe flooding that might significantly impact the neighborhood in the event of a 100-year storm.

But it may come at the expense of one of the neighborhood’s most historic and utilized landmarks, the City Park Golf Course.

Speaking in front of a packed room in the lauded golf course clubhouse that, somewhat ironically, this project might threaten, city officials spoke in early January about the importance of detaining and directing stormwater within North Denver’s naturally existing drainage basins and historic waterways.

As of late January, the two options that remained on the table included 1) a redesign of City Park Golf Course to accommodate a large stormwater retention cell and 2) the potential creation of a detention cell in the Cole neighborhood north of North City Park.

Project management officials were scheduled to attend the North City Park Civic Association’s (NCPCA) monthly general meeting on Jan. 26. The meeting will be held at Barrett Elementary School at 6:30 p.m.

Barrett Elementary merging with Columbine; Venture Prep HS wants vacated space

DENVER — In case you haven’t heard, Denver Public Schools announced during its monthly meeting in October that several schools in the district would be consolidating. One of those consolidations involves North City Park’s own Barrett and Columbine elementary schools.

Under the plan, which is spelled out in a tad more detail here, the two schools will be housed under one roof on the Columbine Elementary School campus starting in the 2016-2017 school year, which will leave Barrett’s current building vacant.

And DPS doesn’t seem to be wasting any time in finding a tenant.

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