Residents in Denver's Overland area are adding their voices to the city's rising chorus of concerns over Mayor Mike Johnston's micro-communities plan.
The City of Denver plans to put a micro-community for 300 homeless individuals in a state-owned field next to the residents of the Overland neighborhood.
The mayor has gotten slapped with repeated criticism in recent weeks by people who feel his House1000 plan is being carried out with little consideration for the public. Residents in the Golden Triangle have already aired their grievances — bothConcerns about the size of the micro-community and how the other sites are being spread across the city have been at the top of the complaint list for most of the homeowners that.
Orr added,"If you want neighborhoods to accept and support these sites, we need to see that no neighborhoods are exempt from participating in the solution. Until then, expect to be met with resistance." Johnston's team rolled out a"pretty general PowerPoint presentation" that"mostly answered what a micro-community is" but didn't go into more detail about the specifics, Barnes says. The 300-plus capacity of the Overland micro-community is"a little concerning," she tells"There was some frustration, because we felt like that was information we already knew and not a lot of new information coming out," Barnes remembers.
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