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This page is intended to keep the Greater Park Hill Community apprised of updates and developments regarding the future of the Park Hill Golf Course. 

7/15/2022

Steering Committee: The upcoming meeting includes an update on the community benefits agreement by James Roy of Denver Metro Community Impact.
 
PHGC Steering Committee Meeting
5:30 p.m. on Wed, Sept 7, 2022
Park Hill Golf Course Clubhouse (committee members only)
The public may view the meeting by Zoom only (register in advance here)
 

Area Plan: City staff are now reviewing the most recent public feedback from the June open house and are working on updates to the draft area plan. In the coming weeks, they will share: a draft small area plan that reflects strengthened recommendations, key themes and takeaways from comments received, answers to common questions , and continued information on next steps and how to share feedback on the draft small area plan 

Large Development Review (LDR): The city’s LDR process is required for any property over five acres in size or that has the potential for significant external impacts. The Park Hill Golf Course property owner, Westside Investment Partners, began LDR in December 2021.
 
As part of LDR, the city requires the property owner to host a community information meeting to discuss their plans with the community, to take feedback, and to answer questions.
 
Community Information Meeting
5:30 p.m. on Wed, Sept 7, 2022 (2nd rescheduled date)
Park Hill Golf Course Clubhouse
Hosted by Westside Investment Partners
 
Westside’s initial LDR application is available to view online at denvergov.org/epermits (record number 2021-LDR-0000015).

6/2/2022

Community members are invited to an in-person open house to weigh in on draft recommendations. Topics for feedback will include mobility, housing, infrastructure improvements, park space, local retail, community centers, etc.
 
3-7 p.m., Thursday, June 30, 2022
Park Hill Golf Course Club House
4141 E. 35th Ave., Denver

1/17/2022

The Steering Committee will reconvene on Jan 19th. The meeting is open for community members to observe and will include time for public comment. 

Click here for meeting info.

Per Denver Community Planning and Development:

City planners will continue working with residents in 2022 to refine the prevailing vision into a coordinated park framework and area plan detailing park size, location, and considerations for future parks and open spaces along with more detailed land use recommendations.
 
Longer term, after the community-driven guidance in the area plan takes shape, Denver City Council will vote on the plan and potentially other related actions, including an update to the conservation easement and zoning requirements that implement the area plan. When there is a clear proposal for how the conservation easement should be updated, the city will also refer the matter to a public vote in accordance with ballot initiative 301.

9/13/2021

At the community and board meeting on Thursday, September  2nd, the Board of Governors of Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. adopted a resolution in support of Initiated Ordinance 301 – Yes for Parks and Open Space – and in opposition to Ordinance 302 – Conservation Easement. The ordinance numbers are not referenced in the resolution because they had not yet been assigned when the vote took place. These initiatives will be decided by Denver voters during the November 2021 Coordinated Election. Ballots will be mailed started on October 8th and the last day to vote is November 2nd.

7/22/2021

The city hired RRC Associates, a market research firm, to conduct two public surveys on the future of Park Hill Golf Course. One survey was mailed to residents in the neighborhoods around the golf course in March 2021. The other was available online and was open to anyone, regardless of where they lived. Both surveys contained the same questions. Altogether, 1,302 surveys were completed and returned by residents who live within one mile of the golf course and an additional 1,388 online surveys were filled out by people citywide.
Upcoming Meetings:
Community Steering Committee
5:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 27
Register to watch
Sign up to speak (speaker sign-up will open at 8 a.m., July 26) 
 
Virtual Community Workshop
Tuesday, August 3
6 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
 

6/2/2021

Denver Metro Community Impact released the Park Hill Golf Course Community Voice Report which provides the results of the Community Navigators’ efforts.

5/17/2021

In April, Dr. Dwinita Mosby Tyler announced that she was stepping back from the Community Steering Committee to focus on her health. Dr. Ryan Ross has been selected as her replacement for this work.
 
 
All steering committee meetings are open to the public to observe and recordings are available. Now the community steering committee meetings will also include public comment.
 
 
Next Community Steering Committee meeting:
Tuesday, May 18
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
 

3/3/2021

The  next Community Steering Committee Meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 9 from 5:30pm-7:30pm.  All steering committee meetings are open to the public to observe. Recordings will be available if you can’t make the meeting time.


City planners from Denver Parks and Recreation and Community Planning and Development will provide a public update on the Park Hill Golf Course visioning process and will answer questions at a Virtual Public Open House on Thursday, March 25 from 5:30pm-7:30pm. 
Click here for more information and meeting registration.

Community navigators began meeting with residents in February. To date, navigators have hosted four Park Hill Golf Course Talks, which are small group conversations of around 8-12 people, and approximately 20 one-on-one conversations. These conversations will continue throughout March and April. Denver Metro Community Impact expects to release a full report in May detailing this work for the public.
Learn more here.

2/17/2021

Steering Committee update courtesy of GPHC’s  representative, Shanta Harrison.

The committee held its first meeting on February 9, 2021 at 5:00 PM. Watch the recording of this meeting on YouTube.

Facilitator Nita Mosby Tyler spent the first hour speaking to the group and allowing brief discussion about equity – how it is defined, and its relevance to the process that the steering committee is undertaking.  

The next several minutes were allotted to James Roy II of Denver Metro Community Impact, who briefed the participants on the role of the Community Navigators – members of the community who will be charged with community outreach activities on the ground, operating separately from the steering committee.  The navigators themselves were not identified at this time.  It was revealed however, that those chosen as Navigators would be paid for their services.

The final minutes of the meeting were spent discussing portions of the agenda for the next meeting, which will include drafting a charter for the group. The next meeting is tentatively set for March 9, 2021.

2/3/2021

The Community Steering Committee has been selected and will conduct their first meeting on Tuesday, 2/9/21 from 5pm-7pm. All steering committee meetings will be open to public observation. 
More about the Steering Committee here.

Community Navigators are currently being selected through Denver Metro Community Impact. 
More about Community Navigators here.

1/8/2021

Courtney Levingston and David Gaspers, planners with the City and County of Denver, presented at the GPHC Community Meeting on 1/7/2021 to outline the visioning process that will be taking place this year. The steering committee selection is in progress. Additionally, the City has contracted with the Denver Foundation and Denver Metro Community Impact as non-profit partners to administer “community navigators” as part of the visioning process. 

View presentation slides here.

Review Non-profit partners contract here.

More preliminary information can be found here.