E. Colfax Ave. — Approximate Site of Proposed Sidewalk Easements
Denver City Council gave initial approval Monday to a plan that would let the city use eminent domain to seek easements at up to 39 properties near East Colfax Avenue, clearing the way for sidewalks that voters mandated nearly four years ago but that still don’t exist along stretches of one of the city’s busiest corridors.
The vote, reported by 9News, marks a significant escalation in how the city plans to finish a sidewalk network that voters first ordered built in November 2022. That’s when Denver residents approved Initiated Ordinance 307, also known as Denver Deserves Sidewalks, with 56% of the vote, shifting the cost and responsibility of sidewalk construction and repair from individual property owners to the city itself through a new enterprise fund, according to the Denver Streets Partnership…