It’s not just about the murals this time: Progress on the Mestizo-Curtis Park Pool project stalled on August 5, after a passionate outcry from current and former residents of the historic Curtis Park neighborhood during a Landmark Preservation Commission hearing.
The hours-long meeting of the LPC, which falls under Denver Community Planning & Development, began with questions and comments from residents — well over thirty minutes of them. Some objected to specific design elements: a curb-cut that might prove dangerous to pedestrians and kids, the moving of the pool entrance from inside the park to street-side, and other safety elements.
There were also more complaints about why Emanuel Martinez’s “Eyes on the Park” mural couldn’t be preserved. As resident Eileen Feltman put it: “If blocks can be cut out and preserved for Banksy and the Berlin Wall, the same can happen here.”…