Colorado health officials selected Aurora’s East Colfax neighborhood for the state’s first Environmental Equity and Cumulative Impact Analysis. It’s an initiative aimed at understanding how environmental stressors affect residents’ health and quality of life.
The project comes out of state efforts to address environmental justice. They will collect both scientific and community-based data to help guide future public-health decisions and investments.
Neighbors and business owners along East Colfax Avenue say the attention is long overdue.
“We’ve got a highway that divides the neighborhood. And for a neighborhood like this that is densely populated, minority-majority, there’s a lot of information that we just don’t know,” said Aaron Vega, project manager for cultural services with the City of Aurora and a Ward I resident…