PERRY: Aurora wants better businesses on the East Colfax corridor. Better pay up

There’s a certain civic comfort in believing that if you just chase out the “wrong” kind of businesses, the “right” kind will magically show up with exotic succulents, sourdough starters and a line of Labradoodles out the door.

Aurora is flirting with that idea again.

City lawmakers are considering a plan to limit “concentrations” of vape shops, liquor stores, pawn shops and check-cashing outlets across town, but especially in supposedly sketchy parts of Aurora. It’s the usual suspects in the lineup of what polite company calls “unsavory.”…

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