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Mayor Coffman calls for special meeting to reconsider Aurora data center moratorium
AURORA | Mayor Mike Coffman on Thursday called for a special Aurora City Council meeting to reconsider a data center moratorium. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday to discuss a proposal from Councilmember Amy Wiles for a potentially indefinite moratorium on accepting data center applications. Coffman said in a social media post that […]
Aurora City Council moves to cut industrial water use during drought
AURORA | Amid widespread drought, the Aurora City Council is moving forward with changes to landscape requirements for industrial developments to make them more water efficient. At Monday’s study session, council discussed changes to the city’s unified development ordinance to reduce and eliminate requirements for development in industrial zoning to have certain landscaping, such as […]
Aurora Mayor Coffman seeks to halt Trident data center project after public backlash
AURORA | Mayor Mike Coffman is calling for a planned data center to be stopped after intense backlash from the local community who said they were blindsided by the project and raised concerns about health and environmental impacts. In a Facebook post, Coffman said he plans to call the Trident data center up for a […]
PERRY: If Santa Syndrome doesn’t explain city council’s reality disconnect, click thrice for more
Let’s start easy.Who believes that Santa drops into your house once a year to leave off presents, which were often made in China before Donald Trump took back the White House? Well, that’s a good start. So, how many of you non-believers set out cookies and milk on Christmas Eve? Yup. I think what’s happened […]
Aurora lawmakers urge voters to reject Prop 132 and its fentanyl sentencing mandates
AURORA | Aurora City Council members agreed Monday to ask residents to vote against a statewide proposition that would impose minimum and mandated prison sentences for fentanyl users caught with the drug in their possession. The measure to oppose Proposition 132 was approved 8-2 with some city lawmakers still insisting get-tough laws on drug use […]
Proposed Trident data center proposal in northeast sparks anger among residents
AURORA | Monday’s Aurora City Council meeting featured three hours of public comment opposing what would be Colorado’s largest data center. Around 100 residents of The Reserve, a local senior housing community, and the surrounding Windler and Green Valley Ranch neighborhoods attended the meeting to voice their concerns and disagreement with the planned Trident data […]
Aurora neighbors plan to flood City Council Monday to protest massive Trident data center
AURORA | Residents of The Reserve, a local senior housing community, and the surrounding Windler and Green Valley Ranch neighborhoods are coming together to oppose what would be Colorado’s largest data center. Neighborhood organizers plan to have about 100 people attend Monday’s Aurora City Council meeting to voice their concerns and disagreement with the planned […]
Aurora lawmakers consider council rebuke of Colorado’s Prop 132 fentanyl prison measure
AURORA | Aurora lawmakers will decide tonight whether to ask voters to vote down a statewide proposition to impose minimum and mandated prison sentences for fentanyl users caught with the drug in their possession. “Targeting those with addiction for, not even having a milligram (of fentanyl) in their possession, and saying that ‘automatically qualifies them […]
Aurora City Council nears public decorum rule changes after months of debate
AURORA | After months of wrangling, City Council policy changes about who gets to publicly address the council and for how long came closer to becoming law Monday, but some rulemaking over council decorum changes got pushed back again. City council members, primarily through a council committee, have had heated debates for months over how […]
PERRY: Who’s on first? The ‘pioneer’ and ‘native’ schtick is getting old in Colorado
To understand why Colorado’s “NATIVE” bumper sticker and “Pioneer” license plate shtick is universally despised and coveted, you have to look no further than first grade. No doubt you will recall little Becky Blisterlips annoying all her classmates right in front of the school door after recess, bragging to all who lined up behind her […]