Alex Weltman

I like walkable places.

[Alex Weltman @AlexNeverTweets]

Denver's Clayton neighborhood has a wide variety of housing types. I live across the street from duplexes, next door to single family homes, and a block from two small apartment buildings. There are rowhomes on the next street. But here is the zoning code, passed in 2010. (1/9)

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@BuildUpDenver Do you know anything about the triangle shaped lot between 40th, Blake, and Walnut? It looks like they are starting work there.

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@BuildUpDenver No… but I can dream

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@ColoradoDemons @javier_mabrey Yes…? that’s how supply and demand works.

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@Axilx4 @GovofCO Rail to Craig already exists. Going to Summit would require building lots of tracks through tough terrain. https://t.co/UUDr4ZDEwQ

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@dannhave @BuildUpDenver Camden Rino's restaurant/retail space has been vacant since it opened like 5 years ago. How does that make sense? Is there a tax incentive to not lower the rent they're asking?

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@Colorado_N8tive @BuildUpDenver @RideRTD “Democrats and their regulations” - parking minimums ARE a regulation. Polis is advocating for REMOVING the regulation to allow the free market to dictate how much parking a business provides. Small government conservatives should support abolishing this onerous regulation.

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@Colorado_N8tive @BuildUpDenver @RideRTD Downtown has tens of thousands of paid parking available in surface lots and garages. Maybe you are too poor to afford those and you think the city should force businesses to give you free parking?

Minneapolis and Austin abolished parking minimums. They seem to be doing fine.

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@dbsb3233 @303FAN @SteveStaeger There are lots of nba/nhl arenas in car centric cities that are not surrounded by a sea of parking lots. AA center in Dallas, Target Center in Minneapolis, Spectrum Center in Charlotte... take a look at them on a map. No surface lots, and they don't have trouble selling out.

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@Colorado_N8tive @BuildUpDenver @RideRTD So you are more entitled to street parking when you come downtown for events than the people that live in the neighborhood? Got it.

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@glaser_chuck @AndyKnny Unbelievable that these Denver restaurants don't serve dessert. The government should force each restaurant to have at least 1 dessert on the menu.

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@Owl_Holler @davewolfusa @colewist Like literally all of Europe, Asia, and most major cities in latin america?

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@tgounley @Business_Den Couldn't they just... lower rents? Wouldn't they rather make some money than no money?

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@BuildUpDenver Now let’s put an infill station at York and 40th

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@Christi65196265 @CastellanoChels Letting the free market dictate where people live is capitalist. The government telling you who you can live with would be restricting the free market, so more communist. Hope that helps!

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@steveo2025 @davidpnut @ValdezforCO I mean… it is safe. We know this because we know when people die in fires.

By your logic, 1 stair isn’t safe enough. But then neither is 2 stairs!! I say we require multifamily buildings to have FOUR sets of stairs.

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@COoilngas7 @ValdezforCO What are you talking about? Single family homes aren’t required to have 2 sets of stairs. Hardly any do. You must live in a mega mansion.

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@RoryStolzenberg @bparnell @ValdezforCO Fair point, but if that were more dangerous, more people in the rest of the world would be dying in apartment fires than the US and Canada. Are they? Do people in Sydney die in more apartment fires? How about Liverpool? Nice? Munich? Buenos Aires? They’re doing just fine.

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@BuildUpDenver Now we just need an A line infill station at York