City Park neighbors packed the Ricketson Auditorium on Tuesday night demanding answers about how Tent State University is going to work and where the participants are going to sleep.
“We’re concerned about what happens if 20,000 or more people spend 2 4/7 here for five to seven days,” said Alice Kelly, a City Park Alliance board member. “I think it will be a disaster.”
Tent State University, created to demonstrate against the Iraq war during the Democratic National Convention, has been permitted by the city to use the park from Aug. 23 through 29, if the group meets certain conditions by Friday.
The meeting at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in City Park attracted 75 local residents who expressed frustration about being consulted this late in the process and worries about heavy foot traffic in the park as well as heavy traffic of all sorts between the park and downtown.
Tent State organizer Adam Jung said he plans to “work to enforce the city’s horrendous ban on camping” in the park.
