The Denver City Council created a district Monday that will levy a fee against property owners to pay for maintenance of $2.1 million in improvements along Tennyson Street in northwest Denver.
Property owners will pay about $13 a year per linear foot of property to maintain the improvements along Tennyson Street between West 38th and West 44th avenues.
The improvements will include such things as decorative sidewalk paving, curb edging, street furniture, tree grates and trees as well as pedestrian lighting.
The improvement money was included in the bond improvement campaign voters approved in 2007. The city requires the establishment of a local maintenance district to pay for maintaining the improvements.
In other action, the council approved a plan designed to guide how development should occur in areas surrounding a new FasTracks light rail station to be built along Fifth Street near the Auraria Higher Education Center campus.
Plans call for a “campus hot spot” on Fifth Street with new commercial and retail buildings and a nearby mixed-use entertainment district that would include venues such as a pool hall, a bowling alley and a movie theatre.
Christopher N. Osher: 303-954-1747 or cosher@denverpost.com
