An advisory board on Thursday supported the concept of admission- based events in city parks but said a policy on that subject proposed by the city’s parks officials needed to be tightened further.
Denver’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board also instructed city officials to conduct a stronger effort at soliciting input from the public on the concept.
The issue has generated so much controversy that one advisory board member, Scott Gillmore, said the council member who appointed him to the board, Michael Hancock, believes it should go on a citywide ballot for a vote of the public.
The board rejected that approach and instead instructed parks officials to keep revising the policy to try to come up with something more limited.
Critics say they fear the plan would create excessive traffic in their neighborhoods and could end up harming the parks. Parks officials think the events would attract more people to the parks and would also become a moneymaker for the city.
Christopher N. Osher, The Denver Post
