“How Green is Denver if You’re Black? These Residents are about to find out”
The Guardian
18 May 2021
“In 2019, two weeks before Westside bought the golf course, the governor of Colorado signed a law to make it much harder to nix easements, and requiring district court approval. The chief architect of the revisions says they were designed specifically to stop cities – like Denver and Boulder – from walking away from their role in upholding easements.
‘We decided, an easement is an easement, and everyone should have to follow the same rules,’ says Erik Glenn, head of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust. ‘If you’re going to try to extinguish, you have to get the court’s blessing.’”
The Guardian
18 May 2021
“In 2019, two weeks before Westside bought the golf course, the governor of Colorado signed a law to make it much harder to nix easements, and requiring district court approval. The chief architect of the revisions says they were designed specifically to stop cities – like Denver and Boulder – from walking away from their role in upholding easements.
‘We decided, an easement is an easement, and everyone should have to follow the same rules,’ says Erik Glenn, head of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust. ‘If you’re going to try to extinguish, you have to get the court’s blessing.’”