No on 310: Defend small companies in Denver
Re: “Bloomberg offers $1.5M to assist save flavored-tobacco ban,” Oct. 9 information story
As ballots start arriving in mailboxes, small enterprise house owners like me are standing as much as a New York billionaire who has poured $1.6 million into maintaining Denver’s flavored tobacco ban in place. This brings the entire to greater than $2 million raised to affect the end result of Referendum 310, funding a wave of deceptive advertisements geared toward complicated voters.
This measure offers Denver voters the chance to revive native management and permit the sale of flavored vape merchandise to adults 21 and older. It’s not about children — it’s already unlawful to promote these merchandise to anybody underneath 21. What’s actually at stake is equity for accountable small companies and whether or not Denver retains $13 million a yr in native income that presently funds essential providers like preschool, Ok-12, and public security.
The No on 310 marketing campaign is powered by Colorado-based small enterprise house owners who imagine that native choices must be made by native voters, not out-of-state billionaires. These are family-run shops which have served their communities for years and now discover themselves combating to outlive towards an enormous, well-funded marketing campaign that doesn’t perceive our metropolis or our economic system.
Voting No on 310 protects small companies, saves native jobs, and ensures that $13 million stays right here in Denver — supporting the colleges, security, and neighborhood providers all of us depend on. That is about standing up for native households, native staff, and the best for accountable adults to make their very own choices.
Kristen Hensel, Denver
Editor’s word: Hensel owns Rusty’s Vape and Smoke Store.
Sure on 310: Struggle tobacco business
In reference to poll measure 310, the vaping ban, one wants to acknowledge that the addictive qualities of nicotine are solely surpassed by cocaine and heroin. So ignore the subterfuge being generated by the tobacco/vaping business.
The underside line is that vaped nicotine produces a greater income profile over time than cigarettes as a result of vaping doesn’t kill off its addicts. After all, the “business” needs to get as many individuals “hooked” on nicotine as they’ll. Regrettably, many individuals can be paying for this dependancy for his or her whole lives — a lot to the delight of the business.
Please vote “Sure” on 310 to retain the ban on vaping merchandise in Denver.
Man Wroble, Denver
Zoning and the essence of Lakewood
Re: “Housing crunch: 2 suburbs, 2 paths,” Oct. 5 information story
The zoning concern that’s engulfing Lakewood is a conflict of concepts about what Lakewood ought to grow to be. Many see a change to increased density as essential to make town vibrant and reasonably priced, whereas others view density as obliterating the essence of Lakewood, that’s, open area and timber — what folks moved to Lakewood for.
With the proposed zoning plan, which drastically reduces the sizes of residential heaps (to as small as 1,500 sq. ft), town council is pitting a inhabitants that wishes to dwell in Lakewood and purchase an reasonably priced house towards individuals who already dwell there and acquired particularly for bigger heaps.
In a way, the brand new zoning is a taking. An current house owner can nonetheless do what he needs however he has no management over adjoining properties, the scale and density of which had been assured when he purchased. Additionally, there isn’t a assurance of affordability as soon as a developer is within the image, and town of Lakewood has no accounting of what number of reasonably priced models have been constructed, at the least the quantity has not been made public when requested in council conferences.
The burden of infrastructure — extra water faucets, sewage strains, and roadways — has not been figured into the densification projection (take a look at the visitors on Wadsworth Boulevard now).
We’re informed that the change can be gradual, with no bulldozers displaying up en masse on January 1st. Reduce to the story of the frog who doesn’t notice he’s cooking within the pot that steadily warms to boiling.
C. Greenman, Lakewood
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