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Follow up from Denver7 on the appeal: Filmed during the Board of Adjustments meeting
Denver7 Reporting about the Appeal: YouTube video
Article in the Denver Gazette: Proposed 500,000 square-foot warehouse in Jefferson County draws scrutiny, support
Op-Ed in the Arvada Press: President of Jeffco Economic Development Corporation and residents weigh in on proposed McIntyre development
CBS News: Jefferson County Residents protest construction warehouse-Hyatt Lake
The Guardian: When Amazon expands, these communities pay the price
Colorado Sun: A proposal to put three warehouses beside a beloved JeffCo lake is Colorado’s latest land-use battle
Denver Post: Neighborhood group demands halt to new truck-heavy distribution centers in Jefferson County
Westword: Jeffco Neighbors' Group Proposes Moratorium on "Amazon-Type" Developments
Westword: Residents Call for Public Hearings on Proposed Warehouses in Jefferson County
What People Are Saying
"Breathing in tiny particles from diesel and gasoline exhaust increases a person’s chance of getting asthma, developing cancer or having a heart attack, decades of studies have shown. Children and the elderly are particularly vulnerable. This type of pollution may also cause premature births and miscarriages.”
- Consumer Reports, as quoted in The Guardian
“Our communities are being sacrificed in the name of economic development,” says José Acosta-Córdova of Little Village Environmental Justice Organization in Chicago, one of several groups that have called for the city to pause approvals of new warehouses until there’s a plan to distribute them more evenly.”
— as quoted in The Guardian