Joe Nguyen is a digital strategist for The Denver Post. Previously he was the online prep sports editor. Prior to that, he covered Adams County and Aurora in the YourHub section. He has previously covered Colorado’s Asian-American communities as editor for Asian Avenue magazine and AsiaXpress.com.
“No clown in our town!” residents chanted as they hoisted homemade protest signs that read, “No McDonald’s double drive-thru fast food dispensary on Castle Pines Parkway.”
Councilman Chris Eubanks said, “I am not convinced that crime would not go up, based on the fact that, as an example, the 7-Eleven on Castle Pines Parkway is one of the busiest places for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. … I submit we will see something similar.” When the golden arches were voted down, 5-2, just after midnight, the crowd cheered. But now the council must deal with the legal fallout from its crowd-pleasing decision.
As Ventana sees it, that is no reason to deny a McDonald’s. The area is zoned for business use, has been since the 1950s, but “national and local fast-casual and sit-down restaurants are uninterested in the site,” making fast food, such as McDonald’s, the best option.“If a plan for the property can be denied simply because the use would increase traffic, however infinitesimally, then no development could ever occur on the property,” Ventana said.
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