No on 310: Protect small businesses in Denver
Re: “Bloomberg gives $1.5M to help save flavored-tobacco ban,” Oct. 9 news story
As ballots begin arriving in mailboxes, small business owners like me are standing up to a New York billionaire who has poured $1.6 million into keeping Denver’s flavored tobacco ban in place. This brings the total to more than $2 million raised to influence the outcome of Referendum 310, funding a wave of misleading ads aimed at confusing voters.
This measure gives Denver voters the opportunity to restore local control and allow the sale of flavored vape products to adults 21 and older. It is not about kids — it is already illegal to sell these products to anyone under 21. What’s really at stake is fairness for responsible small businesses and whether Denver keeps $13 million a year in local revenue that currently funds critical services like preschool, K-12, and public safety.
The No on 310 campaign is powered by Colorado-based small business owners who believe that local decisions should be made by local voters, not out-of-state billionaires. These are family-run stores that have served their communities for years and now find themselves fighting to survive against a massive, well-funded campaign that doesn’t understand our city or our economy.
Voting No on 310 protects small businesses, saves local jobs, and ensures that $13 million stays here in Denver — supporting the schools, safety, and community services we all rely on. This is about standing up for local families, local workers, and the right for responsible adults to make their own decisions.
Kristen Hensel, Denver
Editor’s note: Hensel owns Rusty’s Vape and Smoke Shop.
Yes on 310: Fight tobacco industry
In reference to ballot measure 310, the vaping ban, one needs to recognize that the addictive qualities of nicotine are only surpassed by cocaine and heroin. So ignore the subterfuge being generated by the tobacco/vaping industry.
The bottom line is that vaped nicotine produces a better revenue profile over time than cigarettes because vaping doesn’t kill off its addicts. Of course, the “industry” wants to get as many people “hooked” on nicotine as they can. Regrettably, many people will be paying for this addiction for their entire lives — much to the delight of the industry.
Please vote “Yes” on 310 to retain the ban on vaping products in Denver.
Guy Wroble, Denver
Zoning and the essence of Lakewood
Re: “Housing crunch: 2 suburbs, 2 paths,” Oct. 5 news story
The zoning issue that is engulfing Lakewood is a clash of ideas about what Lakewood should become. Many see a change to higher density as necessary to make the city vibrant and affordable, while others view density as obliterating the essence of Lakewood, that is, open space and trees — what people moved to Lakewood for.
With the proposed zoning plan, which drastically reduces the sizes of residential lots (to as small as 1,500 square feet), the city council is pitting a population that wants to live in Lakewood and buy an affordable home against people who already live there and bought specifically for larger lots.
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Denver’s Referendum 310 will determine fate of flavored tobacco sales in the city Ballots for November election will be mailed to Colorado voters starting Friday Michael Bloomberg gives $1.5 million to help save Denver’s flavored tobacco ban in election Aurora readies crackdown on ‘gray market’ products, like nitrous oxide, at vape shops and corner stores A common sight at concerts, nitrous oxide abuse is soaring, prompting health concernsIn a sense, the new zoning is a taking. An existing homeowner can still do what he wants but he has no control over adjacent properties, the size and density of which were guaranteed when he bought. Also, there is no assurance of affordability once a developer is in the picture, and the city of Lakewood has no accounting of how many affordable units have been built, at least the number has not been made public when asked in council meetings.
The burden of infrastructure — more water taps, sewage lines, and roadways — has not been figured into the densification projection (check out the traffic on Wadsworth Boulevard now).
We are told that the change will be gradual, with no bulldozers showing up en masse on January 1st. Cut to the story of the frog who does not realize he is cooking in the pot that gradually warms to boiling.
C. Greenman, Lakewood
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