Last year, I met a real estate agent by the name of Ron Buss with Coldwell Bankers. He was referred to me by a friend. I rarely go out of my way to meet with real estate agents mainly because my time is limited and I just don’t want the brain damage. Ron was different. He was a nice guy who seemed to actually care about his clients and the community. It was a good meeting but we went our separate ways.

From time to time, I’ll pick up the Washington Park Profile a local publication when I’m at coffee shops in the Wash Park area. Much to my surprise Ron Buss was featured in an article entitled You Can’t Stop Ugly, But Can You Slow Density? by Paul Kashmann. According to the article, Ron is taking a stand against re-zoning of properties to combat scrapes in the Wash Park area.

Many people have voiced concern in recent years that the accelerated real estate values in South Denver are changing the very nature of the communities in which we live.

Once coveted bungalows are being pop-topped, scraped and replaced by homes that are not only much larger than their predecessors, but also built in a different style, using materials foreign to our early 20th century streetscape.

For well over a decade, community meetings have been called to consider first a plague of haphazardly-designed second and third story expansions (pop-tops) offensive to the eye and disrespectful of neighbors’ sunlight; and more recently, scrape-offs of (frequently) viable homes to allow for construction of much larger residences that often contain multiple units where a single family home once stood.

Rather than continue bemoaning such changes without acting, Ron Buss – a realtor and West Washington Park resident – has decided to take matters into his own hands. Buss is spearheading a movement that could lead to the downzoning of a large portion of 18 blocks of his neighborhood from R-2 to R-1, to prevent construction of multiple-family units: the duplexes, tri-plexes and even four-flexes that have become commonplace in the area.

“The problem is the rate at which change is occurring – and the accompanying change in character and increase in density,” said Buss, noting that, “from December of 2005 to now, duplexes under construction and permitted are equal to the number from the past three years.”

Keep up the good work Ron!

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