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vveca officers
President
Scott Whitfield // 303 919 7967
scott.whitfield@whitfieldre.com
Vice President
H. Christine Richards // 720 363 6531
hchristine1980@hotmail.com
Secretary
Paul Sullivan // 720 280 8357
pmmsullivan@yahoo.com
Treasurer
Jimmy Hackbarth
Delegate at Large
Beth Trudgeon // 303 756 3402
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community links
Emergency 9-1-1
City Services 3-1-1
Police 720 913 2000 // non-emergency,
crime NOT in progress
Denver Police Liaison Officer Mike
Borquez // 720 913 1183
Neighborhood Inspections 720 865 3200
// Zoning, unshoveled snow, weeds taller
than 6 inches, unsightly properties
Household Hazardous Waste Collection
800 449 7587
Power Failure 800 895 1999
Paul Kashmann // City Council District 6
// 720 337 6666
Pat Steadman // District 31 State Senator
// 303 866 4863
Irene Aguilar // District 32 State Senator
// 303 866 4852
Paul Rosenthal // District 9 State Representative //303 866 2910
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Krisana Park Conservation, Cont.
Continued from page 6
Summer 2016 // www.virginiavillage.org
was made, seconded and passed by
the committee by a vote of 24 in favor and 1 abstention:
in this issue
Inter-Neighborhood
Cooperation
should express to the Planning Board
and City Council that it supports the
establishment of Krisana Park Conservation District 5 because it is strongly
supported by the neighborhood and
it will help to conserve an important
affordable mid-century modern architectural style in Denver.
Krisana Park Conservation
Efforts Underway // Page 6
Meet VV Homebrewer Mark
Honhart // Page 2
Discover Denver in Virginia
Village to Document Buildings
in the Neighborhood // Page 7
Next steps in the amendment process
include: (dates subject to change)
• Public Review Redline Draft posted on the CPD website and informational notice sent to RNOs
(mid- August) www.DenverGov.
org/TextAmendments
• Planning Board Public Hearing
(mid- to late September)
• City Council Committee meeting
(mid-October)
• City Council First Reading (late
October)
• City Council Public Hearing and
decision by City Council (late November)
Following City Council approval, Mayor Michael Hancock must sign the
Amendment for the Zoning Code Text
The low-profile of Virginia Village homes is
reflected in local artwork // kennybe.com
and Map to be amended and make
the Krisana Park Conservation Overlay District (CO-5) part of the Denver
Zoning Code.
If you have any questions, please
contact
virginiavillageorg@gmail.
com to be connected with Kate Adams, and the Krisana Park team leading this effort.
Historic Denver, a local historic preservation organization, has also created
a pattern book to help residents update their home in ways that reflect
the historic nature of this neighborhood. You can order a copy of the
pattern book here: www.historicdenver.org/programs/pattern-and-design-idea-books.
Summer 2016 // Virginia Village/Ellis Community Association // www.virginiavillage.org // 8
King Soopers opening day at Belcaro // Denver Public Library Western History Collection
Belcaro’s Link to the Broncos
upcoming
meetings
VV Quarterly
Community Meeting
It isn’t easy to fly by it on Colorado Boulevard with all the traffic these days,
but Belcaro Shopping Center can
get lost in all the development going
on right now along Virginia Village’s
western border. If you look closer at
the shopping center and the stucco-backed nameplates that adorn
it, however, you’ll notice pediments,
pilasters and plinth blocks on some
of the shop entryways, an odd rustic
door near the Northern entrance to
King Soopers, and a colonial cupola
and weathervane rising from the middle of the shopping center.
west side, including the former Bridge
language center and a church. It is
an island of Colonial Revival in a sea
of largely modern ranch homes and
new shopping facilities.
People who have lived in Virginia Village a long time always talk about
Belcaro Shopping Center like it just
has always existed; it’s just always
been there along with King Soopers.
But it had to start somewhere, right?
Which leads to the obvious—but generally interesting—question of: Who
created this colonial oasis?
Every Monday at Potenza Park
// Contact Diane Wolta for
times at 303 548 0523
These features have always intrigued
me—they are hints of Colonial Revival, but definitely with a mid-century
flair. The shopping center is part of a
bigger collection of colonial buildings
strung along Colorado Boulevard’s
On March 14, 2008, Catellus Development Corp. sold the Belcaro Shopping Center to Cincinnati-based
Kroger Cos.—one of the largest grocery retailers in the U.S. and owner/
Sept. 24 // 2:00 pm // Contact
Kristi Brubaker for details at
vavillagecommunityhops@
gmail.com
Featuring Denver Police, City
Councilman Paul Kashmann,
Historic Denver // Virginia
Village Library // 1500 S.
Dahlia // Sept. 14 // 6:30 pm
Bocce Ball
VV Community Hops
Homebrew Tour
Continued on page 4
A publication of the Virginia Village/Ellis Community Association
the village voice
Neighborhood
Homebrewers
Drive Community
Hops Program
For the Virginia Village Community
Hops Program we decided to catch
up with one of our local neighborhood homebrewers, Mark Honhart,
for his favorite brews and an awesome beer recipe. Mark and his wife,
Karen moved to Krisana Park in October 2003. Check out those beer taps
in his kitchen below!
Virginia Village homebrewer Mark Honhart
When did you start brewing?
August 28, 1991. Dogbolter’s Ale.
What inspired you to start brewing?
In the late-1980s and early 1990s, good
beer was hard to find. Climbing trips
to Oregon with my brother opened
our world to high-quality ales. After
our return, my brother brewed the first
batch of homebrew and showed me
it was possible. However, him being
my younger brother, I could not allow that to go unanswered and took
up the charge myself. I learned that I
could make higher quality beer than
was generally available, and at a
lower price. Jackpot!
What’s your favorite brewery?
Little Machine. First, you’re drawn to
the circular wooden bar in the middle, fed by a supply line of beer coming from the cold room. Then you’re
presented with a variety of styles of
beer, well-described, with one sure to
Discover Denver
Citywide Building
Survey Comes
to All of Virginia
Village
What makes buildings in Virginia Village special? Discover Denver, a
project to identify historic and architecturally significant structures citywide, begins work in Virginia Village
this month, and wants your help!
The citywide survey of Denver’s
160,000 primary buildings gathers
information using public records,
neighborhood canvassing, academic research, and tips from the public.
Findings from this first-ever survey of
Denver will be made available online
so that everyone from property owners to history buffs can learn about
our city’s past—building by building.
Historic Denver, Inc. and the City and
County of Denver lead this project,
funded mainly by a History Colorado
grant.
Denver joins other major cities, including Los Angeles and Phoenix, that are
conducting building surveys.
Project benefits include:
• Uncovering buildings of historic
and architectural significance
• Providing property owners upfront information about buildings
to inform reinvestment and sale
decisions
• Equipping city planners with accurate information about historic resources to assist them when
creating and updating neighborhood plans
• Bolstering civic pride
Residents and business owners will
experience minimal—if any—impact
from volunteer surveyors. Survey workers observe a property from the public
street or sidewalk, taking notes on its
physical integrity (whether or not the
building retains its historic features).
Volunteers will have project-specific identification and should identify
themselves to you if asked. No one
associated with Discover Denver will
enter or access your property without
your permission.
Community input is key to the success
of the project! Tell us your Virginia Village stories and learn more about the
project at:
www.DiscoverDenver.CO
Hi 5 PLAY SCHOOL
(Ages 2 – 4)
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every single day”
Your neighborhood auto service
and repair shop!
Our team can provide everything from
factory-scheduled maintenance to brakes
to engine repairs and all diagnostics in
between.
We service all makes and models,
specializing in:
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Call us or stop by today to set up an appointment!
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Play and Learn Mornings
7:30am – 12:30pm or
9:00am – 12:30pm
Children will enjoy a morning
filled with fun learning activities, music and movement, art,
science, outdoor games, free play
and more!
(Organic meals included)
For more information go to
hi5playschool.com
or
Call us at 720.275.1313
Summer 2016 // Virginia Village/Ellis Community Association // www.virginiavillage.org // 7
the village voice
Krisana Park Conservation Update
Here is a quick update on the progress by Krisana Park residents to pass
a Conservation Overlay District (COD)
to help protect the Mid-Century Modern enclave. If you aren’t familiar with
Krisana Park, it is a section of Virginia
Village with 176 Mid-Century Modern homes—north of Florida, south of
Louisiana, east of Dahlia and west of
Glencoe and Forest Way. A group
of Krisana Park neighbors began a
movement in early 2015 to create
zoning amendments that would help
preserve the historic integrity of these
low-profile homes.
Signature gathering for a petition began over a year ago on Edison Way,
and spread to the rest of Krisana Park
starting in the spring of 2016. With
nearly 90% of Krisana Park homeowners on board, Councilman Paul Kashmann initiated The Krisana Park Conservation Overlay District (CO-5) on
June 16, 2016. Kyle Dalton, Principal
City Planner with Denver’s Community Planning and Development (CPD),
began the process to formalize the
amendments.
The first step was to “Test the Text
Amendment” from the petition.
During this process, CPD reviewed the
proposed amendments, and after a
meeting with Councilman Kashmann
and a few team members, arrived at
the set of standards in the table at the
bottom of the page.
CPD agreed with the original proposed standards, and proposed an
option to add the bulk plane height
and slope standard to help better
preserve the horizontal lines of the
original homes. Changing the slope is
in keeping with a maximum roof pitch
3:12—and the height has a split level to the rear of the zone lot. Krisana
Park block representatives who gathered the petition signatures agreed
with this proposal to help keep with
the intent of the petition. The standards below are the ones that will
move forward through the next steps
in the process.
In other updates, Councilman Kashmann and Kyle Dalton presented
the proposed amendments to the
Inter-Neighborhood
Cooperation
Zoning and Planning Committee (INC
ZAP) on July 23. INC is the umbrella organization for almost 200 Registered
Neighborhood Organizations (RNOs)
in Denver. The ZAP Committee keeps
up with all zoning requests throughout
the city, and they were very interested and supportive of the Krisana Park
amendment. The following motion
What’s your choice beer these days?
I keep coming back to the Vanilla
Porter at Dry Dock Brewing.
What’s a great beer recipe you’re
willing to share?
Elm Street ESB (grains plus extracts)
1.5 lbs. medium crystal malt, 60L
1.0 lbs. Canadian ESB malt
1.5 lbs. dry light malt extract
4.0 lbs. liquid light malt extract
1.5 lbs. corn sugar
0.5 oz. Target hops (5.5% alpha acid)
0.33 oz. Challenger hops
(9.6% alpha acid)
0.33 oz. US Goldings hops
(5.7% alpha acid)
0.1 oz. UK Northdown hops
(6.7% alpha acid)
1/4 tsp. yeast nutrients
1 tsp Irish moss
Wyeast 1968 (London ESB)
1/2-3/4 cup of corn sugar, if bottling
1. Steep crystal and Canadian ESB
malts (in a grain bag) in 1.5 gallons of
water at 160-170 degrees for 45 minutes. Remove and rinse malts in about
a gallon of very hot water. Remove
grains and pour rinse water into brew
kettle. Heat kettle to boil.
2. When water boils, add light malt
extract, and Target and Challenger
hops, and simmer for 60 minutes.
3. With 15 minutes to go in the cycle,
add yeast nutrients, Irish moss, Goldings and Northdown hops, and corn
sugar. Stir and add liquid malt extract.
Increase heat to bring back to boiling, but don’t shorten the time.
4. Cool wort and transfer to primary
fermenter. Add water to make 5 gallons of beer. Pitch yeast.
5. After about a week to 10 days of
primary fermentation, transfer to secondary fermenter. Beer is ready to
keg or bottle when there is no more
fermentation activity, usually in about
2-3 weeks.
The next homebrew tour is September
24 starting at 2 pm. Come meet and
visit with your neighbors, and taste
their homebrew as we bike through
the neighborhood. Feel free to bring
your beer to share. This is a kid-friendly event that is a lot of fun for everyone! Contact Kristi Brubaker for more
details at vavil lagecommunityhops@
gmail.com.
Nick Feldman, Broker
Brokers Guild
Represent buyer at no cost
Listings at 4.5%
30+ years experience
720-530-4758
Continued on page 8
Existing Standard (S-SU-D)
Proposed Standard (CO-5)
Maximum height in stories
2.5
1.5
Maximum height in feet
30’, increase up to 35’ for wider
lots
18’, no increase
Maximum roof pitch
None
No sloping plane greater than 3:12
Minimum setback, rear, no
alley
20’
15’
Rooftop and/or second
story decks Prohibited in the rear 35% of the
zone lot
Prohibited in 100% of the zone lot
Bulk plane height and slope
Slope 45 degrees starting at bulk
plane height of 10’ at the side
zone lot line.
Reduce slope to 3:12 (approx. 14
degrees); increase bulk plane height
to 14’ in the rear 50% of the zone lot
depth.
Summer 2016 // Virginia Village/Ellis Community Association // www.virginiavillage.org // 6
suit your palette. After you sit down,
you have a number of bar games
available, or you can just talk to your
friends. Slainte!
Summer 2016 // Virginia Village/Ellis Community Association // www.virginiavillage.org // 3
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Belcaro Estate in its early days // Denver Public Library Western History Collection
Belcaro // Continued from page 1
operator of King Soopers—for $19.4
million. But before Catellus sold it to
Kroger, the property went through a
series of sales that started with a sale
in 1977 from one Belcaro Investment
Co. to one Rosenberg Real Estate
Equity Fund No. 1. The Belcaro Investment Co. built the shopping center in
1954—or 1952, or 1953, or 1949, depending on your source. Who owned
this company that built the shopping
center? Well that’s where the story
gets interesting—in a couple of different ways.
Part 1 // Lawrence Phipps, Steel
Millionaire and Philanthropist
Fall is around the corner.
Stay tuned to our website
for new menu items, football
specials and more!
Thank you for all the
neighborhood support.
1950 S. Holly
estersdenver.com
The first part of the story is of Lawrence Phipps who bought the land
that eventually became Belcaro. In a
bit of a scandal in 1911, Phipps married his third wife, Margaret Rogers,
daughter of prominent attorney and
former Denver Mayor Platt Rogers.
Margaret was 26 years younger than
Phipps, who made his fortune as a
Carnegie Steel executive and moved
to Colorado in his 30s in 1901 to enjoy
the outdoors.
Despite their “dubious” beginning,
the Phipps built their names in Colora-
Summer 2016 // Virginia Village/Ellis Community Association // www.virginiavillage.org // 4
do with numerous charitable causes,
including Children’s Hospital and the
Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Lawrence also won a U.S. Senate seat in 1918, and won re-election
six years later. Margaret co-founded
the Denver Symphony Orchestra and
supported the Central City Opera.
Clean Conscience
Healthy Home Cleaning
303-495-5656
www.cleanconscience.com
a lawyer and Gerald was a contractor, who eventually started GH Phipps
Construction in 1952, but that’s not
why the Colorado Business Hall of
Fame said that they “will forever be
remembered in Colorado as saviors.”
They will be remembered for owning
the Denver Broncos from 1964 to 1981,
and are credited with keeping the
once-struggling franchise in Denver.
in 1977 and 1978, and three consecutive playoff appearances in 1977-79.
Gerald is the only non-player in the
Broncos Ring of Fame at Mile High.
The family’s construction company
built the complex in 2001 to replace
original Mile High Stadium—which it
also built.
The Broncos may be three-time world
champions now, but in 1964 the Broncos finished 2-11-1 and had just 8,002
season ticket holders. Given the dismal state of affairs the city of Atlanta
was knocking at the franchise door.
The Phipps brothers borrowed $1.5
million, and formed Rocky Mountain
Sports Inc. to buyout the owners.
Belcaro Shopping Center was sold in
1977, but Belcaro Estate was donated
to the University of Denver in 1964 for
a museum and conference center.
Who owns it today? Apparently DU
sold the mansion to Tim Gill, founder
of software company Quark, and the
Gill Foundation, which operates the
Gay & Lesbian Fund of Colorado.
Five years later came the Broncos
season ticket waiting list. Gerald guided the Broncos to their first-ever AFC
championship, a Western Division Title
That’s it for this newsletter’s history
lesson. If you remember any of the
original stores from Belcaro Shopping
Center, we’d love to hear from you.
End note: What about Belcaro Estate?
Another investment they became
known for was the Belcaro Estate. After leaving the Senate in 1930, Phipps
wanted to build a mansion for his
retirement. Fisher and Fisher, along
with New York architect Charles Platt,
designed Belcaro, which is Italian for
“Dear One”. The red-brick Georgian
mansion was completed in 1933 with
54 rooms and over 27,000 square feet.
The neighborhood surrounding Belcaro was also platted by Phipp’s company, Belcaro Investment Company,
in 1931. A portion of the land was
also used to create the Belcaro Park
Shopping Center in the early 1950s,
the forerunner of major development
along Colorado Boulevard.
Part 2 // Gerald and Allan Phipps,
Owners of Belcaro and the Broncos
The second part of the story is Gerald Phipps and Allan Phipps, sons of
Lawrence and Margaret. Allan was
Summer 2016 // Virginia Village/Ellis Community Association // www.virginiavillage.org // 5
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Belcaro Estate in its early days // Denver Public Library Western History Collection
Belcaro // Continued from page 1
operator of King Soopers—for $19.4
million. But before Catellus sold it to
Kroger, the property went through a
series of sales that started with a sale
in 1977 from one Belcaro Investment
Co. to one Rosenberg Real Estate
Equity Fund No. 1. The Belcaro Investment Co. built the shopping center in
1954—or 1952, or 1953, or 1949, depending on your source. Who owned
this company that built the shopping
center? Well that’s where the story
gets interesting—in a couple of different ways.
Part 1 // Lawrence Phipps, Steel
Millionaire and Philanthropist
Fall is around the corner.
Stay tuned to our website
for new menu items, football
specials and more!
Thank you for all the
neighborhood support.
1950 S. Holly
estersdenver.com
The first part of the story is of Lawrence Phipps who bought the land
that eventually became Belcaro. In a
bit of a scandal in 1911, Phipps married his third wife, Margaret Rogers,
daughter of prominent attorney and
former Denver Mayor Platt Rogers.
Margaret was 26 years younger than
Phipps, who made his fortune as a
Carnegie Steel executive and moved
to Colorado in his 30s in 1901 to enjoy
the outdoors.
Despite their “dubious” beginning,
the Phipps built their names in Colora-
Summer 2016 // Virginia Village/Ellis Community Association // www.virginiavillage.org // 4
do with numerous charitable causes,
including Children’s Hospital and the
Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Lawrence also won a U.S. Senate seat in 1918, and won re-election
six years later. Margaret co-founded
the Denver Symphony Orchestra and
supported the Central City Opera.
Clean Conscience
Healthy Home Cleaning
303-495-5656
www.cleanconscience.com
a lawyer and Gerald was a contractor, who eventually started GH Phipps
Construction in 1952, but that’s not
why the Colorado Business Hall of
Fame said that they “will forever be
remembered in Colorado as saviors.”
They will be remembered for owning
the Denver Broncos from 1964 to 1981,
and are credited with keeping the
once-struggling franchise in Denver.
in 1977 and 1978, and three consecutive playoff appearances in 1977-79.
Gerald is the only non-player in the
Broncos Ring of Fame at Mile High.
The family’s construction company
built the complex in 2001 to replace
original Mile High Stadium—which it
also built.
The Broncos may be three-time world
champions now, but in 1964 the Broncos finished 2-11-1 and had just 8,002
season ticket holders. Given the dismal state of affairs the city of Atlanta
was knocking at the franchise door.
The Phipps brothers borrowed $1.5
million, and formed Rocky Mountain
Sports Inc. to buyout the owners.
Belcaro Shopping Center was sold in
1977, but Belcaro Estate was donated
to the University of Denver in 1964 for
a museum and conference center.
Who owns it today? Apparently DU
sold the mansion to Tim Gill, founder
of software company Quark, and the
Gill Foundation, which operates the
Gay & Lesbian Fund of Colorado.
Five years later came the Broncos
season ticket waiting list. Gerald guided the Broncos to their first-ever AFC
championship, a Western Division Title
That’s it for this newsletter’s history
lesson. If you remember any of the
original stores from Belcaro Shopping
Center, we’d love to hear from you.
End note: What about Belcaro Estate?
Another investment they became
known for was the Belcaro Estate. After leaving the Senate in 1930, Phipps
wanted to build a mansion for his
retirement. Fisher and Fisher, along
with New York architect Charles Platt,
designed Belcaro, which is Italian for
“Dear One”. The red-brick Georgian
mansion was completed in 1933 with
54 rooms and over 27,000 square feet.
The neighborhood surrounding Belcaro was also platted by Phipp’s company, Belcaro Investment Company,
in 1931. A portion of the land was
also used to create the Belcaro Park
Shopping Center in the early 1950s,
the forerunner of major development
along Colorado Boulevard.
Part 2 // Gerald and Allan Phipps,
Owners of Belcaro and the Broncos
The second part of the story is Gerald Phipps and Allan Phipps, sons of
Lawrence and Margaret. Allan was
Summer 2016 // Virginia Village/Ellis Community Association // www.virginiavillage.org // 5
the village voice
Krisana Park Conservation Update
Here is a quick update on the progress by Krisana Park residents to pass
a Conservation Overlay District (COD)
to help protect the Mid-Century Modern enclave. If you aren’t familiar with
Krisana Park, it is a section of Virginia
Village with 176 Mid-Century Modern homes—north of Florida, south of
Louisiana, east of Dahlia and west of
Glencoe and Forest Way. A group
of Krisana Park neighbors began a
movement in early 2015 to create
zoning amendments that would help
preserve the historic integrity of these
low-profile homes.
Signature gathering for a petition began over a year ago on Edison Way,
and spread to the rest of Krisana Park
starting in the spring of 2016. With
nearly 90% of Krisana Park homeowners on board, Councilman Paul Kashmann initiated The Krisana Park Conservation Overlay District (CO-5) on
June 16, 2016. Kyle Dalton, Principal
City Planner with Denver’s Community Planning and Development (CPD),
began the process to formalize the
amendments.
The first step was to “Test the Text
Amendment” from the petition.
During this process, CPD reviewed the
proposed amendments, and after a
meeting with Councilman Kashmann
and a few team members, arrived at
the set of standards in the table at the
bottom of the page.
CPD agreed with the original proposed standards, and proposed an
option to add the bulk plane height
and slope standard to help better
preserve the horizontal lines of the
original homes. Changing the slope is
in keeping with a maximum roof pitch
3:12—and the height has a split level to the rear of the zone lot. Krisana
Park block representatives who gathered the petition signatures agreed
with this proposal to help keep with
the intent of the petition. The standards below are the ones that will
move forward through the next steps
in the process.
In other updates, Councilman Kashmann and Kyle Dalton presented
the proposed amendments to the
Inter-Neighborhood
Cooperation
Zoning and Planning Committee (INC
ZAP) on July 23. INC is the umbrella organization for almost 200 Registered
Neighborhood Organizations (RNOs)
in Denver. The ZAP Committee keeps
up with all zoning requests throughout
the city, and they were very interested and supportive of the Krisana Park
amendment. The following motion
What’s your choice beer these days?
I keep coming back to the Vanilla
Porter at Dry Dock Brewing.
What’s a great beer recipe you’re
willing to share?
Elm Street ESB (grains plus extracts)
1.5 lbs. medium crystal malt, 60L
1.0 lbs. Canadian ESB malt
1.5 lbs. dry light malt extract
4.0 lbs. liquid light malt extract
1.5 lbs. corn sugar
0.5 oz. Target hops (5.5% alpha acid)
0.33 oz. Challenger hops
(9.6% alpha acid)
0.33 oz. US Goldings hops
(5.7% alpha acid)
0.1 oz. UK Northdown hops
(6.7% alpha acid)
1/4 tsp. yeast nutrients
1 tsp Irish moss
Wyeast 1968 (London ESB)
1/2-3/4 cup of corn sugar, if bottling
1. Steep crystal and Canadian ESB
malts (in a grain bag) in 1.5 gallons of
water at 160-170 degrees for 45 minutes. Remove and rinse malts in about
a gallon of very hot water. Remove
grains and pour rinse water into brew
kettle. Heat kettle to boil.
2. When water boils, add light malt
extract, and Target and Challenger
hops, and simmer for 60 minutes.
3. With 15 minutes to go in the cycle,
add yeast nutrients, Irish moss, Goldings and Northdown hops, and corn
sugar. Stir and add liquid malt extract.
Increase heat to bring back to boiling, but don’t shorten the time.
4. Cool wort and transfer to primary
fermenter. Add water to make 5 gallons of beer. Pitch yeast.
5. After about a week to 10 days of
primary fermentation, transfer to secondary fermenter. Beer is ready to
keg or bottle when there is no more
fermentation activity, usually in about
2-3 weeks.
The next homebrew tour is September
24 starting at 2 pm. Come meet and
visit with your neighbors, and taste
their homebrew as we bike through
the neighborhood. Feel free to bring
your beer to share. This is a kid-friendly event that is a lot of fun for everyone! Contact Kristi Brubaker for more
details at vavil lagecommunityhops@
gmail.com.
Nick Feldman, Broker
Brokers Guild
Represent buyer at no cost
Listings at 4.5%
30+ years experience
720-530-4758
Continued on page 8
Existing Standard (S-SU-D)
Proposed Standard (CO-5)
Maximum height in stories
2.5
1.5
Maximum height in feet
30’, increase up to 35’ for wider
lots
18’, no increase
Maximum roof pitch
None
No sloping plane greater than 3:12
Minimum setback, rear, no
alley
20’
15’
Rooftop and/or second
story decks Prohibited in the rear 35% of the
zone lot
Prohibited in 100% of the zone lot
Bulk plane height and slope
Slope 45 degrees starting at bulk
plane height of 10’ at the side
zone lot line.
Reduce slope to 3:12 (approx. 14
degrees); increase bulk plane height
to 14’ in the rear 50% of the zone lot
depth.
Summer 2016 // Virginia Village/Ellis Community Association // www.virginiavillage.org // 6
suit your palette. After you sit down,
you have a number of bar games
available, or you can just talk to your
friends. Slainte!
Summer 2016 // Virginia Village/Ellis Community Association // www.virginiavillage.org // 3
the village voice
Neighborhood
Homebrewers
Drive Community
Hops Program
For the Virginia Village Community
Hops Program we decided to catch
up with one of our local neighborhood homebrewers, Mark Honhart,
for his favorite brews and an awesome beer recipe. Mark and his wife,
Karen moved to Krisana Park in October 2003. Check out those beer taps
in his kitchen below!
Virginia Village homebrewer Mark Honhart
When did you start brewing?
August 28, 1991. Dogbolter’s Ale.
What inspired you to start brewing?
In the late-1980s and early 1990s, good
beer was hard to find. Climbing trips
to Oregon with my brother opened
our world to high-quality ales. After
our return, my brother brewed the first
batch of homebrew and showed me
it was possible. However, him being
my younger brother, I could not allow that to go unanswered and took
up the charge myself. I learned that I
could make higher quality beer than
was generally available, and at a
lower price. Jackpot!
What’s your favorite brewery?
Little Machine. First, you’re drawn to
the circular wooden bar in the middle, fed by a supply line of beer coming from the cold room. Then you’re
presented with a variety of styles of
beer, well-described, with one sure to
Discover Denver
Citywide Building
Survey Comes
to All of Virginia
Village
What makes buildings in Virginia Village special? Discover Denver, a
project to identify historic and architecturally significant structures citywide, begins work in Virginia Village
this month, and wants your help!
The citywide survey of Denver’s
160,000 primary buildings gathers
information using public records,
neighborhood canvassing, academic research, and tips from the public.
Findings from this first-ever survey of
Denver will be made available online
so that everyone from property owners to history buffs can learn about
our city’s past—building by building.
Historic Denver, Inc. and the City and
County of Denver lead this project,
funded mainly by a History Colorado
grant.
Denver joins other major cities, including Los Angeles and Phoenix, that are
conducting building surveys.
Project benefits include:
• Uncovering buildings of historic
and architectural significance
• Providing property owners upfront information about buildings
to inform reinvestment and sale
decisions
• Equipping city planners with accurate information about historic resources to assist them when
creating and updating neighborhood plans
• Bolstering civic pride
Residents and business owners will
experience minimal—if any—impact
from volunteer surveyors. Survey workers observe a property from the public
street or sidewalk, taking notes on its
physical integrity (whether or not the
building retains its historic features).
Volunteers will have project-specific identification and should identify
themselves to you if asked. No one
associated with Discover Denver will
enter or access your property without
your permission.
Community input is key to the success
of the project! Tell us your Virginia Village stories and learn more about the
project at:
www.DiscoverDenver.CO
Hi 5 PLAY SCHOOL
(Ages 2 – 4)
“Where fun and learning get
together
every single day”
Your neighborhood auto service
and repair shop!
Our team can provide everything from
factory-scheduled maintenance to brakes
to engine repairs and all diagnostics in
between.
We service all makes and models,
specializing in:
Audi | BMW | Porsche | Volkswagen | Volvo
Call us or stop by today to set up an appointment!
Sixth Avenue Auto
1570 S. Holly Street | Denver, CO
80222 | 303-399-4087
Monday - Friday | 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
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Play and Learn Mornings
7:30am – 12:30pm or
9:00am – 12:30pm
Children will enjoy a morning
filled with fun learning activities, music and movement, art,
science, outdoor games, free play
and more!
(Organic meals included)
For more information go to
hi5playschool.com
or
Call us at 720.275.1313
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the village voice
vveca officers
President
Scott Whitfield // 303 919 7967
scott.whitfield@whitfieldre.com
Vice President
H. Christine Richards // 720 363 6531
hchristine1980@hotmail.com
Secretary
Paul Sullivan // 720 280 8357
pmmsullivan@yahoo.com
Treasurer
Jimmy Hackbarth
Delegate at Large
Beth Trudgeon // 303 756 3402
Contribute articles to the Village Voice at
virginiavillageorg@gmail.com
community links
Emergency 9-1-1
City Services 3-1-1
Police 720 913 2000 // non-emergency,
crime NOT in progress
Denver Police Liaison Officer Mike
Borquez // 720 913 1183
Neighborhood Inspections 720 865 3200
// Zoning, unshoveled snow, weeds taller
than 6 inches, unsightly properties
Household Hazardous Waste Collection
800 449 7587
Power Failure 800 895 1999
Paul Kashmann // City Council District 6
// 720 337 6666
Pat Steadman // District 31 State Senator
// 303 866 4863
Irene Aguilar // District 32 State Senator
// 303 866 4852
Paul Rosenthal // District 9 State Representative //303 866 2910
the village voice
Krisana Park Conservation, Cont.
Continued from page 6
Summer 2016 // www.virginiavillage.org
was made, seconded and passed by
the committee by a vote of 24 in favor and 1 abstention:
in this issue
Inter-Neighborhood
Cooperation
should express to the Planning Board
and City Council that it supports the
establishment of Krisana Park Conservation District 5 because it is strongly
supported by the neighborhood and
it will help to conserve an important
affordable mid-century modern architectural style in Denver.
Krisana Park Conservation
Efforts Underway // Page 6
Meet VV Homebrewer Mark
Honhart // Page 2
Discover Denver in Virginia
Village to Document Buildings
in the Neighborhood // Page 7
Next steps in the amendment process
include: (dates subject to change)
• Public Review Redline Draft posted on the CPD website and informational notice sent to RNOs
(mid- August) www.DenverGov.
org/TextAmendments
• Planning Board Public Hearing
(mid- to late September)
• City Council Committee meeting
(mid-October)
• City Council First Reading (late
October)
• City Council Public Hearing and
decision by City Council (late November)
Following City Council approval, Mayor Michael Hancock must sign the
Amendment for the Zoning Code Text
The low-profile of Virginia Village homes is
reflected in local artwork // kennybe.com
and Map to be amended and make
the Krisana Park Conservation Overlay District (CO-5) part of the Denver
Zoning Code.
If you have any questions, please
contact
virginiavillageorg@gmail.
com to be connected with Kate Adams, and the Krisana Park team leading this effort.
Historic Denver, a local historic preservation organization, has also created
a pattern book to help residents update their home in ways that reflect
the historic nature of this neighborhood. You can order a copy of the
pattern book here: www.historicdenver.org/programs/pattern-and-design-idea-books.
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King Soopers opening day at Belcaro // Denver Public Library Western History Collection
Belcaro’s Link to the Broncos
upcoming
meetings
VV Quarterly
Community Meeting
It isn’t easy to fly by it on Colorado Boulevard with all the traffic these days,
but Belcaro Shopping Center can
get lost in all the development going
on right now along Virginia Village’s
western border. If you look closer at
the shopping center and the stucco-backed nameplates that adorn
it, however, you’ll notice pediments,
pilasters and plinth blocks on some
of the shop entryways, an odd rustic
door near the Northern entrance to
King Soopers, and a colonial cupola
and weathervane rising from the middle of the shopping center.
west side, including the former Bridge
language center and a church. It is
an island of Colonial Revival in a sea
of largely modern ranch homes and
new shopping facilities.
People who have lived in Virginia Village a long time always talk about
Belcaro Shopping Center like it just
has always existed; it’s just always
been there along with King Soopers.
But it had to start somewhere, right?
Which leads to the obvious—but generally interesting—question of: Who
created this colonial oasis?
Every Monday at Potenza Park
// Contact Diane Wolta for
times at 303 548 0523
These features have always intrigued
me—they are hints of Colonial Revival, but definitely with a mid-century
flair. The shopping center is part of a
bigger collection of colonial buildings
strung along Colorado Boulevard’s
On March 14, 2008, Catellus Development Corp. sold the Belcaro Shopping Center to Cincinnati-based
Kroger Cos.—one of the largest grocery retailers in the U.S. and owner/
Sept. 24 // 2:00 pm // Contact
Kristi Brubaker for details at
vavillagecommunityhops@
gmail.com
Featuring Denver Police, City
Councilman Paul Kashmann,
Historic Denver // Virginia
Village Library // 1500 S.
Dahlia // Sept. 14 // 6:30 pm
Bocce Ball
VV Community Hops
Homebrew Tour
Continued on page 4
A publication of the Virginia Village/Ellis Community Association