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I recently spent a long weekend in New Haven, Connecticut, the town of my grad school and a place I have not visited in more than twenty years. I can happily confirm what so many folks have told me - that New Haven is a dramatically nicer and safer place than it was when I was at Yale in the early 1990s.
I've written a number of times about mining buildings in Colorado and their remarkable presence in the landscape. Most of those buildings were located around the Central City/Blackhawk area of Gilpin County. On a recent trip to Cripple Creek and Victor I was able to see an incredible number of remarkable structures, abandoned relics of a heady time.
We have been engaged on the design of a new house in Portland, Oregon by returning clients who have relocated to that city. The project includes an ADU, an accessory dwelling unit, which is located to the front of the structure. The family's portion of the house is toward the rear of the property and surrounds the garden.
Every ten years or so, our local city government, the City Council and some folks in the Planning Department, get the notion that the downtown civic area needs to be revitalized. So Master Plans are created, consultants are hired, public meeting are held and more often than not, the public has clearly expressed the desire to leave beautiful Boulder as it is. There is a lot to be said about...
