Tag: Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman
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Aurora camping ban will take effect by end of April
Aurora City Council passed on final reading the urban camping ban sponsored by Mayor Mike Coffman in a 6-5 vote, with Coffman breaking council’s tie vote. This means the ban will take effect by the end of April. The ban will prohibit all urban camping on private and public property within Aurora. It also requires…
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Aurora City Council approves new urban camping ban on first reading
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Aurora City Council passed on first reading Monday night the urban camping ban Mayor Mike Coffman brought back to the now right-leaning City Council after it failed in August. Coffman voted aye to break council’s tie vote with an overall vote of 6-5 for the…
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Aurora mayor to reintroduce proposed homeless camping ban
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save With the newly right-leaning Aurora City Council on his side, Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman is planning to reintroduce his failed camping ban to the council next month. The ban would prohibit all urban camping on private and public property within Aurora. The ban would also…
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Court grants injunction in Coffman’s lawsuit against Aurora over campaign finance law
An Arapahoe County District Court judge has granted a preliminary injunction in Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman’s lawsuit against the city, claiming that a new campaign finance law violates his freedom of speech. The lawsuit alleges the law, passed by the City Council last year, prohibits former and future candidates from pushing for ballot issues or…
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Aurora mayor to propose camping ban to address homelessness in city
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman announced Monday that he plans to introduce an ordinance to the City Council this week that would ban camping within the city. The ordinance, to be introduced Thursday, would attempt to address the city’s growing homeless population, similar to Denver’s urban camping ban passed in 2012. Coffman said the ordinance is…
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Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman sues city over new campaign finance law ‘designed to silence him’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman has filed a lawsuit against the city of Aurora due to reform to its campaign finance law passed by the City Council last year, claiming the new law violates his freedom of speech. The law limits donations from individuals and committees…
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Aurora City Council strikes down two immigration protection ordinances in tiebreaking votes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After multiple delays, the Aurora City Council voted down a pair of immigration protection ordinances Monday night, choosing to decline both ordinances in a 5-6 vote. The ordinances, sponsored by Council members Crystal Murillo and Alison Coombs, would have banned Aurora police from working with…
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Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman takes citywide camping ban off the table for now
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman announced Monday that he will be halting all work toward establishing a citywide camping ban to address homelessness in the city. Coffman said on Twitter that he is suspending moving forward with the ban “until I better understand what its impact will be on Aurora.” “I think the question that I…
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City leaders demand regional housing solutions following Mayor Coffman’s homeless ‘stunt’
Numerous city leaders and homeless advocates demanded action Thursday in a virtual press conference inspired by Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman’s week-long experiment posing as homeless in Aurora and Denver. “Our goal is to provide an alternate vision to solving housing and homelessness issues,” said Aurora City Council member Crystal Murillo. Murillo said she and the…
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Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman explains homeless experiment, state leaders react
It was revealed Tuesday that Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman spent seven days and nights posing as homeless on the streets of Aurora and Denver to gain insight on the metro’s homelessness situation. From Dec. 26 to Jan. 2, Coffman spent three nights sleeping in encampments and four nights in different homeless shelters, relying on resource…