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Centennial staff outline neighborhood services grants, rental rules, animal services and code enforcement
Summary
Neighborhood Services staff described small and large community grants, movie‑night kits, the short‑term rental licensing program, new animal‑service tools and code enforcement activity; staff also summarized the city's eligible partner open‑space grant program funded from Arapahoe County allocations.
Ryan Thompson, the city’s Neighborhood Services manager, and Stephanie Warren, a planner, presented the Neighborhood Services program and several outreach and grant initiatives at the Feb. 12 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting.
Thompson summarized three grant tiers used to promote neighbor engagement and community improvements: a $500 neighborhood engagement grant, $10,000 community improvement grants and the larger Eligible Partner Grant program funded from Arapahoe County open‑space dollars. "In 2024 we had over a hundred of those $500 grant applications submitted and we distributed $47,000 in grant funds," Thompson said, describing neighborhood events, outdoor movie kits and community improvement projects staff have supported.
Thompson described the $10,000 community improvement grants as intended for placemaking, monument signage, landscaping and similar capital projects. He said staff received 33 large‑grant proposals last year and awarded 10; some awarded projects came in under budget and others leveraged additional community…
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