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Commissioners ask mayor's office for answers after downtown Denver Avenue boulder installation
Summary
A commissioner raised community concerns that large boulders placed at the Denver Avenue transit station constitute hostile architecture that limits access for people who are unhoused; the commission requested an update from the mayor's office and asked staff to invite an administration representative to the next meeting.
Commissioner Barrows used the Human Rights Commission meeting on Aug. 18 to raise concerns about a recent installation of large boulders at the Denver Avenue transit station downtown, saying the rocks limit places where people can sit in the shade and called the placement an example of “hostile architecture.”
Barrows described the station as long used by people with nowhere else to be and said the boulders reduce access to shade and seating that had been available under the trees. Commissioners and staff discussed the mix of concerns raised in public meetings — safety complaints at the station, city efforts to respond to perceived loitering and a private-sector…
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