PETITION

According to the city’s news release, electors who wished to protest the validity of the referendum petition had until June 13 to file their opposition. When a protest is filed, a hearing must be scheduled to make a final determination of the validity of the petition.

The protest to the referendum petition

On June 13, resident David Lee Carroll filed a protest to the referendum petition, claiming the petition got fewer than 1,466 valid signatures.

According to the protest filed with the city clerk’s office, personnel at the real estate and land use law firm Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti P.C. reviewed the petition and prepared a “petition rejection summary table” which lists out the signatures it found to be invalid.

Andrew L. W. Peters of the Otten Johnson law firm is named as an attorney for Carroll in the protest.

In an interview with the Englewood Herald, Carroll said he is not paying for the law firm’s services.

On June 22, Peters said via email that developer Embrey Partners is paying for the representation.

“Even though it’s Embrey’s project at stake, the law requires a registered voter to file a protest. David has been a long-time champion of Embrey’s project, so he volunteered to take on that role,” Peters wrote on June 22. “We’re glad he did and look forward to an opportunity to present our arguments at tomorrow’s hearing.”

Carroll, who previously served as the executive director for the Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce, was among those who spoke in favor of the development during a March 6 city council meeting.

The filed protest stated that “irregularities and deficiencies” within the referendum petition “total to at least 530 invalid signatures, to be deducted from the total 1,747 collected.”

According to the protest, one of the reasons for invalidating signatures is, “Two petition pages were ripped from a petition packet or were missing a packet number, indicating improper disassembly and invalidating all 10 signatures on those sheets.”

“Six different petition packets, totaling 178 otherwise-valid signatures, appeared to have been disassembled and re-stapled. Along with the ripped page, missing sheet number, and other circumstantial evidence, this suggests improper tampering that disqualifies those signatures,” the protest added.

The protest claimed that “many signers” were not registered electors in the city at the time of signing and that others omitted their signature or the date. It also alleged that “Gary Kozacek allowed multiple people to sign on behalf of others.”

“In all, and considering circulator misconduct, Proponents secured no more than 1,217 valid signatures — well short of the 1,466 required,” the protest stated.

What led to the protest

Carroll said he spoke in favor of the development project because he believes it will promote more walkability and safety in the area.

“I recognize that there are opponents, too, for different reasons, but that is the reason that I and others … were willing to be more supportive of this project,” he said.

Carroll said he knew the developer originally from his time as the executive director for the Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce. He said he had previously reached out to the developer and asked if the team would consider offering additional funding for a crosswalk and for the city’s pedes -

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“We, as neighbors, were trying to, in some ways, encourage or incentivize the developer to do some projects that we couldn’t get the city to do for us — or at least pay for the project, (since) the city would still have to approve those,” he said. “And they were willing to do that.”

When the Englewood Herald asked Carroll if he has any connection to or financial interest in the proposed development, besides being a resident who is interested in the walkability components of the project, he said, “I do not. I mean, other than that they would possibly fund a crosswalk and a bridge.”

“And that they would provide, you know, sidewalks,” he said, adding that it does not currently feel safe to walk along Navajo.

Carroll said that after he heard the referendum petition was approved, he reached out to the city clerk to look at who had signed the petition and where they lived in Englewood.

“What I was told by the folks that were against this project is that there were a lot of people on Lipan Street, which is the street right behind where the project would reside, that … were disappointed in the project because it was going to be much higher than they had expected,” he said.

When Carroll looked over the signatures, he said he saw that about six out of the roughly 31 homes on that street had signed. He also saw a lot of signatures from people who live “on the far edges of Englewood” and not near the proposed development, he said.

“I put out on, kind of, social media (that) it was disappointing to me that there was so many people that didn’t live in our neighborhood that had signed this referendum,” he said, adding that he got a lot of different responses.

Something that caught Carroll’s interest was when he saw

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Based on what he has heard, Carroll said he thinks some residents were told if they signed the referendum petition that “it wasn’t the end of the project. It was going to force the city to create a traffic plan or environmental plan or whatever.” with the Arapahoe County Court.

Carroll said he was not asked to sign the petition, so he did not have any basis to know whether that was true, but he had gotten messages from people claiming that happened to them.

“And so that’s where … the nature of that protest came out,” he said.

During the June 20 city council meeting, Kozacek spoke during public comment and thanked the people who helped circulate the referendum petition.

“When I applied for that referendum, it stated traffic study, air quality, noise — and then there was a sideline at the end that there should be an additional consideration of the possible … pollution,” Kozacek said.

“That’s what the petition was all about. I’ve been accused, I’ve been subpoenaed in for Friday, right here. And they’re telling me that I lied to the public,” he continued, before being stopped by Mayor Othoniel Sierra who told Kozacek that his allotted time to speak had ended.

Regarding the June 23 protest hearing, Carroll said he thinks there is a case to be made.

“I think that it’s been laid out well, on what is, you know, what — not necessarily that anybody was malicious or intentional, but there were rules to be followed. And possibly, those rules were not followed so there should be additional signatures that would be invalidated,” Carroll said.

“I don’t really know … how this will go, but I think it’s worth the effort,” he continued.

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