Parker o cer, K-9 featured in calendar

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BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Parker Police Department’s O cer Eric Graham and his K-9, Kato, are Mr. February’s in Vested Interest in K9s 2023 calendar.

Kato, one of the two police dogs at the Parker Police Department, received his ballistic vest from Vested Interest in K9s.

Dangerously cold weather rolled into Douglas County and around the Denver area at the end of January, potentially a ecting the metro area’s annual Point in Time count.

When outdoor conditions are so harsh, unhoused people might

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Platting e orts continue in Downtown Parker Council approves roadway contracts

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In an e ort to conclude all platting in Downtown Parker, the community development team proposed two minor plats for the Daisy Rowley House and the Exchange Building properties during the Feb. 6 town council meeting.

e Parker town council unanimously approved the Daisy Rowley House Minor Development Plat on Pikes Peak Drive.

According to Ashley Chasez, from the Community Development Department Planning Division, the property was annexed in 1981 when the town was originally incorporated. However, it has never been platted.

e site includes two lots. One is an existing single story building built in 1993 that is currently being used as the o ce for Plum Creek Funding.

e other lot includes two structures, one of which is the existing building from 1917, and the other is a large accessory garage behind the historic home that is currently being used by Ryan & Company, Inc. a local contracting company.

e minor development plat will establish the two parcels as legal lots of record as is required by the Municipal Code.

“ is proposal will create two legal lots,” said Councilmember Laura Hefta. “And it allows for the continuation of existing uses and will provide opportunity for future re-development within the context