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VOLUME 36 • NUMBER 25 • MAY 10, 2018
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The whimsical and fashionable Hattitude luncheon is the signature benefit for the Women’s Voices Fund, which helps women playwrights and directors be heard.
To learn more about the event contact the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. 303-446-4812. Hattitude participants (standing) Nathalia Faribault, Cyndy Marsh, Diane
Foster, Ruby Houston and event co-chair Terri Fisher; (seated) Toni Glynon, Deborah Mueller Hruza, Regan Linton and event co-chair Murri Bishop.
GV City Council amends drone use municipal code Council receved advice on living with geese in the city, honored college-bound students After receiving a number of calls from residents about actual and perceived potential ways in which drones have been or might
be used intrusively, GV city attorney Tonya Haas-Davidson attempted to craft language to amend the municipal code to address citizens’ concerns. It was tricky because the Federal Aviation Administration has sole jurisdiction over aircraft and all U.S. airspace. That includes aircraft, like drones that fly at very low altitudes. After several stops and starts over the past year, Haas-Davidson got help
from newly elected city councilman Tom Dougherty, an attorney with knowledge in the area. They drafted amendments to the city’s municipal code that make it a violation of law to commit invasion of privacy, trespassing, harassment, or interfere with a police officer. The city received at least 18 letters from drone operators, all objecting to the proposed amendments to the city
code. No letters of support were introduced at the hearing. Most writers said these rules were unnecessary due to federal guidelines and would interfere with their legitimate businesses that use drone technology. Four citizens came to the meeting to address the city council. All were concerned about the vagueness of the language. One of those testifying was a trained
attorney who pointed to the terms, “expectation of privacy,” and “in a manner likely to…annoy,” as examples of ambiguous speech. He also said that defining trespassing as failing to get advance consent from a property owner to fly one’s drone turns the concept of trespassing “on its head.” Continued on page 8