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Week of March 30, 2023
JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO
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VOLUME 39 | ISSUE 36
Spring HOME & GARDEN Special Section
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Polis targets New Edgewater bakery asks customers to think outside the Box local land
use in bid to make housing less costly BY JESSE PAUL AND ELLIOTT WENZLER THE COLORADO SUN
water Public Market at 5505 W. 20th Ave. The bakery hosted its soft opening March 17 with a grand opening March 19, both of which were wellreceived with pastries flying off the baking sheets.
Fast-growing, housing-strapped Colorado communities would be barred from limiting construction of duplexes, triplexes and add-on housing units under a marquee measure unveiled in March by Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic state lawmakers aimed at addressing the state’s housing crisis by increasing residential density. The land-use bill would also block limits on how many unrelated people can live in the same home and prevent Colorado’s largest cities from restricting what kind of housing can be built near transit stops. A separate measure, meanwhile, would ban municipalities from imposing new growth caps and eliminate existing ones. The land-use proposal would apply differently throughout the state depending on population size and housing needs, with the biggest impacts on Colorado’s most populous cities — Denver, Aurora, Boulder, Lakewood, Colorado Springs and Grand Junction — but also rules for rural communities and resort towns, which have faced their own unique housing struggles. “This is an affordability crisis
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Black Box Bakery co-owner Arielle Israel stands with a pastry display March 22 at the bakery’s new retail location at the Edgewater Public Market. Israel and her fellow owners started Black Box in 2019 as a wholesale bakery, and hosted a grand opening for the PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN Edgewater retail location March 19. BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
When Arielle Israel, Ty Webb and Megan Read started Black Box Bakery in 2019, it was a wholesale bakery. Its selection of products, ingredients and toppings were lim-
ited based on the wholesale model, but the bakers wanted to be more creative. They wanted to expand into retail, and this month that dream came true. Black Box Bakery has opened its first retail location inside the Edge-
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