# The Great GIDification of Denver — The 5.4-Mile Creeping Tax Wall, Public Discovery & Border Lock-In

> Canonical interactive street map: https://stopthegid.com/gidification
> Sister neighborhood briefings: https://stopthegid.com/ (Golden Triangle · Survey cutoff Nov 20, 2026) | https://downtowndenvergid.com/ (Downtown · Open House Tue Nov 10, 2026)
> Financial & Form 990 audit: https://stopthegid.com/follow-the-money
> Updated: November 6, 2026

## The 5.4-Mile Contiguous Creep Across Central Denver (I-70 to I-25)

Plotting official City & County of Denver ArcGIS boundaries alongside the two active November 2026 feasibility studies reveals an **unbroken 5.41-mile north-to-south corridor** of perpetual General Improvement Districts snapping together curb-to-curb—**more than doubling central Denver's perpetual GID territory from 695 acres to 1,405 acres (2.20 sq. mi.)** while ratcheting up mill levies at every hop:

1. **RiNo GID (Locked 2015 · 380 acres · 4.000 mills):** `I-70 / Brighton Blvd` (`39.780°N`) south toward Park Ave (77.2% commercial/industrial base; `0` sunset).
2. **Ballpark GID (Locked Nov 2024 · 170 acres · 5.000 mills · 221 sigs):** Picks up south of RiNo down to **`20th Street`** (`39.749°N`), repealing 4 commercial Pedestrian Mall LMDs (`CB24-1731–1734`) and taxing neighbors `$85,000` in Year 1 to repay proponents' setup consultants (**23.6% Admin** in 2026).
3. **Proposed 120-Block Downtown GID Overlay (Tue Nov 10 Open House · 456 acres · ~7,800 homes):** Picks up at **`20th Street`** (`39.756°N`) and runs south to **`W. Colfax Ave`** (`39.7402°N`), ending 34 years of statutory residential exemption (`$0` mailers sent; leaked Nov 3, 2026, 7 days before the Open House).
4. **Proposed Golden Triangle GID (Fri Nov 20 Survey Cutoff · 254 acres · 6,746 homes · up to 10.0 mills modeled):** Picks up on the **opposite curb of `W. Colfax Ave`** (`39.7406°N`) and runs south to **`6th Ave`** (`39.7261°N`)—incubated 5 years after a `$200,000` Urban Villages LLC seed (`1150 Bannock LLC` -> `GTCE`, `EIN 87-3195005`) while UV's `$82.34M` Populus Hotel 50 ft north of Colfax pays `$0.00` here (`0` mailers sent to 6,746 homes ahead of the Nov 20 cutoff).
5. **South Broadway GID (Locked Aug 4, 2025 · 103 acres · 8.960 mills · 206 sigs):** Picks up on the **exact opposite curb of `6th Ave`** (`39.7256°N`) and runs south to **`I-25`** (`39.7012°N`). Qualified on signatures from just **13% of apartment renters** (`110/842`) and **14% of homeowners** (`31/222`); in its first amended budget (Oct 27, 2026, `File 26-1588`), Admin jumped **+124% to 25.0%** while promised Safety was cut **-36.8%**.

### Where Residents Stopped the Creep Cold: Cherry Creek (May–Sept 2025)
- In Spring 2025, consultants tried to push the GID creep **east** across `534 acres` of residential Cherry Creek (`6th Ave` to `Alameda Ave`, `University` to `Colorado`).
- Because Council District 5 **mailed `$230–$990/yr` cost postcards** to households in May 2025, **65.25%** voted *"Not Interested"*—and when consultants called `65.25%` *"not a clear no,"* **1,780+ neighbor signatures killed the proposal in Sept 2025**.
- Applying that lesson in reverse, 2026 Golden Triangle and Downtown proponents (both using **P.U.M.A.**) mailed **zero Phase-1 cost postcards** across `~14,500` homes.

### Why the Creep Self-Perpetuates ("Spillover Dominoes")
- Once one district locks in private security/ambassadors whose patrol stops at the boundary curb, consultants pitch the *next* residential neighborhood over (**Capitol Hill**, **Uptown**, **La Alma / Lincoln Park**, **Five Points**, and **Baker side streets**) that neighboring districts are pushing disorder onto their blocks unless they lock into a perpetual 1949 GID too.