Colorado Trivia

[Irving]

Pop quiz!

Without looking it up, do you know where Mountain View, CO is located?

[SuperiorDG]

just east of me.

[Scanker19]

America.

[TFOGGER]

Yup. They write more traffic tickets per capita than any other town in Colorado.

[Irving]

Yup. They write more traffic tickets per capita than any other town in Colorado.

That's how I found out about it!

[TFOGGER]

I found out the hard way back in the 80s. Bullshit ticket for 6 mph over, on southbound Sheridan. They got their asses in a sling sometime back in the mid 90s for writing tickets on northbound Sheridan, which is actually Denver.

[StagLefty]

It was the hospital my son was born in.

[O2HeN2]

A twelve block area has its own police department?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mountain+View,+CO+80212/@39.7747745,-105.0567121,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x876b87a20aa7db3f:0x741dc d246c8b800b

O2

[Irving]

A twelve block area has its own police department?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mountain+View,+CO+80212/@39.7747745,-105.0567121,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x876b87a20aa7db3f:0x741dc d246c8b800b

O2

If you lived that close to the Camelot Apartments in Wheat Ridge, you would too.

[BladesNBarrels]

Posted 10:17 pm, October 27, 2014, by Rob Low (http://kdvr.com/author/rlow999/), Updated at 09:18pm, October 28, 2014 FOX 31 News:

Colorado considers seat belt violations a secondary violation, meaning drivers typically need to be pulled over for a primary offense like speeding, before police can ticket them for a seat belt violation
Borga and her husband, Chris, were shocked to learn Mountain View, as a home-rule city, has its own ordinance treating seat belt violations as a primary violation.
Seat belt violations are a common reason to be pulled over in Mountain View. The town only covers 12 square blocks between Denver and Wheat Ridge.
Yet from Jan. 1, 2012, to Oct. 16, 2014, it issued 3,812 seat belt violations. That’s nearly four seat belt tickets every day.
Denver, which has 650,000 people compared to Mountain View’s population of 500, only issued 1,840 seat belt tickets in the same time frame.
Home-rule cities are allowed to create their own ordinances that override state law, but according to the Colorado Constitution, a city with 2,000 residents is supposed to have “the power to make, amend, add to, or replace” state law.
In the meantime, Summer Borga said drivers need to know one thing: “People need to be aware that Colorado State law doesn’t protect them in Mountain View.”

[facepalm]

[Guylee]

So it's essentially one of those Cali-rado areas?

[Gman]

What is their stance on weed?

I figure if there's money in it for them one way or another (or maybe both ways), that's the direction they'll take.

[ben4372]

I think they are SUPER weed friendly. They are rotten, but the residence seem to be okay with it. If they ever get absorbed by Edge Water or Wheat Ridge, a F250 is all you need to move "City Hall".

[Great-Kazoo]

Speaking of CO trivia. What was the name of the pizza place just north and off 285, IIRC west of federal?

[driver]

Speaking of CO trivia. What was the name of the pizza place just north and off 285, IIRC west of federal?

Vella's was on the east side of Federal and north of 285 a bit. Across from Loretta Heights. Yes, I know it's not Loretta anymore, it's not Vella's anymore either.
That's all I can think of.

[Great-Kazoo]

Vella's was on the east side of Federal and north of 285 a bit. Across from Loretta Heights. Yes, I know it's not Loretta anymore, it's not Vella's anymore either.
That's all I can think of.

Sounds like it.Big parking lot fairly busy place. IIRC wasn't that area north of 285 called or referred to as Goat Hill ?

[sandman76]

We used to call the area east of Federal between Hampden and Dartmouth Dogpatch. No curb and gutter and steep hills like down Bryant. Good view of Devils Head from there.

Never heard it called Goat Hill that I remember.

[Great-Kazoo]

We used to call the area east of Federal between Hampden and Dartmouth Dogpatch. No curb and gutter and steep hills like down Bryant. Good view of Devils Head from there.

Never heard it called Goat Hill that I remember.


West of federal not east. Then again there's lots of monickers / names of small areas within the metro area called different things. Capitol Hill, Park Hill, LoDo with all the hipsters / revival of the metro area. EVERYTHING has to or is given a name, to show it's differences from other areas.

[68Charger]

if it's Colorado trivia, the answer is always Marijuana...

just ask anyone in Boulder or Manitou Springs...