The issue of loss of Open Spaces in the Denver core is even worse than the article says.  The only reason the negative acres per person is not greater is because of the additions to open space in Stapleton and small increase around Confluence Park area. In the central area the loss is even greater with the closing of many of DPS schools that had park and playground facilities, Gove Middle School for one. Denver leadership has not done anything to improve the number of parks and playgrounds in the core. They need funding and should focus on getting funding, so many missed opportunists, the huge CU redevelopment could have been a place for a new park, but Denver has zero money to buy and build. Aurora and everywhere else has a sales tax to pay for parks, not Denver. The fact Denver clears out on weekends and Jeffco and Boulder OS is packed is evidence that current planning for densification and no cars is not working or going to work unless parks and OS are created close by.