Commerce City, Colorado

8 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 is well known throughout the area. Claymore shares how Derby is being revitalized through restoration. Specifically, promoting its original 1950-60s aesthetics through lighting, signage and architectural design standards referred to as “googie”. There are also efforts underway to preserve three iconic murals that display some of the history and character of Derby. In addition to this revitalization, the city’s infrastructure is always being improved such as widening two-lane roads to be four-lane arterial streets. Tinklenberg reports that the South Adams County Water & Sanitation District provides water and sanitation services as a separate entity from the city. “We work closely with them to meet the demand for new development. We’ve completed cooperative projects, where we use a special district to help pay for improvements like water main extensions. They’re putting in a second system for irrigation water and they’ll provide potable water for drinking. They’ll parallel it with an irrigation water distribution system that provides untreated water for irrigation.” In terms of innovation, he cites how in 2021 they finished construction on The John Ennis Water Softening Plant, which removes minerals from the water. “We also have several drainage projects because we have multiple creeks draining towards the COMMERCE C I TY , COLORADO