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BY SAJA HINDI
THE DENVER POST
The Colorado State Patrol
trooper who was killed on the
Interstate 70 on Friday was ini-
tially responding to a single-vehi- called to assist in the first crash,
cle rollover crash in which a
woman and an 18-month-old were
injured, police said.
Trooper William Moden was
killed while assisting in the first ly before 9:45 p.m., so the Arapa-
crash on eastbound I-70 at mile
marker 324, just east of the Peo-
ria exit, according to Arapahoe
Sandra Campanella is a domestic violence detective at Longmont Police Department, which has seen a significant rise in the number of domestic violence cases in the past year.
Domestic violence cases saw
more than 23% spike in ’18
Agency trust, better reporting seen as contributing
BY KELSEY HAMMON
STAFF WRITER
Every day when Sandra
Campanella, a domestic vio-
lence detective for the Long-
mont Police Department,
climbs the stairs to her second-
floor office, she thinks of the
victims she’s encountered in
her nearly nine years of work
with the unit. When she thinks
CDOT revises menu for motorist updates on work
BY CHARLIE BRENNAN
STAFF WRITER
More than two months into
the project, the Colorado
Department of Transportation is
making wholesale changes to
the communications tools with
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County Sheriff’s Office spokes-
woman Deborah Sherman.
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s
Office as well as Adams County
Sheriff’s Office deputies were
Sherman said. Moden was struck
and killed by another vehicle
while working at the scene short-
hoe County Sheriff’s Office took
over the investigation of the sin-
gle-vehicle rollover.
LONGMONT
of their stories, often one mes-
sage resonates.
“The question should not be
why didn’t she leave or why did
she go back?” Campanella said.
“The real question is why did
he keep hitting her?”
It’s a thought that to Cam-
panella has become increasing-
ly important as data from a
recent summary reveals that
which people can get updates
and learn about ongoing blast-
ing and construction work on
Colo. 119 in Boulder Canyon.
There’s a new texting proto-
col, a new phone number to call
and a new email address.
Johnnie
St. Vrain
The woman in the first crash
was allegedly driving recklessly
and reaching speeds in excess of
100 mph, witnesses told police.
The vehicle had rolled over,
and when police arrived at the
scene, they found out that it had
rolled multiple times through a
field before the driver and an 18-
month old baby were ejected
from the vehicle, Sherman said.
Police believe alcohol may
have been a contributing factor in
the crash. No charges have been
filed as the woman is in serious
the number of domestic vio-
lence cases recorded by Long-
mont police saw a 23.5% surge
in 2018 compared to reported
cases in 2017. The increase in
domestic violence cases has
sparked the hiring of another
detective and forced the safe
shelter to turn more callers
away. But, to Campanella and
others working to help victims,
BOULDER CANYON
A news release stated that the
changes come as part of the
agency’s “Whole System —
Whole Safety” initiative, and
were developed in an effort to
keep the Boulder- and Neder-
land-area communities informed
 
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condition in the hospital, Sher- crashed into Moden or the
man said. The sheriff’s office details of the crash. Officials on
does not provide updates on the Sunday said they expect more
condition of young children. information to be released to the
Moden was outside his patrol public on Monday.
vehicle at about 9:43 p.m. on I-70 Moden, a 12-year veteran of
near Deer Trail when another CSP, was described as a man who
driver crashed into him. He was always helped others, loved his
job and had a sense of humor.
airlifted and pronounced dead at He’s the fifth state trooper to
University of Colorado Hospital, be killed on Colorado roads since
according to Colorado State 2015.
Patrol. “It’s just another tragic, tragic
CSP has not released any loss of one of our troopers,” Sher-
information on the driver who man said.
NON-RESIDENTIAL
DEVELOPMENT
Lafayette to
introduce
affordable
housing fee
Cost proposed for 
$1 per square foot
BY ANTHONY HAHN
STAFF WRITER
Lafayette’s City Council on
Tuesday will introduce a fee on
new “non-residential” develop-
ment aimed at funneling money
toward the city’s affordable hous-
ing projects, less than a month
after city officials approved a
bump on the affordable housing
rate already placed on building
new homes.
Non-residential, defined under
municipal codes, typically refers
to commercial and industrial
development. According to a
staff report for the proposal, the
city would initially set the fee at
$1 per square foot of new devel-
Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer
opment.
The rollout is particularly time-
ly; Lafayette last week finalized
the city’s Nine Mile Corner pact
with Erie, freeing them up to ini-
tiate a large-scale commercial
site of their own at the southwest
corner of U.S. 287 and Arapahoe
Road.
The center alone is likely to
produce of a healthy portion of
commercial space — Stephen
Tebo, the owner of the property,
suggested last week preliminary
plans could include a hotel and
pad sites that stretch across the
property — that could pump
the numbers make them hope- funding into aspirational afford-
ful that more people are report- able housing projects.
ing domestic violence incidents The proposal comes also as the
region’s pursuit of commercial
to authorities, rather than
keeping them in the dark. activity has come, at least in part,
at the cost of housing and afford-
Throughout Campanella’s
experience serving the police ability general, officials say.
department, she has seen “Staff has found that non-resi-
domestic violence case num- dential development is associated
bers rise consistently since with the generation of new jobs,
which at various levels, including
Please see DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, 7A
Please see AFFORDABLE HOUSING, 7A
and safe while making their way companies.
through the work zone. CDOT is still in the early phas-
In an email, CDOT spokesman es of a $31 million repair and
Jared Field also said the change renovations project to a 15-mile
was driven by the fact that its stretch of Colo. 119, also known
contractor, Zak Dirt, had as Boulder Canyon Drive, to
switched communications Please see CDOT, 7A