Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where do people in your community gather or socialize?
  - How and where does your community access services (healthcare, transportation, educational services, etc.)?

Examples of activities and services: Shopping areas, schools and universities, libraries, parks, lakes, rivers, places of worship, healthcare services, public transport, local nonprofit organizations, etc.

Your response: People in the community gather at schools (Bruce Randolph, Manual, Cole), Brother Jeff's, Welton Street, Curtis Park, Shorter Community AME Church, Globeville Landing Park, St Charles Rec Center, Glenarm Rec Center, Valdez-Perry Library, Sonny Lawson Park, Blair-Caldwell African American Library, Whittier Cafe, Park Hill Supermarket, Focus Points Family Resource Center, 38th and Blake light rail station, 29th and Downing light rail station,

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What are the cultural bonds in your community?
  - If your community has a shared history, what is it?

Examples of cultural or historical interests: Religious groups, ethnic groups, languages, age groups, immigration status, historic or arts districts, etc.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where are residents employed?
  - If there are environmental concerns in your community, what are they?

Examples of economic or environmental interests: Tourism industry, agricultural workers, mining town, manufacturing center, polluted natural resource, unemployment problem, etc.

Your response: Zip code 80216 is the most polluted zip code in the country (Suncor, Purina, superfund site, I-70 traffic)

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What should politicians and/or map drawers know about your community?
  - What are the needs of your community?
  - Is there anything else you want to tell us about your community?

Examples of needs or concerns: Keep community in the same district or separate into multiple districts, shared policy concerns, need for a social service, relationship to other nearby communities, issues with current district lines

Your response: The community is rapidly gentrifying, and many people of color and low-income people are being pushed further and further to the edges of the city or to the surrounding suburbs.