AURORA | City lawmakers tonight will consider advancing a new Socioeconomic Impact Permit that would regulate the density and operations of certain businesses linked to blight and crime in lower-income neighborhoods. It’s part of a growing effort to balance retail development and public safety along corridors such as East Colfax.

“When you have these concentrated sales and services that are targeted, sometimes called poverty industry or predatory economics, towards lower income or historically disadvantaged communities, it gives you a feeling of social disorder and blight,” Trevor Vaughn, manager of licensing and finance, said during a Public Safety, Courts and Civil Service Policy Committee meeting in September.

The proposed Socioeconomic Impact Permit would apply to certain retail ope

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