Sharing is replacing owning— but what about regulation?
In Park Hill there is a charming home with the moniker Colfax Casita. The owner rents it out by the day ($145) or the month ($2,600) on airbnb.com. Lucky tenants get a free massage, to boot! The Casita is one of more than 1,000 opportunities in Denver to rent a room in someone’s home— or the whole house or apartment— by the day, without regard to zoning or fire codes, insurance, health and safety or any licensing requirements of the city, not to mention sales and lodging taxes.
But wait, there’s more!
Not only can you access your vacay home from next door (or your pet’s at dogvacay.com), you can share use of a Persian rug for your living room (neighborgoods.net) or borrow that Hermes bag for your special night (snapgoods.com), share fine art (artsicle.com), have breakfast with a neighbor in their home (eatwith.com), or get someone to go for take-out for you at midnight (taskrabbit.com). Your neighbor can change the oil in your car or tune your bike in her garage with an invented currency called Denver Dough (denver haho.org.)
You might be familiar with Uber, the limousine app where you can order a car on your smartphone app from a driver with his own black Town Car. The app will track where the car is and how soon it is going to arrive. Or you can use UberX, Zipcar, Ecocar, or Car2Go, etc., by the minute and/or mile, many with free parking in various areas of the city.
If you insist on owning your own car, you can find parking in someone’s driveway close to the Buell Theatre or Coors Field (parkingpan-