Be clever about it, as was the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in honor of their 50th anniversary last year. But you too can costume some young ladies behind a draped stand and ask them to hand out your event programs, complimentary sunflowers, coupons, or what have you. Be adventurous and go for a gorgeous butterfly costume, seen here on another side of the building. This young lady also handed out sunflowers.

Please let the world know about your street party or festival by sharing on our website. (It's a great free web page for you.) Use the form on the street parties page, which also links to what other people have sent us.

If you are in a growing community, see a piece about the the advantages and disadvantages of impact fees.

Another discusses benefits and pitfalls of forming a business improvement district, but mostly there are benefits.

Some of you are thinking right now about how to organize a neighborhood tour.

An important missing component of the website has been remedied with an article about site plan review that is appropriate if your community is thinking about deploying this tool, or maybe if you are in an uproar about too much of a good thing.

Among many improvements, we extracted code enforcement questions and answers and the questions about CDCs from a large volume of miscellaneous questions and answers onto a designated page for each. If interested in those topics, don't miss these new gateway pages.

I commented on a question about whether Colorado HOA covenants ever run out and whether major revisions are allowed. The bottom line is a close reading of the existing covenants is almost always required, but state law and state case law also are necessary reading. To know a correct answer, you need to consult a real estate attorney.

Another question concerned how the Capital Magnet Fund works.