Colorado Revised Statutes Title 31. Government Municipal § 31-25-204. Acquisition by condemnation

(1) For the purpose of acquiring lands for parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and roads, the park commission is authorized, with the approval of the mayor, to select and, by a suitable proceeding in the name of the city, without the passage of any ordinance, condemn real estate or, with the approval of the mayor, to purchase any real estate so selected for one or more parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, or roads and to select routes and streets for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a system of connecting boulevards and pleasure ways or parkways therein. All such condemnation proceedings shall be in accordance with the general laws of the state insofar as the same are applicable, but the benefit to other lands shall be ascertained and assessed.

(2) Payment for any acquisition provided in subsection (1) of this section may be paid for by special assessments upon all the other real estate, except parks, pleasure grounds, avenues, boulevards, streets, and roads in such city or partly out of the proceeds of the sale of the general bonds of the city, in accordance with the powers conferred by this part 2, and partly by such assessments, as the same may be determined by the mayor and park commission.