Lakewood City Manager Retiring
Lakewood City Manager Kathy Hodgson has announced her retirement. The position will be filled by an Executive Search firm. The Request For Proposals for the search firm appeared Thursday and will close April 27, 2026.
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City Officials Celebrate Navigation Center Reopening
The City of Lakewood will host a media event on Friday, April 3, 2026, to mark the grand reopening of its Navigation Center. City officials are expected to participate in photo opportunities, give interviews, and serve lunch to individuals receiving services and staff. But while the city celebrates, key questions remain unanswered and more neighborhood problems are anticipated.
Social Housing Agenda Exposed
Is new zoning about making it easier for teachers and firefighters to pay for housing? Or is it about making teachers and firefighters pay for someone else? Is housing a commodity or a right? “Social housing” is public housing based on the belief that housing is a right. Information available shows that re-zoning is necessary to implement social housing. Social housing increases the tax burden on the missing middle class by imposing more taxes to fund subsidies. The missing middle is who Lakewood is hoping to convince to support the new zoning, although they may be the ones paying in the end.
Zoning Overrides HOA Rules
Homeowners Associations (HOAs) mistakenly believe their rules will shield them from the new zoning. However, new zoning will override individual HOA rules
ArchWell Health Responds to Demand with 4th Center Opening
Large crowds expected Tues. March 24th as seniors 60+, families, and caregivers celebrate the Grand Opening of ArchWell Health with food, entertainment, valuable raffle prizes, center tours, elected officials, and answers for better healthcare.
Homelessness Increasing With Increased Spending
Increased homelessness is causing neighbors to be concerned while Lakewood continues to increase spending, suggesting that spending on homelessness only draws more homeless to Lakewood. This situation is well documented in San Francisco, Denver and Lakewood. Helping people become self-reliant is secondary to paying for housing – the same failed strategy employed in these other cities.
Inability to Rebuild Single-Family Home Shows Lakewood Prioritizes Density Over All
When a Lakewood resident bought a burned-out single-family house to rehabilitate it, he had no idea Lakewood would say no. The house had been vacant and neglected, allowing homeless to move in and cause a fire. The result is an unusable, dangerous eyesore. But those considerations were not as important to Lakewood as changing the property to high-density.
Lakewood Councilors Working to Undermine Zoning Limits Already
The Lakewood City Council Legislative Committee supports two state bills that would override Lakewood zoning code limits: HB26-1001 and HB26-1114. These state bills would further densify Lakewood regardless of the April 7 special election vote on new zoning densification, suggesting Committee Members are ignoring the will of the people.
Who Are You Gonna Call?
No, not when you see pink slime coming out of your bath tub faucet. When shit backs up in your basement. Probably a plumber, who will tell you it’s $500 just to come out and have a look (since this will probably happen around 2:37 AM, on a Saturday night/morning). And, a few days later, once the shock of the damage wears off a little bit and anger starts settings in, you’ll probably get on the phone with your local water and sanitation district.
Lakewood Representatives Using Position To Advance Democrat Agenda Without Benefit To Lakewood
“This won’t impact Lakewood,” say City Councilors at the February 26, 2026, Legislative Committee meeting. Nevertheless, the committee supported a total of four state legislative bills citing regional benefit or planting a flag for Democrat leadership. Without a solid benefit to Lakewood, it is unclear whether lobbying at the state level is representing city interests or personal beliefs.