Lakewood Informer

Resident generated news about Lakewood, Colorado

Lakewood Informer

Resident generated news about Lakewood, Colorado

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911 Calls Show Deteriorating Conditions Around Navigation Center

By Lakewood News from KarenPosted on Posted in Business, Homeless, TransparencyTagged , , , , ,

Why hasn’t Lakewood done a safety analysis to show there is no substantial harm in giving the Navigation Center a special use permit? Lakewood is not protecting the current residents and business interests, which is just as important as serving regional homeless. The desire to do good is only half the equation. Demonstrating this use will not substantially impair nearby properties is the other half.

The map above shows the number of 911 calls made to the highlighted address since September 2023. This map is incomplete where property addresses did not match Lakewood database. You can see the high number of calls made to the Navigation Center property compared to other properties in the half-mile radius. 

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Eye of Sauron now turns to Economic Development

By Lakewood News from KarenPosted on Posted in BusinessTagged , , , , ,

by Somebody Should Do Something
Having lost the special election on the 7th of April, by an almost 2 to 1 margin (despite having enormous financial backing from the real estate interests – more on that elsewhere), Lakewood’s Eye of Sauron now turns to economic development. Not that Lakewood has been doing anything of the sort.
In case you missed the memo, “In Colorado, an annual salary for a single adult needs to be at least $105,955, using the 50/30/20 budgeting rule. For a family of four, $273,728 is needed annually to live comfortably in Colorado.” Of course, if you look at the economic statistics for Lakewood – not even close an average resident is.

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The Great Colorado Extraction

By Lakewood News from KarenPosted on Posted in BusinessTagged , , , , , , , ,

“Colorado is losing businesses and jobs at an alarming rate.”

Bold strategy, Cotton—let’s see if it pays off. But honestly, what did anyone expect?

It’s not just a “tough” regulatory environment chasing companies away. It is a systemic preference for extraction over production. As in – how much rent, metro district fees and real estate fees can be extracted from the residents? For nearly two decades (or longer), Colorado’s leadership—a revolving door of real-estate-industry lackeys, municipal bureaucrats, and the “useful idiots” yapping about “affordable housing” and virtue signaling – has bent over backward to prioritize real estate developer margins at the expense of actual economic development.

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