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Radiant Painting & Lighting

January 6, 2025/

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Lakewood’s Gross Misinterpretation

January 5, 2025/

From Cathy Kentner This week it came to light that the city of Lakewood is disseminating purposeful and gross misinterpretations of the new parkland dedication ordinance. City officials have made the decision to require land dedication for the replacement of a single family home while blaming it on the recently passed Save Open Space Green Initiative.  And, what is even more ridiculous, they have told a landowner they must create an easement, a part of their yard, that would be open to the general public. This is clearly not what the new ordinance states. 1. The parkland dedication ordinance does not require land dedication when an individual is replacing a single family home with another single family home. For decades the parkland dedication ordinance, and resulting formula, has been based on the number of anticipated residents added to the city. Therefore, when replacing a single family home with another single family home, no land dedication is required because there are no residents being added. 2. The parkland dedication ordinance does not require an easement for public access on private property. Even if the city were to erroneously require land dedication, the ordinance clearly states “The land area that may remain in private ownership must be added to the project’s open space requirement…”  The open space requirement on a home does not require an easement open to the public. It would seem that the City is deliberately putting up an unnecessary barrier for a single family home replacement and blaming it on the...

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Wheat Ridge Development Notice

January 5, 2025/

A Wheat Ridge resident reached out for help on development issues on 32nd, just west of McIntyre. Development application signs are posted on the land around the Mormon church there. There are reportedly similar signs along South Golden Road, West 8th Ave, and Ford Stree in Golden. Multi-family units are coming to lots of places and residents have made the same complaints to the city as Lakewood residents have to no avail. The hearings are open to the public. Update: West Metro Housing is the developer

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Whippoorwill Withdrawn

January 5, 2025/

From Jonna Helm, as of November (apologies for the delayed posting) After 18-months of the community sharing concerns surrounding the site suitability and safety issues with the entrance and exit through Youngfield St for the proposed development on Whippoorwill Dr (Williams Pointe apartments), the developer has officially withdrawn their major site plan application and canceled their building permit application with the City of Lakewood.   Over the course of the last year, the development underwent six separate major site plan reviews with the City of Lakewood’s Planning Department. At the time that the developer withdrew the major site plan application, the site plans still had challenges that had not been rectified, and the plans were not approved.  During the last snowstorm, we shared with the developer’s board members and city staff, yet again, multiple incidences of vehicles unable to make it up W. 15th Place, which is the location that the developer chose for the sole entrance and exit for the apartments.      As one resident wrote to the developer’s board members in response to our email: “ Thank you so much for sharing these events which highlight the issues we’re facing in what’s only the beginning of our winter season. It’s blatant negligence at this point for the city to ignore our concerns and move forward with W 15th Pl as the ingress/egress for the Williams Point project and I truly hope they make an impact, before it’s too late”. The following day, we received multiple emails from the developer....

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Lakewood Crime for December

January 5, 2025/

Maps clipped from Community Crime Map for the month of December, 2024, in Lakewood, Colorado. Note: Statistics seem to vary slightly per application (density map versus event map). This website is very user friendly and can be zoomed in for better detail although exact locations are changed for privacy. Compare to December of 2023 below. Note that comparison is done visually since numbers for “Lakewood” include parts of of Denver, which doubles the number of crimes.

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Olver Resigns

January 3, 2025/

Update, Jan 5, 2025: Rich Olver wants people to know that he didn’t resign because he moved. He moved because he resigned what he thinks is a worthless job. Lakewood City Council Member Rich Olver resigned from council as of December 30, 2024. He has sold his house in Ward 4 and anticipates moving to Arizona. A special election will be held for his seat, as well as the seat held by Ward 3 Councilor, Rebekah Stewart. Stewart won her race for the Colorado House and has vacated her seat. The details of that special election will be decided January 6, 2025. Both positions will be subject to re-election in the November regular election. Are you interested in running for City Council? Let us know!

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