Planning Director’s Decision is “Arbitrary and Capricious”
Information provided by Jonna Helm Updated July 28: Public Hearing set for 8/21 at 7pm Lakewood residents have filed an appeal to approval of the subdivision for 1515 Whippoorwill Dr under the following basis: The Planning Department will now turn this over to the Planning Commission for a public hearing. Despite this not being a subdivision but a merger, the City is using the subdivision standards to evaluate the approval of the merger. In review of the subdivision standards, there are numerous other violations to the subdivision criteria and the bullets above are just a broad stroke of the issues that we will be addressed during public hearing. See the formal appeal here, which alleges several improper processes and decisions. Residents anticipate that the hearing date will be sometime mid to late August or early September and ask for support by sharing concerns as with regards to safety of the street access, lack of public transportation, traffic control patterns and street connectivity in the subdivision ordinance: Sign the petition: Change.org Here are just a couple of photo examples to illustrate the traffic problems on the blind curve. Unfortunately, there are no plans to mitigate these issues. Video of one of many vehicles that get stuck or can’t up W. 15th Place in winter conditions. This car tried for over 2 minutes to get up W. 15th Place and never made it. Today only a few cars access W. 15th Place but what happens when there are 300 trips per day with a single entrance and exit to the apartments through this intersection? The City and Developers have no answers.