Lakewood voters get final say over high-density zoning changes
Lakewood - A citizen-initiated effort to repeal a set of city-wide, high-density zoning ordinances passed by Lakewood City Council in 2025 has made it on the ballot and will be voted on in a special election in April...
Lakewood Citizen’s Alliance, a grassroots advocacy group, filed four separate referendums to repeal the ordinances. All four gained the required signatures and were approved in January to go to a vote in a special election on April 7.
Karen Gordey, campaign manager for the Alliance, stresses the stakes of the election as the elimination of single-family zoning in pursuit of pushing people into a lifestyle preferred by progressive policymakers.
“What the zoning ordinance does is simply a blanket of zoning of the entire city, so it goes farther than the state mandates of higher density around the transit corridors,” Gordey told Complete Colorado. “This allows lots to be split. They went from the original zoning and changed that to residential dwelling, so that essentially eliminates one house per lot, it eliminates single family zoning.”...
How much subsidized housing burden is going to be put on taxpayers?...
A “yes” vote repeals the ordinances.
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