Forget about the new Lakewood zoning code bringing down housing costs!
This tiny 6,150 square foot vacant lot in Lakewood now asking over $1,000,000!
City council has legalized building out of scale projects in many neighborhoods where such projects used to be illegal. Many view this as uncontrolled development.
Notice what the neighborhood looks like. Single family homes. Now the neighborhood will have these enormous, out-of-scale multifamily structures to live with.
This could be your neighborhood under the new zoning law Lakewood just passed which allows buildings up to 35 feet tall in many residential areas (including RLA, RLB, and RLC).
And do you mind vehicles parking on the sidewalk and in No Parking zones? The same developer (Highland Development) was a major developer in the West Line Village project where Lakewood has reported major parking issues. Now that there are no parking minimums, the Lakewood parking problems will likely get even worse.
Here is how Lakewood described parking at West Line Village:
“Many cars were observed parked illegally on sidewalks and in no parking zones in West Line Village area.” p9 of Lakewood’s 2023 Parking Study
Under the new zoning code, large, out-of-scale projects can now happen almost anywhere in Lakewood. Even next to parks. And next to open space. Because Lakewood also totally ignored the petition with over 7,000 signatures asking to protect those areas with a law modeled after Fort Collins. A PhD biologist attended a city council meeting and told them it was the right thing to do. That fell on the deaf ears of city council.
Yes, the seller has pre-paid tap fees and permits and will give you plans to build 9 more attached units like the multifamily building shown next door. But isn’t $1,170,000 still a bit much for just 1/7 of an acre? They could at least mow the weeds.
