The Belmar Park West (BPW) project is the 411 unit multifamily project proposed at 777 S Yarrow Street in Lakewood, CO adjacent to Belmar Park.
The goal of our petition at Change.org is to achieve a wildlife buffer area between Belmar Park and the proposed huge apartment complex.
Now the City of Lakewood has moved in our direction thanks to YOUR support.
The city council and the planning department are aware that thousands of you have signed this petition and keep signing it. The updated list of signatures has been provided to Lakewood City Council multiple times now because the petition size continues to grow as we approach 6,000 supporters. And we have received thanks from some on city council.
Lakewood has professional planners that review any major site plan (MSP). Professional planners look for deficiencies such as areas where a huge building does not have a reasonable transition zone to an adjacent park.
As a result, we have reached an inflection point where the developer’s proposal is simply ‘not approvable’ without that transition zone. The city now requires the developer’s project design team to revisit options to provide an appropriate park transition area!
The city even says if the transition zone is not possible, the developer should be prepared to explain to the Planning Commission why the building footprint and site layout were not modified to address staff’s comments.
Folks, please congratulate yourselves. We have gotten this far without expensive attorneys or asking people to donate thousands of dollars.
One local group even asked people for a quarter of a million dollars!
Frankly, we don’t think people need to be giving a lot of money to anyone because they say it is to benefit Belmar Park unless there are specific details explaining how much and exactly how the money will be used to benefit the park.
Please be careful whenever donating money to any charity for any cause. Not every charity uses your money efficiently.
With your support and just one person volunteering for free here sponsoring this petition and providing the website for this cause, together we have gotten this far and without asking for donations.
