EVERGREEN — The Evergreen area’s top assets are its parks and wildlife. Residents would like to see more opportunities for affordable and continuum housing and downtown development. And its top constraints include wildfire risk, lack of a local government and a NIMBY — not in my backyard — mindset.
Those were some of the conclusions drawn at a meeting Tuesday night for the .
However, of the approximately 24,750 residents the county said lives in the area (according to the 2010 census), input came from about 28 who came to the meeting.
“Anytime we get more than 20, it’s a victory,” said Russell Clark, the senior planner hosting the meetings, which will continue through 2015 . He said they try their best to advertise the process but it is difficult to generate interest in early stages such as this one.
A community plan is a guiding document for land use that officials can look to when fielding things such as rezoning requests and area needs, Clark said.
The meeting was part of . It is rewriting area plans that will help guide the county-wide plan, and Evergreen and Conifer are the final areas to be surveyed to that end.
There have been other more educational meetings, but this one was a “visioning and mapping exercise” where residents were asked to identify their community’s greatest assets, opportunities they would like to see in their community and the constraints that come are obstacles to those opportunities. The process allowed them to name three in each category and write in specifics.
Josie Klemaier: 303-954-2465, jklemaier@denverpost.com or twitter.com/JosieKlemaier
Next evergreen area community plan meeting
6-8 p.m. Oct. 21 at Evergreen Fire Admin Building 1802 Bergen Parkway
Conifer/285 corridor area plan update meeting
6:30-8:30 p.m. at Conifer Community Chich, 9998 Havekost Road
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