Re: “” Sept. 20 Cathy Kentner guest commentary.
Cathy Kentner is wrong that her misleadingly named “Strategic Growth Initiative” is good for Lakewood.
Limiting annual residential growth to 1 percent does nothing to strategically address valid concerns about residential-only projects being built in “Multi-Use” zones. City Council already can, and should, review the zoning code to close this loophole.
It isn’t “unabashed speculation” when the mayor states that limiting growth will make housing more expensive. This is the actual, real-world result of Boulder’s and Golden’s longstanding experiment with an identical 1 percent growth cap. The initiative’s set-aside for affordable housing allocations is a drop in the bucket compared to the middle-class, market-rate housing that will never get built under this initiative.
Most of Lakewood’s designated “blighted” areas are commercial, so the initiative’s exemption of them is useless. Itap laughable to read Kentner’s correct observation that “when supply increases, prices generally moderate” when she herself wants to limit supply. Vote no.
ٱ𱹱ܳ, Lakewood
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