Flyer with title "Lakewood's New Zoning Code Protects Our Environment and Our Neighborhoods" overlain with word bubbles to fact-check each claim. Top right has overlain title, "Fact Check: Too many lies. VOTE YES by April 7." Claims and bubbles are listed below: 1. Protects Our Environment - More dense development will pollute the environment and drive up the cost of water. 2. Protects Our...Neighborhoods - No neighborhood protections are in any of the four zoning ordinances. 3. Environmental Protections Are Under Threat - See #1 above. 4. We Deserve a More Affordable and Sustainable Lakewood - No requirements for affordable housing or protections for existing starter homes are in the ordinances. 5. New GOP "Dark Money" Group Attacking Lakewood - LOLOLOL! Developer and real estate money paid for this flyer. 6. Photo of Brittany Pettersen - Hi, I've been lobbied to endorse this. Don't mind me. 7. Denver Post excerpt to "Vote 'No' to limit new home sizes to 5,000 square feet and urge the conversion of vacant and underused commercial buildings to housing" - Hides the most damaging parts of the ordinances. Find the facts on GreenMountainWater.org ad Lakewood.co.gov.
A David and Goliath story is playing out in #Lakewood Colorado where big developer money wants to keep blanket #rezoning to #densify and #gentrify the city, but grassroots groups got a repeal up for a vote. Here's the first fluff piece from developers, fact-checked on NextDoor. Vote Yes by April 7.
