Parkland purchases

New parkland purchases
(Funding sources in parentheses; see key code below list)

  • 2018 -- 54.72 new acres for Peak View Park, 2350 S. Wadsworth Blvd.: OS, CTF, Grants (Jeffco Open Space) and city’s Capital Improvement Fund 
  • 2019 -- 0.84 additional acres for Walker-Branch Park, 5825 W. 16th Ave.: TABOR and Grant (Jeffco Open Space)
  • 2021 -- 6.92 additional acres for Bear Creek Greenbelt (Armstrong property), 9555 W. Cornell Place: TABOR and Grant (Jeffco Open Space)
  • 2021 -- 0.61 additional acres for Two Creeks Park, 1080 Wadsworth Blvd.: TABOR
  • 2021 -- 7.77 new acres of Porter Park for new park, 731 Tabor St.: TABOR
  • 2022 -- 3.03 additional acres for Bear Creek Greenbelt (O’Donnell property), 2951. S. Wadsworth Blvd.: TABOR and Grant (Jeffco Open Space)
  • 2022 -- 3.09 additional acres for Bear Creek Greenbelt (Roth property), 2965 S. Kipling St.: TABOR and Grant (Jeffco Open Space)
  • 2022 -- 36.9 new acres for Soda Lakes property, 14601 W. Hampden Ave.: TABOR and Grant (Jeffco Open Space)
  • 2022 -- 68.13 acres of Quaker Court added to William F. Hayden Park, 16205 W. Bayaud Dr. (Donation)
  • 2023 -- 1.51 acres for the Bear Creek Greenbelt, 2911 S. Wadsworth Blvd.: TABOR, grant application to be submitted to Jeffco Open Space.
  • 2023 -- 9.06 acres, 11050 W. 20th Ave.: TABOR, grant application to be submitted to Jeffco Open Space.

KEY:

OS = Open Space Funds that are the city’s share of county open space tax

NPP = Lakewood Neighborhood Participation Program

CDBG = federal Community Development Block Grant

TABOR = Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights funds

CTF = Conservation Trust Fund

GRANT = Jeffco Open Space, federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, State Historic Fund, etc.

ED = Economic Development

GF = General Fund