My vision for Golden: We maintain Golden’s historic and small town
character while ensuring that our economy thrives. We continue
nurturing our arts and cultural communities. Golden becomes a national
leader in renewable energy and energy efficiency (and saves taxpayer
dollars along the way) and we remain a model of effective, inclusive,
and fiscally responsible city government.
These are my top priorities for 2007:
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My vision for Golden: We maintain Golden's historic and small town
character while ensuring that our economy thrives. We continue
nurturing our arts and cultural communities. Golden becomes a national
leader in renewable energy and energy efficiency (and saves taxpayer
dollars along the way) and we remain a model of effective, inclusive,
and fiscally responsible city government.
These are my top priorities for 2008:
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Golden Sustainability Initiative |
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Adopt a Golden Sustainability Initiative that identifies ambitious ten-year city and community goals for increasing energy efficiency, increasing our use of renewable energy, reducing the city’s energy costs, creating economic opportunities, improving our quality of life, and reducing our environmental impact.
Status: Our community forum in February drew more than 200 people and sixty members of the community are active in the community working groups. The community working groups will present their recommendations to city council later this summer.
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Complete neighborhood planning processes in the 8th & 9th Street Neighborhood, the East Street Neighborhood, and the neighborhood north of Highway 58. Adopt neighborhood plans for each that are mostly supported by most of the residents.
Status: The planning process for the 8th and 9th St. Neighborhood is nearing completion, the North Golden process just started, and the East Street neighborhood process should start soon.
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Downtown Golden Character Plan |
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Adopt
a Downtown Golden Character Plan and revised Golden Urban Renewal
Plan that emphasizes the following goals:
- economic health and vitality while ensuring the preservation and
maintenance of downtown Golden’s historic character;
- walkability and bikeability;
- support for our locally-owned businesses;
- support for our thriving arts and culture communities;
- compact and thoughtful redevelopment east of Washington with high
quality multi-use infill developments while preserving the character
of Washington St. and the nearby historic neighborhoods;
- high quality public space;
- providing for a future light rail station; and
- high quality gateways.
Status: We are about midway through this effort.
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Responsible Transportation Solutions in the Northwest Quadrant |
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Protect our community from the plan for a high-speed superhighway through Golden and advance a responsible transportation solution that addresses regional transportation challenges while protecting the impacted communities.
Status:
Ongoing (and going well).
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