A new wave of urban visionaries wants all Coloradans to live closer together — and is willing to trample long-standing local laws to get us there. They’ve been making inroads.
But last week, the citizens of Colorado’s fifth-largest city said, “No thanks.” Lakewood voters overwhelmingly turned back a controversial policy adopted by their city council in October to scrap zoning rules that long have safeguarded quality of life in generations-old neighborhoods.
The Lakewood vote followed a similar, popular uprising last November in Littleton. There, voters amended their city charter to ensure current zoning would remain in effect after their city council had taken steps to undermine zoning in the historic town…