Lakewood Advisory Commission process

In 2020 and 2021, the Lakewood Advisory Commission collaborated with staff to assess missing or inadequate pedestrian, bicycle, and trail connections, considering a series of criteria. The assessment was based on a list of requested segments generated by the public, and it was not a comprehensive inventory of all missing sidewalk segments in the city.

This resulted in a variety of tools (spreadsheets, maps, etc.) that city staff could use to prioritize building new segments of sidewalks or shared-use paths. Recommending specific project priorities was outside the purview of the commission. Since that time, Public Works staff have continued to document requests for new sidewalks from the public.