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Councilmembers report Link on Demand meeting, E‑470 plan and jump in capital cost estimate in master-plan update
Summary
Councilmembers reported attending a Link on Demand expansion meeting, discussed E‑470 work between I‑25 and Parker Road in the early 2030s, and noted an increase in the master-plan capital improvement estimate from about $1.3–$1.4 billion to about $2.5 billion due to inflation.
During reports at the Sept. 15, 2025 Parker Town Council meeting, councilmembers described recent regional transportation and planning discussions, including a Link on Demand expansion meeting, work on the regional master plan that references E‑470 improvements between Interstate 25 and Parker Road, and a substantial rise in the town’s capital-improvement estimate attributed to inflation.
"Last week, I attended a Link on Demand expansion meeting, which is basically a meeting, looking to improving, transit options within the county Douglas County," Councilmember Todd said, describing a county-level meeting about on‑demand transit services. Councilmember John reported on a master-plan session that identified projects to submit to DRCOG (the Denver Regional Council of Governments) and the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). "The task was to get a list of top 10 projects to submit to DRCOG and CDOT to see if we could get some projects on the plan," John said.
John said the master-plan discussion included an item affecting the E‑470 corridor: "E‑470 is gonna come down between, I‑25 and Parker Road sometime in the early 20 thirties to, to improve that segment." He added that the projects discussed in the plan currently carry no committed funding: "it's just a plan and no funding attached to that."
The council also heard an updated capital-improvement cost outlook. John said officials previously identified roughly $1.3 billion to $1.4 billion in known improvements but that the estimate has risen because of inflation. "When we redid that, in this light of, inflation, we're now at 2,500,000,000.0," he said; that figure is reported here as about $2.5 billion, consistent with John's remark.
Why it matters: projects entered in the regional plan could be eligible for future regional or state funding sources, and the higher cost estimate could affect the town’s long-term capital-program priorities. Councilmembers emphasized that the list is a planning exercise rather than a commitment of funds.
No formal council action or vote on any of these planning items occurred during the meeting; the updates were delivered as part of routine council reports.
