Pleasant View residents urge county to halt fast-tracked plan to turn Glow Park open space into dense housing

Pleasant View residents told the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners on Aug. 5 that a sudden state proposal to convert a portion of Camp George West known as Glow Park from a research-oriented plan to dense residential housing would harm local traffic, infrastructure, wildlife habitat and public trust.

Community members said the change — described by several speakers as a rapid repurposing of state-owned land — would bring hundreds of new residents and vehicles to a neighborhood that lacks sidewalks, full road improvements and adequate emergency access. Tammy Waller, district manager for Pleasant View Metropolitan District, told commissioners: "This project will potentially bring 700 to 1,000 people into 1 little park and that will have a significant impact not only on the district financially."

The residents’ comments outlined why the change matters to Pleasant View: Glow Park is one of the few nearby flat, accessible open spaces used daily for walking, sports and wildlife viewing; many neighbors say they were engaged by the original Glow Park vision and feel blindsided by the…