Residents press Littleton for quick Littleton Boulevard crosswalks; brewery noise and street parking strain nearby blocks

Residents and council members urged the city on April 1 to move more quickly to install safer pedestrian crossings on Littleton Boulevard near the new Littleton Brewing Company and other businesses, and they described secondary problems of noise and overflow parking spilling into adjacent residential blocks.

“Littleton Boulevard has very few crosswalks…people will choose the easiest pathway. And in this instance that is unsafely crossing Littleton Boulevard,” said Keely Quinn, a District 2 resident who asked the council to prioritize a quick fix at the crossing between Gallup and Forest Hill near Lost Coffee and the new brewery. Jose Briones, another resident, recounted seeing people “playing Frogger” at the intersection and said he worried about weekend crossings by people who may have been drinking.

Neighbor Dee Bohm, who lives on Forest Hill Street, said on‑street parking tied to brewery patrons has made daily life more difficult: residents said they now move cars daily to preserve spaces, find privacy reduced, and reported increased litter, dog waste and public urination or vomiting. “Our quiet, peaceful neighborhood is gone,” Bohm said, and urged restricted parking on Forest Hill and better outreach from the business on alternate parking options.

Several speakers and council members connected short‑term safety measures to longer‑term planning for the Littleton Boulevard subarea; Aaron Rosales Burger suggested reviewing shared‑parking rules and conducting a parking survey to unlock off‑street parking capacity so businesses need not rely on neighborhood street parking.

City staff said the transportation planning and engineering team has been on site evaluating the safest location for a potential new crosswalk and expects to return recommendations within weeks. The city manager also said the code compliance team has been working with the brewery on noise and that the police chief is exploring options to increase parking enforcement capacity, including contract solutions to supplement staff.

No formal council action was taken. Council members repeatedly urged staff to act sooner rather than waiting for long‑range subarea planning; staff emphasized that a targeted crosswalk or signalized crossing can be implemented incrementally and does not necessarily preclude a later, larger reconfiguration of the corridor.