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Parks board backs Westlake Avenue as pilot for lake-access street-end improvements
Summary
Lakewood Parks & Recreation Advisory Board recommended Westlake Avenue as the pilot site for a street-end enhancement program intended to improve equitable, low‑impact lake access and provide one ADA-accessible point per lake; staff will prepare a staff report for council in September.
The Lakewood Parks & Recreation Advisory Board voted to recommend Westlake Avenue as the pilot project for a citywide street-end enhancement program, aiming to show how modest, low‑impact improvements can expand public access and protective shoreline treatments.
Board members and staff spent the July 23 meeting reviewing a 2022 update to an earlier street-end study that assessed 12 candidate sites across four lakes. Presenter and project consultant summarized the study’s goals as improving water access, equity and safety while minimizing vegetation loss and neighborhood impacts. “We really just most of the sites have very passive use,…
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