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Lakewood unveils interactive e-plan for Envision Lakewood 2040
Summary
City planners launched compplan.lakewoodco.gov, an interactive, bilingual web version of the Envision Lakewood 2040 comprehensive plan that mirrors the adopted PDF and adds searchable goals, strategy filters, linked plans and glossary pop-ups to make plan content easier for staff, council and residents to use.
Christy Ivanoff, a principal planner with the planning division, publicly unveiled an interactive website version of Envision Lakewood 2040 on July 8, saying the site is meant to make the comprehensive plan "a game changer for how we use the comp plan." The new site (compplan.lakewoodco.gov) replicates the adopted PDF's organization—vision elements, five guiding principles, 25 goals and 160 strategies—while adding filters, strategy tagging and an embedded glossary.
Ivanoff demonstrated how the e-plan allows users to filter the 160 strategies by topic, then “expand all” to read full strategy text and follow linked references to related goals. She showed the future land use map with downloadable PDFs and highlighted a glossary pop-up that surfaces defined terms inline so readers need not jump to the back of the document. The site is fully available in Spanish, she said, and is designed to be mobile responsive.
The planner framed the e-plan as a tool for staff, elected officials and residents to find and cross-reference adopted plan content more quickly. "It follows the exact table of contents of the PDF and the e-plan," Ivanoff said, adding the site also links directly to other city plans referenced in the document so users can download supporting materials in one place. The planning commission thanked staff for the demonstration and said they expect the site to support public engagement and transparency.
Ivanoff said the city has begun tracking and reporting steps and will return later this year with a fuller update. The commission did not take any formal policy action; staff encouraged commissioners and the public to use the new site and to send questions or requests for additional data to the planning department.
