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Conifer robotics team changes Denver teen’s life

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The wheelchair had been left on the side of County Highway 73 near Conifer High School, its seat worn, battery dead and a “free” sign affixed to it. Where most people may have seen trash, Mindy Hanson and her son Rhys saw possibilities. They stopped and loaded the wheelchair into their car.

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The Hansons took the chair to Conifer High School, home of robotics club Team Blitz. Rhys Hanson is a member, along with 8-12th grade and home-schooled students from the Conifer, Evergreen and Platte Canyon area.

Each year, Team Blitz members participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition, together designing, building, testing and competing with their team robot. Most mem-

bers have an interest in mechanical or electrical engineering, programming or marketing, so the challenge of rebuilding a wheelchair was a welcome one.

“We unloaded the wheelchair, and the next thing I knew, the students had almost completely disassembled it,” said Mindy Hanson, a club mentor. “They were busy cleaning it and assessing what needed to be repaired.

“They quickly realized a lot of the components were very simi-

lar to what they use to build their robots. It was a lightbulb for these kids to see that what they’re learning in robotics can also be used outside the lab,” she continued.

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Anita Springsteen moved that the city manager deny the in-lieu fee, but Mayor Paul said, “I’m not going to allow a vote on an illegal motion.” How is that?

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The big story here is that Lakewood has no public process for controlling development. scribed on the planning department’s website consisted of up to 3 members of city government, 3 representatives of the developer and 3 residents of Belmar Commons, a 45-unit townhome community closest to the project. It was unannounced, and no recording was made.

Instead, facilitator hired by the city took notes. Those notes did not include the names of any of the attendees.

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I interviewed Ramey Johnson, who served on Lakewood’s city council from 2010 to 2020, and she couldn’t think or any jurisdiction in which the governing body has ceded its authority over development to administrative staff the way Lakewood has. “It’s wrong,” she told me. She says that council has incrementally relinquished its power to administrative staff over many years.

She told how in 2003, in response to “angst” over CCU students living in residential areas, council passed an ordinance defining a “Student Living Unit.”

When the zoning ordinance was rewritten in 2012, Ramey noticed that definition had been deleted without pointing it out to the city council. Travis Parker, the director of planning, responded, “It wasn’t needed anymore.”

“The staff simply took out something that was voted by City Council,” Ramey said. “What else was deleted?”

Lakewood has among the lowest paid elected officials and highest paid staff of any city its size. City council members make $12,000, the mayor makes about $40,000, but the city manager makes about $350,000 (with benefits), and the department heads, like Parker, make over $200,000. Council members have no staff and no expense accounts. “We even have to buy the coffee for our ward meetings,” Anita Springsteen told me.

“This is a recipe for corruption,” She has studied the campaign finance disclosures of her fellow councilors and the mayor and told me that the lawyer representing the developer made a campaign contribution to Mayor Paul — and after the election, the chairman of her firm, Norman Brownstein, made a contribution to Paul’s campaign despite the fact that Paul was then term-limited.

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