Golden Transcript 07-22-21

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July 22, 2021

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JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO

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VOLUME 155 | ISSUE 31

GHS GRAD GOING FOR GOLD

Perlmutter eyes $7.6M of funding for district Golden, Lakewood and Arvada-based projects would benefit if bill passes BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Jonathan Hostager, a project manager with Colcon who presented on behalf of the company during the meeting, said during the meeting that a new senior living facility called Rolling Hills Senior Living would fill a gaping need in the area. Currently, there are no such senior facilities in the nearby Applewood West and Pleasant View areas. “Those that are reaching an age where they desire to be in a facility such as ours will not be able to

Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) announced the inclusion of all 10 of his Community Project Funding (CPF) requests, totaling $7.6 million, in initial House appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2022. According to Ashley Verville, Perlmutter’s communications director, the bills are likely to be voted on in the U.S. House in September. If passed in the Perlmutter House, they would move to the Senate for final approval before being signed into law by President Biden. Several Jeffco-based projects would see funding from Perlmutter’s requests if the appropriations bills make it to the President’s desk. If approved, $2.32 million of that money will go to the City of Golden to complete the design of State Highway 93 improvements from the U.S. 6 intersection north to the Golden city limits. According to the funding request Golden submitted, this section of

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Olympic gymnast Yul Moldauer is an Arvada native who graduated from Golden High School and will be competing in the Tokyo PHOTO BY ALISON CHENG/USA GYMNASTICS Olympics. Story on Page 19.

Senior living proposed on former LDS church site Applewood location currently lacks facility BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A development company wants to build a facility for aging seniors on the former site of the LDS church at West 32nd Avenue and McIntyre Street. On June 11, Colcon Development hosted a digital community meeting where a representative stated

that the company intends to file an application to rezone about 7 acres of property on the northwest side of that intersection to construct the facility. That proposed facility would include assisted living, independent living and memory care sections. Colcon wants to rezone both properties to a planned development, a customizable zoning category that could be tailored to allow such senior living uses on the site. That rezoning process must be completed before Aardex can move forward with the facility.

INSIDE: VOICES: PAGE 12 | LIFE: PAGE 14 | CALENDAR: PAGE 17 | SPORTS: PAGE 19

ON AN UPSWING

Pickleball is still popular among seniors, but now younger generations are discovering the sport

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