VOLUME 37 • NUMBER 22 • APRIL 25, 2019
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Smiles all-around as CHV cuts the ribbon Cherry Hills Village unveils new city hall
April 14 was the day the Cherry Hills Village had the ribbon cutting for the new $4.5 million city hall. Attending the ribbon cutting was Matt Hoster of WE O’Neil, Councilmember Afshin Safavi, Councilmember Mike Gallagher, architects with Cannon Design Katie Anderson and Steve Huff, Mayor Russell Stewart, former Councilmember Alex Brown, Mayor Pro Tem Katy Brown, former Councilmember Mark Griffin, Councilmember Al Blum, Councilmember Dan Sheldon, former Councilmember Earl Hoellen, former Mayor Mike Wozniak and Councilmember Randy Weil. Look for coverage of the ribbon cutting in next week’s Villager.
Mayor Russell Stewart presided over the ribbon cutting ceremony April 14, for the $4.3 new Cherry Hills Village City Hall structure complet-
ed on time and on budget. The new building is ADA compliant with modern security and safety features with a large parking area that can be shared with the new John Meade Park close to the new city hall and police facility.
The new city hall has a larger modern council chamber that doubles as the city courtroom and can be reserved for community events. The council chamber has an attached outdoor patio overlooking the ponds in
the John Meade park area. A smaller conference room can be reserved for community meetings called the “Three Pond Park” conference area. The building ows into administrative offices, conference rooms, break rooms
Photo by Bob Sweeney
and record storage areas. Stewart stated at the ribbon cutting ceremony, “We, you, should be very proud of what the Village has and will accomplish with this campus. This is an excellent example of good government.”
GV council takes another pass at a transportation plan On April 15 Greenwood Village public works staff and the appointed community working group (CWG) presented city council with an updated draft of 25 rank-ordered, proposed roadway projects, along with other strategies to improve city residents and employees’
ability to get around. Those include a circulator bus, wayfinding signs for the Orchard Light Rail Station, and sidewalk connections around the city. Roadway projects were given top priority because, Public Works Director Jeremy Hanak explained, “As you all saw on the citizen survey results that was the No. 1 category, to make roadway improvements.
When we asked citizens what four areas would you like to improve, loud and clear No. 1 was roadway improvements.” As we previously reported, GV’s survey consultants told city council Feb. 4 that when asked in late 2018 what was most important to them in the area of transportation improvements, 53 percent of respondents chose road capacity
(e.g., road widening) as their first or second priority and percent listed it in their top four. The top ranked project on the recommended list was East Orchard Road from the I-25 southbound off-ramp westbound to South Quebec Street. Hanak explained the problem, familiar to virtually all GV drivers. He said, “As you go westbound (on Orchard Road) from I-25 ….
you’re in a through lane. All of a sudden, you have to turn left at Greenwood Plaza Boulevard, so you get over a lane. Then you have to turn left again at Quebec Street. So how can we provide some lane balancing there, signage, to get people in the lanes they need to be in if they’re wanting to head west or turn?” Continued on page 9
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