The CONIFER LOOP ACCESS PLAN is a vision of the future of Conifer.
It includes a roadway extension, connecting the three separate shopping centers in Conifer and Aspen Park, plus extensive landscaping and development including outdoor plazas, community gardens and more. These ideas come from community residents’ input on surveys, dating back to 2006.
These visionary plan concepts are codified in the current Jeffco Comprehensive Plan, Conifer/285 Corridor Area Plan (page 28). Download and view a PDF of this plan.
Key excerpts include:
- Extending Main Street from Meyer Parkway to Pleasant Park Road. *Note-this envisions linking the Aspen Park/Conifer Village Center with Conifer Town Center and Conifer Marketplace shopping centers.
- The intention of this loop is not for it to be a “Main Street” with businesses all along it, but rather to offer people the option of traveling to existing businesses, services, neighborhoods, churches, schools, and parks without getting onto the highway. It would be a 2 lane, 2-way service road that would also offer safer alternative transportation options such as pedestrian and bicycle paths or routes.
- Development or redevelopment along the loop road should consider creating community gathering spaces, such as outdoor plazas, restaurants with outdoor patios, community gardens, outdoor amphitheaters, playgrounds, botanic gardens, skateboard parks, climbing walls, and other similar use. These spaces should have both sod and natural areas and provide the opportunity for both active and passive recreation.
- The financial and construction feasibility of the main street extension is debatable.
- The Main Street extension portion of the loop may need further study and input from the Jefferson County staff, CDOT and the community to determine an acceptable location for the roadway or if it can be done at all.
