Early plans for the new 100,000 capacity stadium being built on the West sides of La Alma-Lincoln Park and Baker, show the Walton-Penner development anticipating 15% of automobile traffic from the site to filter into the Baker neighborhood, along 3rd Avenue. 

In addition to being a sleepy residential street not wide enough to even support two sides of street parking, 3rd Ave bisects our quiet walkable neighborhood, and runs directly between the only entrances to our community's schools: Echinacea Montessori and DCIS Fairmont Elementary. The latter is also home to the neighborhood's largest playground. 

As drivers exit the stadium and nightlife district, they'll each face the choice between sitting in an additional 3 miles of I-25 gridlock by entering the highway at 6th Ave, or cutting through Baker's quiet residential streets to enter the highway at the South Broadway entrance.  Those who cut through will bring dangerous traffic, noise and air pollution to our community. These are conditions for which our streets were not designed and our community will not tolerate being used as a highway. 

We ask our city officials in the Mayor's office and City Council to arrange that the following be included in the Design Agreement they are negotiating with the Walton-Penner family ownership group, as a condition of the site rezoning: 

1. Restrict cut-through traffic from entering the residential portion of Baker via 3rd Ave. Route it instead along the very industrial Rio Grande Boulevard.
2. Protect our 36 legacy small businesses along South Santa Fe from displacement from the stadium's new Entertainment District. Major streetscape improvements are being built this November between 13th and 6th along Santa Fe Drive. We ask that those improvements be extended  down to 1st.  
3. Connect the residents of Baker, Wash Park, Cap Hill and Speer to the site, with sidewalk upgrades on Santa Fe and a protected bike lane and walking boulevard on 3rd Ave, between Osage & Santa Fe

Details of this proposal can be found at BakerBroncos.org.