In early 2026, Baker neighborhood residents organized to complete the Small Area Plan survey before its March 31st, 2026 deadline. This page preserves that campaign and the resources we created to make it easy for neighbors to participate.
The Burnham Yard Small Area Plan will shape how traffic, bikes, and pedestrians move through our neighborhood for generations. The Denver Broncos stadium redevelopment alone covers 150 acres, and early renderings show event-day traffic funneling into Baker's residential streets.
The city collected public input through March 2026, before decisions were finalized. We did the homework. Our guide told neighbors exactly what to say.
We've prepared the answers. All you have to do is get through the survey.
Open the survey in a new tab or scan the QR code on our flyer. It takes about 10-15 minutes.
When asked which topics to give feedback on, select Quality of Life and Mobility. These are where our unified answers matter most. Land Use questions (1-5) don't have a unified response and can be confusing, so feel free to skip that section or answer based on your own values.
Scroll down for our recommended answers to every question. For a few key questions, we've written comment text you can copy and paste directly into the survey.
Sign up to hear about the next call to action. We are in this for the long haul, and it is absolutely critical to prove to the officials we petition that we have voters who care about this. Please join us, and be available to fill out the occasional survey and petition, to help us preserve our community's way of life as we know it.
These are the answers Baker neighbors coordinated on. The Mobility section is the most critical. Prioritize it if you're short on time, and don't be afraid to skip questions. Filled chips are our recommendations. Questions marked "skip or answer freely" don't have a unified response. You can skip them entirely or answer based on your own values.
This rendering shows how event traffic would flow through Baker's residential streets, and what we're proposing instead.
Restricting stadium and entertainment district traffic from Baker's quiet residential streets
stopping stadium traffic from driving through Baker neighborhood streets, especially 3rd & Bayaud
Busy and unsafe cut-through traffic driving through quiet Baker neighborhood streets
The survey closed on March 31, 2026, but the work to protect Baker is just getting started. See what we're focused on now.
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Early renderings show tens of thousands of cars traveling through the narrow residential streets of Baker neighborhood, directly past the only entrance to our elementary school, past the only entrance of a Montessori preschool, and within close proximity of our largest park, Dailey. This will create dangerous congestion and unhealthy noise and air pollution. We demand instead that traffic coming south on Osage be restricted from turning east onto 3rd Ave or Bayaud, and instead be routed down Rio Grande and Kalamath to the nearest major road. Along 3rd between Osage and Santa Fe, we propose a two-way protected bike lane wide enough to accommodate passing bike taxis. This would be used to safely and comfortably shuttle visitors and residents between the complex, businesses on South Santa Fe, businesses on South Broadway and through the Baker neighborhood.