North Ford Complete Street

Designing a Safer, More Connected Corridor

North Ford Street is a critical north-south corridor for the City and should provide accessible, connected and safe travel for all travel modes while serving the current needs and future goals of nearby neighborhoods and Golden residents.

The City of Golden has launched the North Ford Complete Street Design project, which aims to increase accessibility, connectivity and safety along the North Ford Street corridor between SH93 and 10th Street. The project design will:

• Improve the sidewalk immediately adjacent to the roadway
• Expand connectivity between Ford Street, Cressman Gulch Trail and Tucker Gulch Trail to create a comfortable and connected corridor for cyclists
• Implement traffic calming to address persistent speeding
• Craft a strategic parking design to serve the needs of residents while improving pedestrian visibility

Project Design Timeline

The first phase of the design project will begin by gathering public input on current transportation conditions and the goals and aspirations of the community for an improved corridor. Design alternatives will be shared with the community at a Fall 2025 open house with an accompanying survey, and opportunities for small group meetings that are neighborhood focused.

Phase 2 of the project, in Summer 2026, will share a refined corridor design based on community feedback and include an additional design open house.

Construction of the project is dependent on identifying local, state and/or federal funding.

Community Engagement Opportunities

Preferred Alternative Open House - January 28, 2026, 5:30 - 7:00PM at the Golden Community Center. The project team will present the preferred alternative that has been developed based on community feedback to date. This will be an opportunity for the neighborhood and project team to confirm the preferred alternative as the basis for future engineering design plans that will be developed in 2026.

The project will build on past traffic calming, speed limit and shared use path projects that have been completed along the corridor.

• Initial Community Survey - Open July 30 through August 18
• Preliminary Alternatives Analysis Open House (October 9, 2025)
• Preliminary Alternatives Analysis Community Survey (October 9 - 23, 2025)
• Neighborhood Small Group Meetings (December 4 and 11, 2025)
• Preferred Alternative Open House (January 28, 2026)
• Final Design Open House (July/August 2026)

Please contact Matt Wempe (mwempe@cityofgolden.net) or (303) 215-8884 if you, a person you are assisting, or an organization needs additional help to engage with our planning process due to limited access to technology, a disability or a language access need.

Póngase en contacto con (mwempe@cityofgolden.net) o (303) 215-8884 si usted, una persona a la que asiste o una organización necesita ayuda adicional para participar en nuestro proceso de planificación debido a un acceso limitado a la tecnología, una discapacidad o una necesidad de acceso lingüístico.