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City Population: 71,093 Urbanized Area: 72,929 Metropolitan Area: Part of Boulder Distance From Denver: 37 miles |
Total Photos: 63
Downtown - 25 pictures Prospect - 36 pictures Other - 2 pictures |
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Located along the US 287 corridor between Boulder and Fort Collins, Longmont is one of the few cities on the Front Range still actively seeking growth. As such, the city has increased in population by 40% over the last 10 years, significantly faster than any other major Colorado city.
Downtown Longmont follows a linear alignment along Main Street. It’s kind of weird. With the exception of a short area around 3rd Street it’s only a single block wide, but several long. Main Street itself isn’t bad, though heavy auto traffic can make it difficult to navigate as a pedestrian.
Longmont has also become well known to state planners as the home of Prospect, Colorado's most high profile new urbanist community to date. UC isn’t particularly crazy about Prospect. The vast majority of units remain single-family detached, uses still seem pretty segregated (although the town square section had yet to be built as of our last visit), and generally speaking it appears considerably more attention was paid to fancy architecture rather than good planning. That’s not to say we don’t like New Urbanism, just that in the case of Prospect it’s more like New Suburbanism.
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