Looking at what is going on in Lakewood, it appears people (especially the majority of city council) are missing the big picture.  I watched several of the city council candidate's interviews (http://www.lakewood.org/Lakewood8/) and the first question out of the box was, "Do you support the growth initiative?".  Each candidate gave their prepared response but not a single one of them addressed the real issue or question which is, why did a group of citizens take time out of their personal lives, time away from their families to collect a significant amount of signatures to limit the growth in Lakewood.  The answer is, because city council is not listening to them.  This is not just a few individuals who are having the problem with the growth they are seeing in Lakewood, there is a significant number of residence of Lakewood that are concerned and city council, in the residence opinion, is blowing them off, I'm sorry to say, city council;s main job is to represent the people.