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Boulder mayor candidates, occupancy limits, Kanemoto conservation easement and more
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Boulder mayor candidates, occupancy limits, Kanemoto conservation easement and more
BOULDER – After a debate that lasted nearly four hours on Tuesday, Boulder County commissioners voted 2-1 to terminate a 41-year-old conservation easement on the southwest edge of Longmont, clearing the way for annexation of a 40-acre tract into that city and eventual construction of up to 426 “affordable” and “attainable” residential units. However, driven by the caution of commission chair Claire Levy, the panel added conditions designed to compel Bestall Collaborative to keep to its commitments to provide that lower-cost housing in its proposed Somerset Village development along...
It's a dispute that has flared up frequently as growth overtakes a northern Front Range corridor that was once dominated by agriculture.