![]() ![]() ![]() The funding of future open space purchases should not come at the expense of the Kanemoto neighbors, who have for four decades reasonably expected that a conservation easement found in the Boulder County land records would mean what it says: that it “shall prohibit the Grantor, his successors and assigns, from erecting or constructing any residential structures.”Ĭonservation easements should be held in trust for the public and extinguished only when their purpose becomes impossible to fulfill. Boulder County staff highlighted compensation to be paid by the developer into the county’s open space fund - an amount not disclosed at the hearing but which one Commissioner acknowledged was “substantial.” In terminating this 40-year-old easement on “nationally significant agricultural land,” these five Planning Board members (their names are on our firm’s blog) ignored the unanimous opposition of the public commenters who oppose the onslaught of urban sprawl from Longmont down the Diagonal towards Boulder. The Boulder County Planning Board on March 15 voted to extinguish an agricultural conservation easement along Airport Road near the Diagonal Highway to facilitate a densely-packed, 400-unit residential development called “Somerset Village.” Randall Weiner: Protected land: Conservation easements at risk in Boulder County
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