Posts Tagged ‘jefferson parkway’
Open Letter to the Boulder County Commissioners: Jefferson Parkway
I intended to be present yesterday, Tuesday, April 26, when you made the fateful decision that Boulder County Commissioners will no longer oppose the Jefferson Parkway. But I could find no information anywhere on the County Commissioners' web site [...]
Denver Post | Jeffco talks to Spanish firm about toll road
Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority officials said Monday that they are talking to a Madrid-based construction firm Isolux Corsán about financing, building and operating the 10-mile toll road in Jefferson County.The authority has touted the [...]
Denver Post | Jefferson Parkway authority to buy Rocky Flats parcel
Jefferson Parkway directors, who represent Arvada, Broomfield and Jefferson County, agreed to buy a roughly 3.5-mile long and 300-foot wide sliver of the wildlife refuge — about 100 acres — for $28,000 an acre, a total of $2.8 [...]
Highway 93: Victories, Setbacks and Opportunities
Boulder County has been opposed to the Jefferson Parkway toll road – and its many previous iterations – for more than two decades. Earlier versions called for a road alignment north of Rocky Flats, running through southern Boulder County, then [...]
Council Passes Jefferson Parkway Resolution
UPDATE: Text of the final resolution is posted below. Will the Jefferson Parkway be built or not? Does Boulder have any leverage or not? Is the proposed route of the parkway contaminated with plutonium or not? The December 21, 2010 [...]
Section 16: Not an Opportunity to Miss
Soon after I was elected to the Boulder City Council in 1995, I was dismayed and very concerned when a citizen involved with the Rocky Flats Local Impacts Initiative (RFLII), a congressionally supported group tasked with determining future uses on [...]
Jefferson Parkway Position Statement
The Board of Directors of PLAN-Boulder County adopted the following position statement about the Jefferson Parkway: PLAN-Boulder County opposes the creation of the Jefferson Parkway and will continue to do so. Among our concerns about this project [...]
City to Consider JeffCo Offer
At its December 21, 2010 meeting, the Boulder City Council will consider the Jefferson County Commissioners' offer of $5M toward the purchase of a key open space parcel ("Section 16") in exchange for Boulder's neutrality on the proposed Jefferson [...]
Rocky Flats, Section 16, and the Proposed Jefferson Parkway: Decision Day for Boulder and Boulder County
The Jefferson County Commissioners have asked the City of Boulder and Boulder County to drop their long-standing opposition to the proposed Jefferson Parkway by January 31, in exchange for which JeffCo will put up $5 million toward the purchase of [...]
Boulder’s Elected Leaders: Stuck between a Rock and Hard Place
The prospect of the City of Boulder and Boulder County making a deal with Jefferson County regarding the proposed Jefferson Parkway has alarmed some Jeffco activists who've been fighting the proposed toll road for several years. The Jefferson [...]
