Boulder County commissioners agreed Tuesday to drop their longstanding opposition to a proposed toll highway in return for a joint three-government effort to acquire open space to expand the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
Jefferson County’s commissioners, who had OK’d the intergovernmental agreement Tuesday morning, looked on as Boulder County’s commissioners unanimously voted to approve the pact Tuesday afternoon.
Boulder also has long resisted the proposed Jefferson Parkway but — along with Boulder County — has also sought preventing potential future development on about 640 acres of state-owned land immediately southwest of the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge.
Next Tuesday, the Boulder City Council is to consider the compromise that now has been signed by Jefferson and Boulder county officials.
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