Several of Superior’s elected leaders are concerned that the proposed Jefferson Parkway might have an edge over a bikeway proposal along Indiana Street as the federal government considers possible expansion of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
Several Superior trustees, including Mayor Andrew Muckle, attended an open house in Westminster on Wednesday night in which options for adding acreage to the refuge were presented by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service officials.
Trustee Sandy Pennington said it appears that the federal agency already has a “preconceived idea” that the high-speed tollway project — which would connect Colo. 128 in Broomfield with Colo. 93 in Arvada and would run just shy of the town’s southern border — would more effectively lead to an expansion of Rocky Flats.
She said Jefferson County’s willingness to help purchase a 617-acre parcel on the west side of the refuge that could be exchanged for a federal government-owned 300-foot wide strip of land along Indiana Street — critical for a highway corridor — could prove to be the inducement Fish & Wildlife is seeking.
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