Less than a month after opposition to the Jefferson Parkway appeared to be softening, Broomfield officials were meeting Monday with other parkway stakeholders to discuss a lawsuit aimed at blocking the beltway’s progress, which was filed last week by Golden.
Golden filed a suit Thursday in U.S. District Court seeking an injunction to stop a land-transfer deal viewed as the final piece necessary for development to begin on the long-planned regional tollway.
The transfer would exchange a 300-foot-wide strip of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge right of way, formerly part of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility, for a neighboring 617-acre parcel of open space that would link the existing refuge to wild areas to the west called Section 16.
The strip of land is intended to accommodate the Jefferson Parkway, meant to be the final piece of a high-speed beltway around metro Denver.
Superior filed a similar suit last month, also seeking to stop the land transfer.
