BOULDER — — Boulder County should sell the northernmost portion of the former Cherry Creek Tree Farm to the owners of a nearby organic farm, the county’s Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee recommended on Thursday night.
Under the proposal, which next will be considered by the Board of County Commissioners, Jason and Natalie Condon, the owners of Isabelle Farm, would pay Boulder County $300,000 for an 18-acre parcel of county-owned property southwest of U.S. Highway 287 and Isabelle Road, with the intention of converting the property to a market farm.
Committee member Sue Cass said the county staff’s report of what the Condons have planned for the land “conjures up childhood memories of what a farm should look like.”
A Lafayette woman, however, said during the committee’s public hearing that in light of what Boulder County paid for the overall 73-acre tree farm property — $2.5 million, in 2008 — she questioned whether the county was justified in selling 18 acres of that property for $300,000.
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