EDWARDS – — Ken Marchetti remembers when most of the open space south of Interstate 70 in Edwards was a state rest area. Times have changed.
Officials from Eagle County, the Eagle Valley Land Trust, and a group of homeowners’ associations and the Edwards Metropolitan District Tuesday signed the final documents to add 322 acres of open space to the county’s portfolio. The deal was made possible by the county’s purchase of 160 acres of private land, which is now linked with open space owned by the Homestead and Creamery Ranch homeowners associations.
“It’s very exciting,” Marchetti said. “It’s going to be a huge benefit to Homestead, but also to Edwards and Eagle County.”
Marchetti’s company does administrative and management work for many of the valley’s metro districts, homeowners associations and similar groups, but Marchetti lives in Homestead, so he’s personally pleased to see the deal done.
And it was a complex deal, that required signing four “conservation easements” — contracts that prevent development on property. The deal also required a handful of trail easements, particularly to allow the public to use open space that had previously belonged to the homeowners’ groups.
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